Marc, I await yer spankin'!

Bill, I wanted to say that earlier in this thread, you said, "It's not constructive to tell people their song is good if it isn't." Something of that nature. Who decides whether a song is good or not? Who's opinion is worth more? Brian says, "if the song MOVES YOU..."

Glynda Duncan's "Step to the Side" moved me A LOT!!! It moved every woman I played it for as well. Curiously, men hated it...because it made them out to be assholes. MAB and I argued about the song for 2 days. He obviously knows a lot more about songwriting than I do, but the song moved me so much, I couldn't let it go. I STILL believe in the song, and so do my friends. If we go by Brian's criteria, the song is a hit. If we go by MAB's criteria, it's not commercially viable. The thing is, people here, for the most part, are JUST PLAIN FOLKS, we don't deal with publishers and record companies every day. So when we evaluate a song, we're probably asking ourselves, "Does the song MOVE ME?" In that case, and in that scenario, seeing that someone told someone else they have a good song, even if YOU don't thinks it's a good song, is all subjective. You may think the song sucks scissors, someone else may think it's GREAT and NOT just be a back-patter, like me with the "Step to the Side" song. Sure, I love my Sister G, but I don't go on about EVERY song she writes. This one was very special and NO ONE can tell me that it's not! smile Who's to say that you are more qualified than I am to judge (at this particular site and under these particular circumstances)?

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