Good Article Marc and thanks for posting it.
Songs are So Subjective to people and that is the way it is.
Art is in the eye of the beholder. I TRY and be fair and objective but in the end for me it is the melody that grabs me first....always has and always will. Even a great story isn't enough for me without the Great Melody.

I watched the Billboard awards the other night and was mortified at the lack of melody in all the songs. Some of the women could sing but the songs were terrible and I was wondering why they couldn't find better songs....I was really dismayed at Drake singing that Rap Crap on the water in Vegas. I thought he was better than that. So Many Great Songs and Songwriters in the world and they were all singing crappy songs.....I WONDER WHY? Maybe they insist on singing songs that they wrote. I see in Country Music now ALL the new Hunks and Chicks are supposedly one of the writers on the songs. NOW In my heart I know that they probably just sat in the room with some Pros from Music Row and THEY really wrote the songs. Oh Well what can you do.....I posted a song recently on facebook where I used to play in Central Park and pretend I was a Star....Also posted another one that got a lot of comments called THE MUGGER & ME...where a guy came to mug me and after seeing I had no money and was homeless felt sorry for me and became my manager.....lol....Just a silly story but many could relate to me about this song. I have found as an OLD Singer Songwriter that I get more personal about my story and write songs about ME and tell my story I seem to be getting a lot more Fans. They like to know how I wrote a song or how I came up with the idea so I've been doing that a lot more...Story behind the song....SO that's MY STORY and I'm sticking to it....LOL...Barry...

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