Judy,

Great points. Until we dove into our music awards program, I really had a skewed perspective of what other music awards and even label and publisher screeners go through. I am currently immersed in Female S/S music, by far the deepest genre of music we got this year. Even after 3 rounds of screening, we still have 200 Albums and about 1900 songs in the running for a nomination, and all of them are very well done. It really means that a song has to have "something" extra to stick out above it's strong competition. Sometimes they are intangible things, but often they just reach out to you and grab you. I especially like the songs that literally stop me from whatever I am doing and focus me in on them. That's a comment I hear from label people all the time. If they are on the phone, or writing correspondence, or even having a meeting and a song stops everyone in their tracks to listen, they know that it has that something special.

I don't screen a fraction as many lyrics as I do songs, which is one reason why I am letting the members do the screening/nominating and then turning it over to the final round judges to pick winners. So I am particularly interested to learn, as you and other have also indicated, if my picks here will be in tune with everyone elses. In the regular music awards, I get feedback throughout the process. But in this Lyric Award, I will be just one of the gang here and will learn the results along with everyone else.

Thanks for the note,

Brian

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