By the way, Songwriters are hardly second class citizens in the world of organizations. Artists are CLEARLY the second class citizens. NSAI is a songwriter org. SGA is a songwriter org. NSA was a songwriter org. Muses Muse is a songwriter community. Those are/were the top dogs in my opinion outside of JPF. We were the first large org. to even notice that Artists ALSO needed the same type of support that an NSAI offered to songwriters. That said (as I did in the interview) we're ALSO by far the largest and most active SONGWRITER org in the world. We do both. We do it for free. It's shocking for someone in JPF to feel shortchanged. Even within our gigantic music awards we added a specific category SOLELY for the lyricist community here. You can't be considered unless you come on here and post your lyric on the Message Boards. We don't do that for the artists on the MP3 board do we?

Read my article in songwriters market (my 4th article in 5 years there, more than anyone else in their history). It's solely about songwriting and how to break in from anywhere. Suggesting I've somehow abandoned or relegated the songwriting community to second class is just plain wrong. Our biggest awards at the music aware are the Male/Female Artist of the Year Awards, the Lyricist of the Year Award, Songwriter of the Year Award, Album of the Year Award and Song of the Year Award. Half of those are for Songwriters and half of those are for artists. I don't notice any short shrift for songwriters there.

Brian

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