JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum So Where Does Your Song Rank On Ourstage?

Brian
You said you don't think my songs, my singing, or my recordings are good enough to compete. I can live with that. I don't like a lot of people's songs.
I would hate to think the only thing being judged is vocal ability. Then again I hear some singers on there that are pretty bad, LOL.
You suggested I might use a professional for my songs and see how much difference it makes. Well I took your advice, it didn't help much. So I can only conclude the song itself was not as good as I, and most people I talked to, thought it was.

Oh! Those people were Song_U, The session players who did the song, Barbara Cloyd, and a few others in the Biz.
Why it has not done well on Ourstage is still a concern, and a mystery, for me.
I have been watching Ourstage very closely to try to figure out what is happening.
I have a few theories but I will keep them to myself. I don't want to look like I am complaining.

I would like the ability to question things without always being told to quit complaining. I think I have a right to ask why something is the way it is. I ask why we cannot be told how many times our song is judged. You say it will help the cheaters. I don't see how so it is a difference of opinion.

I think it smells like the Government saying that information is classified, it's a matter of National security.

You said I should be more interested in how many people actually seek out the song and play it than how many times it is judged. OK I did that. I was watching numbers of plays versus the ranking of one of my songs.
Well, to my surprise the song was getting played more times than some of the songs in the top spots. Now I have to figure out why the song has not done better in the rankings. People like it enough to seek it out and listen to it but not enough to vote for it? I find that strange. I would like to understand that.

My questioning these things don't mean I am complaining. It means I want to know why.

Some folks will sit back and watch things happen and never question it. Some folks won't. I won't. When something seems out of whack I question it.

Whether or not JPF has chosen Country songs as winners should have nothing to do with what you like or don't like. At least I hope it doesn't. I would hope that the contests and awards were being judged and determined by JPF Members, not by you.
That is what makes JPF such a special place. You allow the members to decide things.

I won't argue with you about what you did or did not say. It is only my impression and it may be far from correct. But it is my impression non the less. I can't put it in "quotes" because there is no exact quote. So maybe I should keep my impressions to myself.
In the meantime I am going to try to figure out what it is I have to do to move to the next level in my persuit of writing a hit Country song. And to be honest I think I am doing pretty good for an old man who didn't write his first song until he was 58 years old. And that's only been five years.