Kevin,

You win the cigar. Negative means no hope, no redemption, no positive transformative experience. Negative songs are much harder for an unknown songwriter to get cut, period. Pitching a publisher nothing but downer songs will most likely get that door closed to you. Even if those downer songs are very well written, they will think you can only write easy songs.

Getting a relationship with a publisher is like trying to audition for a gig as a studio guitar player. If you walk in and play four or five slow, easy melodies on the guitar, you won't get the gig.


You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

It's only music.
-niteshift

Mike Dunbar Music