Originally Posted by carthorsemusic
This guy totally took your advice and actually named his song "radio friendly song" and it's not well produced, not particularly good yet in slightly more than four minutes blew up your concept of the music business and how it works for all time. sort of a nastier version of the "united breaks guitars. tune. once you listen to this song you will not be able to seriously write and pitch another cookie cutter song. Oh, he's pushing 100 million views on youtube and did it for free.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Gs4xGw1Eg&feature=channel_page





I think we all write cookie cutter songs, from time to time (not sure, but I think I wrote something very similar to those that satire song mocks.. hmmm, I just hope it never left my drawer). Especially if we have listened a lot to radio, and some bad melody snippets are stuck as 'inspiration'.

The songwriters responsability is, to NOT try to push those badbad songs into the markets. You actually risk getting a cut! laugh

There's a saying "Be careful what you wish for..." that I believe apply in these cases..

Another one is "Don't aim too low - you risk hitting excactly what you aim for".. wink

And.. "I'd rather be a good failure than a bad success".. (thats my own)..