Suburban,

I think you miss another point. The "trend" for newer and uninformed writers are just this kind of song. The depressing, crying in your beer song is what most writers write. That is another reason they are unsuccsesful, because the general listening public don't realate to them anymore. You are essentially telling them something they already know, and are not doing it in anyway they haven't seen on millions of television movies, read in a million books, magazine articles, or seen for the most part in their lives, or heard in other songs that didn't work.

In the world we are in with so many songs and so much output, it doesn't have so much to do as "trends" as finding a way to do something different that people are not innundated in their lives. That is what your song does. Says the same thing, in pretty much the same way with the same information that is said continually.

What you are doing here is a trend. For the 1970's. It was a very popular format for songs. But as I said, that era has passed.

So you can audition other vocalists if you want. There are a lot of people that spend a lot of money trying to get something "just right." Most of the time, the idea wasn't there to begin with. In my opinion, which is just that, this is one of those.

My suggestion to you is what I make to pretty much anyone I work with. Get out of the river of bitterness. It doesn't sell anymore.

MAB

Last edited by Marc Barnette; 07/03/11 12:59 PM.