Originally Posted by Jody Whitesides
Everyone has their failures. I wrote a jingle for an organic soda company. They loved it. The president and CEO loved it. They wanted to start a whole marketing campaign around it. I said great. Then they wanted me to come up with the commercials and have the director of my award winning video put it all together.

I said sure. I'll talk to him about it. At this point I brought in my lawyer to start talking licenses and numbers for costs. The CEO suddenly changed his mind. He had this notion that I would do all of this for free. That I would pay for his commercials out of my pocket.

End result is, I said no. I didn't get angry about it. I moved on.

That's a good article you found. It shows one of the niches some of my music has found. It's not the only niche. It's a good point to bring up. Every song has a niche. The writer should know what it is. That is part of knowing the business. It's not something to get angry about.

Other niches that I'm in include: film, tv, film trailers, video games. I also do the whole artist thing. I write some material under pseudonyms. I do that to keep certain material to certain markets. I don't get angry if something doesn't work. I learn from it, change for the next time around, then move on. I don't stop.

One thing I'm taking from DRS's post is that he has had issues with the business aspect of a venture. He took it personally. Got angry. Got bitter. Got upset at a non fan. This is not the right attitude to cultivate in order to become a success.

That is my $0.02 which is more than anyone gets from Pandora or Spotify.


Even itunes wasnt the biggest thing yet at this time. Im not sure what woulda happened had it been on spotify, probably mostly listens, no buy.

At the time I was mad, and then afterwards i figured what the hell is the difference? Nobody asked me to write the song, how could somebody announce the song and say "heres a great song about this game" but then make people buy it to hear it...they wont. it aint THAT important.

I dont dislike niches, as I said I have three at least albums of sports related song that ive yet to record.

I learned alot about it.
On music sites people get flooded with music, you have a hard time being seen, but put your music in places where people dont get flooded with music and it stands out.

I had a sportswriter send me an email and tell me I nailed what the game means. That made me feel really good,

Didnt pay.

Not closing the door on it, I have plans, but youdo have to decide if thats the artist you want to be.