In this short panel, speakers emphasize that songwriting is the most critical factor for an independent artist’s success. They advise constantly writing better songs, never being satisfied with current work, and persisting through creative blocks. While acknowledging the importance of performance, recording, and promotion, they argue that without strong songs, all other efforts are futile. Additionally, they stress creating music from the heart rather than following trends, asserting that authentic, personal expression is the only truly original path.
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Songwriting is, like, super important.
Well, that could parlay, you know, kind of into the next. Like, the final question here is, like, if you could give one piece to an independent artist that's out there right now, what would it be? Ken.
Write better songs all the time. Like, just don't be satisfied with your. Your, you know, your product. When you're writing good stuff, just keep going. Like, don't rest on your laurels. Like, songwriting is, like, super important. You could be the greatest promoter in the world and. And have the greatest producer in the world and the best band name and the best logo and be great life. But if your songs aren't really good, it's never really going to go anywhere. Like, you have to write really good songs, be good at it. And when it's not happening, you know, you. You either take a break, pull the plug, find other people, get something to be inspired about, but when you are writing, like, right, I keep going because, I mean, that's the key, I think, is. Is having great songs. And obviously, yeah, you need to be able to play them well live and record them and promote and do all those things. But, I mean, songwriting is number one and one A and one B. I mean, you.
Have to have.
The shit, right?
It's got to be. You got to have that product that's. That's competitive out there, you know, that, that, that, that people here and they go, whoa, what is that?
You know, I would only add one thing to that, and that would be do shit from your heart.
Yeah.
Never mind trends, never mind all that crap that's going to get you nowhere. I don't care what anyone says, even if it does get you somewhere, it's temporary. So everything from the heart, because whatever you're thinking and feeling, that's original, there's not another you anywhere in the universe, as far as I know. So whatever comes out of you is original. So never mind what everybody else is doing, that's just garbage.
