Friday, June 20, 2008

Why is Songwriting SOO Hard?


Ok, I love music, I live music, I breathe music. I make up songs on the guitar and piano almost every time I play either one(which is basically all the time). Why is it so hard for me to write a song? Why does everything sound like a crap Disney song? I'm not saying all Disney music is crap, lots of it's actually good. All of it's better than mine. Anyone else having trouble writing something that doesn't sound like Hannah Montana?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

believe me, ud hv to be a total
a) 5 year old
b) Hannah Montana loserish fan
c) complete moron
to be able to write a Disney-like song

Jeb said...

I have the same problem! I can only play songs on guitar or play them by ear!

Anonymous said...

Songwriting is hard, it's supposed to be hard and if you're hard on yourself that means you demand a lot of yourself and you may come up with something good this way. If your goal is to make a living as a pro songwriter, being able to come up with Hannah Montana-sounding songs is certainly a strength. I challenge anyone who knocks commercial music to themselves write a hit. Best of luck!

Alanna said...

Thankx Luke!
I actually did write one decent song lately. I might post it.

Jeb said...

I agree with Luke all the way! Just like Alanna, I wrote an OKAY song yesterday. it's only 1 minute long, but to me it's beautiful!

Alanna said...

Really? An insturmental or one with lyrics? If it has lyrics, post it! I wanna see!
Synfan writes some pretty good songs. I'm good at parodies(which is NOT her strength-sorry Syn)but she's better at real, normal songs.

Jeb said...

It's an Instrumental. The name of the song is " I Will See You Again ". It's dedicated to my late friend, and that we'll meet again.