From my perspective a lot of songs are written and recorded by folks like us all over the world, they never see the light of day other than a few hundred listens on a website. Why? I feel it is basically for a few simple reasons.

1. The market is flooded with that sort of thing, there are thousands of them, how does one shine through?

2. They are not commercially marketed and therefore only partially heard, by a select few that actually are there to promote themselves for the most part and not you. I remember being on acid planet a few years back, and to get listens you had to give listens, the more songs you reviewed the more reviews you got, but it was never in your favor, you could review 30 and get 10 back. It was also very clicky, if you were one of the "cool" artist, or flavor of the month you would stay at the top of the heap for ever.

3. Some are badly recorded, performed, and even just sang. I have heard folks have a full on website and every song on it is badly sang, with pitchy vocals and mostly off key.

4. The songs themselves are sub par, lyrics are maybe clever to a point, but very unmusically written, badly tied together, and very over personal. People IMO want to be reminded of things, taken somewhere, or amused by a song, and if the song is only familiar to you, then it will not be interesting to most. Bad cliques and hooklines, poor phrasing, can kill a song quickly.

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