I am new to this forum, and I would like to say that BIAB has enabled me to make some songs that I think are quite good.

I have issues though, and I need to discuss some of them with the general anonymous public before I explode.

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I write my songs, you know, by starting with what I want to say, crafing the lyrics and an accompanying melody. Using experiences, Open Office Writer, a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and bottle of Bacardi.

Then I add a song form, progression, rhythm, basic instrumentation. BIAB is just great for this part.

My lyrics are merely stuff I wanna say. Stuff I feel, places I've been, women I've loved.

But I am a bad vocalist, which everyone would concur, if they heard me sing.

My instrumental abilities are not that great either.

Plus I am 50 something, and not really anything to look at, like a performer needs to be.

So do those limitations automatically dis-qualify a person from having their songs considered by people who have the capability to perform them good?

In my opinion, they shouldn't matter. The song should matter.

Self-interest prevents people from working together, unless there is for-sure dollars coming.

The reason I ask is that experiences have really discouraged me recently.

I feel like all the adequate to excellent instrumentalists and vocalists out there have all agreed to some unwritten law that they will all collude to ignore home-made music, if it is created by some unknown who cannot perform it very well.

I realize that this is just a big neurotic imagining, but, damn, it hurts.

Even people I've known for a long time, you know, instrumentalists and vocalists, don't seem to want anything to do with my songs. I mean, they don't even want to HEAR them.

There are always the professional 'studios' that will be glad to smile at you and tell you how great you are and how, for a mere $1000 they will fully produce your song, but I'm not able to afford that. And I wouldn't want to if I could afford it.

The fact is, is that if a handsome young man, with a really good voice, like Kip Moore or Tim McGraw, for instance, sang my song, it would be a big hit (imho).

But there is absolutelty no way to have them consider it, unless I can fork out 1-2K for a demo.

And for the general anonymous public to hear, consider, or like it, I need a singer and a band which I don't have.

So...

Who has a solution/recommendation/trollish shootdown to my quandry?

Now...

Having said all that, I would really feel dumb if people now say: "OK lets hear these songs, then." out of sympathy.

Lets just discuss this issue without any specific example. I'm sure there are others here on this very forum, users of BIAB, who have created stuff that they think is good, but for one reason or another, will never see it all the way through to being performed in front of real live people.