Critics have the easiest job, for it is easy to be critical, regardless of any logic or reason. Thick Skin, ignore, if you can, and something an old hand at success in the music bidness long before there was top 40 rock 'n roll, etc. once told me, "No publicity is bad publicity, it is all just publicity!" comes to mind.

Another thing he once said was, "There's always room for the best."

I think the one common denominator across the board, regardless of genre, is tenacity. Those that stick with it and when they find that something isn't working are able to change whatever is needed and keep on working hard at not only the composition but also the submission of compositions, handling the cloud of rejections well enough to get up tomorrow and rinse and repeat without succumbing to the negative side of the thing will likely improve their chances greatly.

So my advice is simple enough here: If getting "signed" is your goal, set aside Internet Forums and spend as much of your time as you can working whatever you find to be necessary to achieve that goal.


--Mac