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This is my opinion on the topic of having your songs scrutinized. If you want that then join something like Taxi where pros will evaluate your songs.

My opinion is that this is mostly a hobbyist site.


Yup.... however, TAXI is costly to join... to get the reviews costs even more on a per song basis. They used to give crits on songs that were submitted to a listing that didn't make the cut..... but they had stopped doing that instead simply giving "YES" or "NO" answers leaving you to try to figure out the faults in the rejected song.

Most other song plugging/listings sites don't offer reviews. Yes/no up/down, that's it.

However.... You can join the TAXI forum for free. No membership required. They have a number of forums where you can post tunes for review by members. Compared to most other forums, the reviews you get there will be much more critical from a songwriting POV. The action there is really slow sometimes. I have posted there and gotten one review after 3 days. You get more reviews if you tend to be involved in the forums there. And... quite a few of the folks there are actually writing and recording the songs that are getting signed and cut so they tend to speak from experience. It tends to be a bit more intimidating since there are so many "professional" writers there.

The Nashville Songwriter's Association is another option and also INCLUDES 12 "free" song reviews as part of their membership cost. Membership has gone up to $200/yr now. They also have a forum site similar to the TAXI site, but it's open only to members and most of the folks there are not the big guns who are writing the songs for Nashville, it's filled with folks trying to be the big guns. I haven't been to that forum in quite some time....same with TAXI.

There are also numerous other music related (in one way or another) forums where you can get good advice. I use Cakewalk as do many other folks here, and as a result, I hang out there as well. The advice you get on a given site is generally more specific to the product the company sells. SO on Cakewalk forums, it's not about the writing so much as it is about the recording process. If you want good recording and production critiques, join one of those forums and there's always a "User Showcase" for your songs in each one of them.

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