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I've been following this thread out of curiosity.


I'm not sure how to phrase this delicately so I won't. Some comments....wow....


Wow? How so? What moved you, opened your eyes or shocked you? Just curious smile


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What it boils down to is this.


It really doesn't matter whether the song is a real life experience or not. It doesn't matter if you have lived it, if you have seen others live it, or if you fabricated the entire thing in your creative mind. If you can write a good song from it, that's all that matters. Folks who say they have to live it to write it and put the emotion into it, well, most of that is an excuse for not writing, as I see it.

In fact I think that if you rely on your personal experiences only, as the source for your songwriting grist, you will have a harder time becoming a good writer because there's generally not enough personal experience material to choose from to write a wide variety of songs.

I've never been a cowboy...I don't care to be one.... but I could set down and think about the ones I have known.... we used to play in some cowboy bars, I listened to the stories that they told and from that.... I wrote "Where does a cowboy go".... didn't need to live it or experience it first hand...... but I can write a convincing song about it.


Agreed BUT it was never about this.

It was about if others THOUGHT the song was about your life events. It can be embarrassing at times if people think your song was you, or something you wrote about. That was/is the discussion smile

Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.