Ron,

I'm not sure that I agree with the premise here, or rather it would be more accurate to say that I'm not all that interested in songs that strive to be too craftsman like.

I fully realize that I'm an odd duck when it comes to the whole musical world but I find myself in a severe state of recoil whenever I can tell that someone is trying to write a clever song or please the masses or do anything that one is generally supposed to do. It literally makes me shudder.

I'm only drawn to those songs where I can genuinely tell that the person writing and singing them truly doesn't give a flying flip about what anybody else might think of their song but is writing from a place of complete originality and Independence, even fierce Independence. It is the only attitude that I genuinely respect. Now maybe that artist is only getting two people in the world to listen to their songs but still that is the only kind of songs that I can stomach. If I can tell that someone is striving to be commercial, whatever that means, I just can't listen to it for more than 5 to 10 seconds.

I enjoy listening to most songs on the forum for the most part because I know they're being created by real human beings and there's a chance for me to interact with them and the entire process.

I find it next to impossible to listen to anything commercial on any channel or source because I just don't like it, and I also am not into idolatry. I remember hating American idol the first time I saw it and was sitting there praying that Simon Cowell would burst into flames. Yes I know I'm a weird guy. I admit it.

To me the most important part of a song is something that can't be taught and it has something to do with an outrageous independence of spirit and also a kind of bravery or quirkiness.

I enjoy listening to songs on the forum because it's a quirky place full of quirky people and I admire that.

Again, and I know this probably puts me in a very small group, but the only thing that will usually make me listen to a song until the end is if I detect a sense of outrageous Independence on the part of the artist.

The second I detect commercial I hit the off switch.

But that's just me.

David Snyder
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