Here's a topic - How good are you at taking advice about and receiving input on your songwriting, if you're honest?
I'm asking because up until I joined this site (which was very recently, I might add), I was quite convinced that this was a discipline that I absolutely aced - Turns out that this was something of a delusion.
With music, I'm fairly good at it and have been challenging myself at it, on SoundCloud and elsewhere. Usually, I've been able to make changes that collaborators have suggested, or incorporate stuff they've done - Even if it has turned my original idea completely upside down. (Within reason, of course!) More often than not, this has turned out well - Precisely because the end result was unexpected!
However, when it comes to lyrics…
I've posted a couple of lyrics for critique here and have received some decidedly sage advice. But when I try to process this advice and rewrite, I run into trouble. It's not that I find the suggested corrections or additions wanting in any way, it's just that it's not my text - Not my thoughts or feelings. To a surprising extent, this bothers me and seems somehow dishonest.
Is there anyone else out there that suffers from this rather absurd malady?