john

I don't fear for it. Music has fads and trends. At points deep and meaningful lyrics dominated. At others melody trumped to the point words were sometimes not used during significant parts of the song (BebopaLula). Other trends have been beat based. There have always been creative people in the mix, and factory music has often dominated. Have a listen to the likes of Sia and you get immense talent vocally, melodically and the lyrics aren't too shabby. The trouble is all the people who have sought to bypass hard work learning anything, lyrical or musical. They rely on loop libraries to produce combinations... quickly. Give it a few years and people will be flooding music sites with crap a Microsoft algorithm wrote for them. Few people will know how to play instruments to a good standard, at least as we currently know them, because they are not instant enough. This is tied up in the millennial generation obsession for instant, but shallow, gratification. Fame based on little talent and the grand celebration of mediocrity. Like all fashions it will come around. People will get bored into looking for something more challenging... and that will spark a drive for quality and a depth of meaning

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lol, I will check it on my mobile... I used a computer to check.

I just added two tags to your topic Peggy I used edit topic and simply added all-one-word-tags to the tags field. I ended each tag, including the last, using a comma.... job done. Anyone else having a tag issue? I will now try adding two more tags using the + button in the tag area

Thanks guys and you are very welcome Tom

Hi and welcome to Songstuff Milan. Good to meet you

The best download time I got was 111, average was about 85. 59 was about the lowest. Ping time varied hugely. Upload varied from ~8.5 to ~12

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Hey hey, welcome to Songstuff! I think you will find plenty of new sisters and brothers here. Without new discoveries and learning life would have no sense of direction, no sense of progress. I for one love challenging my understanding. That no matter how deep rooted a belief, things can come along and turn it on it's head. Unsettling and wonderful all at the same time.

Hi and welcome to Songstuff Terri!

Hi Gang May 2017 be all you hope it to be. I wish you and yours all the very best of wishes. Have a happy and safe New Year celebration! Cheers John

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Hey Kezmo, welcome to Songstuff What's your music making set up? Pleasse consider inviting your musical and lyricist friends to join... like any community we rely on our members to spread the word about Songstuff, our articles and site features. After all, the more the merrier!

Hey Ms Hops, welcome to Songstuff Good to meet you Pleasse consider inviting your musical and lyricist friends to join... like any community we rely on our members to spread the word about Songstuff, our articles and site features. After all, the more the merrier!

Hey Steve, Welcome to Songstuff! Good to have you aboard. You'll no doubt find many like minded songwriters on Songstuff. They're a good bunch too. Please consider inviting your musical buddies to join up too. Whatever each of us can do to help promote and grow the community is generally a good thing.

Time to get hip wit da lingo man lols I am so hip it hurts

Hi and welcome to Songstuff! we've deleted many of the very old off-topic posts, but I will be interested to see what threads you resurrect! Some were certainly "of their time" while others are more or less constant topics, as relevant now as they were then. Good stuff! cheers john

Some very nice comments. Heartening to know! Thank you! I really want to rebuild our active member base. It helps our community in so many ways. If you can help in any way, it would be greatly appreciated! Be active welcoming members, helping them, starting and answering interesting topics. Share our articles and our main boards whenever you can. Like, share comment on our social media portals. Recruit, by all means, but also be as active in repeating and answering. Activity breeds activity. In this, you can all help yourselves, the community and the site. moshpit wise, I feel a poll coming on!

Indeed, and you are very welcome. I spend less time front of house than I would like, but more than I have at certain points. The mods and other volunteer staff help in so many ways, moderating is fairly obvious, but there are those who write articles, update database entries,, tidy and clean, create graphics and video, and market and promote Songstuff elsewhere. It all helps keep the site ticking over. Loads of good upcoming stuff that should enhance the community significantly. It should be fun. Of course the members are the community. They keep the site active, and keep adding interesting and challenging content. They also help maintain the tone of the site. Many thanks one and all! Funny to think Songstuff is now 16 years old! Eek! Loads of new upcoming stuff to keep the site nice and fresh too.

Hi and welcome to Songstuff. I haven't seen your other posts, but Tom's talking about flooding the boards... something that is really only an issue on the critique forums. Obviously everybody wants their songs to be visible. A member flooding the boards causes more and more topics to push other member's topics off the first page. Yes it has happened, more than once, and no members don't tend to like it. So we have guidelines about board flooding on the critique forums. We want you to get the best out of the boards and I know if I were you I would like to know up front if I was potentally treading on toes.

Good stuff Priyan. I'm looking forward to hearing some of your songs.

Hi Priyan, welcome to Songstuff! good to have you aboard. A great series of interviews by Prashant so far. I wasn't expecting Mahesh to mention Songstuff, or me! It was a nice surprise.