Hit and Miss

The minority of my readers who can't stand it if I feel the slightest pleasure for even the shortest amount of time will have to indulge me at the moment. I'm thinking of how my detractors didn't think I would survive to the present to share the details of my experience of the last few years to a large group of trusting online readers. That's because they told the world that I was Hitler and that I was a child molester and that I stole all my work and that I had a 'signed dick'. This misinformation came to most people through trusted channels in the media or 'through the grapevine'. It's quite miraculous that I survived the intense, bitter hate of the whole world for such a long time. You'd think that I wouldn't have lasted five minutes on a public street with such an offensive public image, but here I am. And I can't help but chuckle over it. Sorry. I was conversing with a friend from my building a few weeks ago who raised an interesting point. She said that if those who put great effort into stealing other people's songs would simply put that effort into their own work, they would produce their own hits. On the surface this sounds logical but my personal experience of authoring several hit songs contradicts it somewhat. My experience has taught me that hit songs are more the product of one's time than of one's labor. Look at Under My Umbrella. I wrote it so fast that I couldn't even remember writing it. But in retrospect, given Beyonce's success with it, no one will argue that it didn't fit beautifully into the time I wrote it. My effort was largely irrelevant to its popularity. Since an artist has no control over the time in which he lives, he has little or no control over the popularity of his work. I can offer no advice except to try to express your true heart in your work. That way, even if your songs don't sell, you can still consider them a personal success. As for making money in the entertainment business, I can't help you with that one either. I've heard a lot of talk about 'establishing connections' and 'developing an image' but I never hear a word about having talent. I think that talent is all an artist should essentially need to be successful. To say that an artist's success depends on other things is to insult all talent - not just me. And I would hesitate to buy any music or DVD's that came from an industry that insults talent.
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