Music is an Art

I just realized I haven't written a blog in like a week and a half...that's a long time for me, lol.

I was thinking, literally five seconds ago, about subjects for songs. For much of my songwriting career so far, I constantly wrote about the same emotions, the same people, the same places. Well quite a lot, anyways. And I know why--for that period of time, music was one of the only things I could use to let out my emotions...but they didn't seem to change very much o_O Well I get that too...I always felt kinda insignificant, rejected, misunderstood, the whole deal. So it makes sense that I would write a lot of the same things...

But anyhow. Obviously, a lot of those songs aren't the kind I would want to actually share with the world. Not to mention my style has greatly changed since I started, so that now I look back on oldies and don't like how they sound. Or I never even put them to music so I'm just over them, haha.

Now that I'm in this new stage, I really wanna branch out and write about new things. I wanna stay true to myself and write things that relate to me somehow, or someone I know, but I also wanna totally and completely move away from those stock lyrics I repeated over and over again, with different phrasing. I've already experimented a little. I like what I'm getting.

And I realize that writing a song is an art. An incredibly beautiful portrait can't be painted in 10 minutes. You have to find the right holding on the brush, try out different strokes, search for the right colors, and figure out how to arrange them to precisely fit the image in your mind. Sometimes you can't even imagine the final project.

So, I can't rush. And I don't need to rush. Slow and steady is the way to go. Don't be discouraged, just do it if you love it.