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22Jul/120

Don’t Finish Working On Something Just Because You Want To Post It

That's what I'm learning from working on my newest song.  I'm REALLY glad I didn't just post the song when I said I was going to.  Honestly, the work I've done to it in the last month or so has actually changed the song sooooooo much more for the better!

I keep thinking as well that if I HAD put it up a while back... I'd be sooooo unhappy with it because I would have just wished I could have changed all these things on it.  So really taking my time with it was just the best decision ever.

So I've been working on this song for a about a year... maybe a little bit more than that.  It started off as just a stupid filler song because I didn't have anything big that I wanted to work on.

Then I really got going with the wish upon a hero song last summer early fall and I've kinda worked on some other songs here and there.  I also have this other fun little song that's really jazzy and uses some 7th chords and such which I actually wanted to finish before this song...  I'll work on that after this song though... and I'm going to be collaborating on a song that I wrote 2 weeks ago... almost wrote, I still have a second verse to write...

But any-who back to this song... yea... I mean I was just going to post it as is a while ago, like months ago... but I wasn't happy with the sound.  I decided to keep working on it.  I'm glad that I did.  But as I was saying it was just this stupid filler song... I really didn't think much of the song when I finished writing it.  And as I've worked on it... I just think it's got a fun sound.  It's ridiculously catchy and got a catchy chorus to sing along to.

I'm really thinking it could be pretty popular.  When I say popular, I mean compared to the normal couple hundred plays I normally get.  I mean I'm thinking this thing could get a few thousand plays!  We'll see.  It's no "call me maybe".  But it's got a good hot beat to it.

Usually I just kind of post things because I'm ready to work on something new.  Like I just kinda get to the point where I just want to be done with it and start working on my next project.  I've been really sticking with this song though and really taking it WAY past when I normally edit songs.  I don't think I've ever worked on a song as long as I have this one.  I'm fairly confident that it's nearly done now... I mean REALLY REALLY done.  I won't be posting it right away though.  I'm going to upload it to CDBaby first so it posts on my website to stream for free at the same time it posts for pay.  So people don't have to buy it if they don't care to, but this way there's a whole "release date" type of thing.  I always see people doing these hyped up release dates for things...

I figured... I'll give that a try!  Why not?  I think this is the perfect song to do that with.  It's just catchy and kinda silly and stupid.  I'm pretty sure I'm at the thousands of hours mark worked on this song... it's just crazy talk.  But I've come this far so I'm going to see it through.

But I think the takeaway is definitely that some things can be finished quickly on a deadline... but other things... well they just take time...  And sometimes there isn't a rhyme or reason to it...

Like when I start a song I can never predict which ones will actually be popular, or which ones will actually take me a long time to finish, or which ones I may never actually finish and just put in the scrap heap folder.  Sometimes I think a song sucks... and then years later it turns into a great song!  Sometimes I think a song is amazing when I first write the very first hook... and nothing ever comes of it.

This is one of those songs I didn't think much of while writing it... but now I'm kind of actually pretty excited to finally finish it and post it online!

So yea I'm sooooooooo seriously anxious/excited to post this thing like NOW... but I just want to do it right.  So it will be up soon... just have to make sure it's all perfect.

Sometimes certain things just aren't ready until they are ready... sometimes that means taking a lot of time to finish it.  I think that's what I'm trying to say.

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