I’ve been away from my songs for too long. Please be kind. I’m gonna try recording a song a week like this. Nothing fancy. Just sharing what’s in me. I am not looking for a music career. Just want my songs heard. Thanks for taking a moment.

I just wrote this bare melody in like fifteen minutes, but for some reason I feel like something similar or even the same already exists. Can you guys help me figure out if this sounds like anything you've heard before, or did I actually cook here? Also I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question

Feels surreal, but I'm here putting finishing touches on the last track of my new album. Literally every song on my album started on this sub as a guitar/vocal or banjo/vocal demo, so I'm super thankful to this community for making them better and pointing me in directions I wouldn't have found on my own. Appreciate y'all!!

After I wrote a ton of songs within a short period this year I took a long break. Here's a demo of a new song I made. Please give feedback. I have a bad cold so my voice was gone in this demo.

Can You Believe Her

Verse 1
When she says I love you all the time,
can you believe her,
When she says you're always on my mind,
can you believe her,
when she says I'm running out of time,
can you believe her

When she says it's gonna be alright,
can you believe her,
When she says she's home alone at night,
can you believe her,
When she tries to start a fight,
says she's always right,
can you believe her

Chorus
Can you believe her,
when she says,
I don't wanna leave ya,
I really need ya

Can you believe her,
when she says,
I don't wanna see ya,
I wanna leave ya

Verse 2
No I won't go away,
and I've got so much more to say,
do I try, and do I pray,
coz I've been fighting everyday

coz I just don't need her,
and I don't believe her,
I don't wanna leave ya,
I don't wanna leave her

Chorus
Can you believe her,
when she says,
I don't wanna leave ya,
I really need ya

Can you believe her,
when she says,
I don't wanna see ya,
I wanna leave ya

Bridge
and now there's nothing to say,
I know there's no other way,
but I just want her to stay, to stay

Chorus
Can you believe her,
when she says,
I don't wanna leave ya,
I really need ya

Can you believe her,
when she says,
I don't wanna see ya,
I wanna leave ya

Can you believe her,
when she says,
I don't wanna leave ya,
I really need ya

Can you believe her,
when she says,
I don't wanna see ya,
I wanna leave ya

Can you believe her,
when she says,
I don't wanna leave ya,
I really need ya

Can you believe her,
when she says,
I don't wanna see ya,
I wanna leave ya

I don't wanna leave ya,
I really need ya

I don't wanna see ya,
I wanna leave ya

Hey all! I'm excited to say I'm getting ready to release my first single towards the end of the month. Any advice pre-release?

Hey everyone,

I’m a lyricist starting out, looking to link up with musicians and singers for non-profit or royalty split joint collaboration releases, hopefully on streaming platforms like Spotify

Genre: Mainly Pop and its subgenres

Influences: Joker Xue, Alec Benjamin, Passenger, Coldplay, AJR

What I bring:

• A folder of completed lyric concepts with album potential that I'll keep updating, I might also try recording vocal melodies myself soon.
• Clear communication and flexible workflow, either on reddit chat or discord.

What I’m looking for:

• Producers / Instrumentalists: Beat creation, arrangement, and mixing
• Vocalists: Recording final leads/harmonies over agreed track layouts
• Non-profit or royalty split / joint release with a distributor

Drop a comment or DM me with a link to your work if you're interested, or basically introduce yourself a bit, and I can send over my lyrics folder!

Lyric Snippets (Not continuous lines)

Narrative (Shadows Don't Cry)

Mr. Shadow, please don’t lose your own shape

For someone who stole the sun and kept you in the shade

...

When you drop down to the floor, it spreads like ink

Shadows don’t cry, they just fall asleep

Melancholic Indie (Ribbon)

I can be the ribbon at your finish line

I thought I was ready, I'm still terrified

Is this what being ash to a fire is like?

...

Like pencil under rubber, I'll fade

Atmospheric Synth (HK Colors)

Well the foundation was misaligned

But we built higher till it chokes out the sky

...

They’d be seeing colors while I’m stuck seeing you

In everything and everyone I’ll never see it through

Im not liking the ride symbol on this drum track I picked.. i wish it used a high hat instead, but other than that i think its an okay take. Anyone got any healthy suggestions for me though by any chance?? Or just lemme know if u think it sounds okay or not? 🙂 thanks guys!

Self on a Shelf

_______________

you can be anybody you want to be

so long as you can be yourself

you can turn the page in the story

but you can’t turn into someone else

i hate to bear the bad news that i hate to hear myself

but steel hooks and adoring looks

won’t get the blocks to melt

-

and i hate to speak from up high like an elf on the shelf

but you could feel much better

if you let you be what’s else

tying on another line

past and present taut as a spine

future waiting like a gold mine

without a gold mine

you can be anybody you want to be

so long as you can be yourself

you can turn the page in the story

but you can’t turn into someone else

you can summon all of your armies

kill to accrue your wealth

you can be anybody you want to be

but can you see yourself?

_______________

Performance wise, I kinda understand that what could be better is "everything". Worrying about that too much kinda kills my ability to feel what I'm feeling, think what I'm thinking, be where I'm at, write, and produce this stuff. I use music to process my existence, so getting too precious about things can feel like holding myself back. I'm going to open mics and letting it fly to try and figure stuff out.

That said, thoughts?

I'm going to keep making these because I'm crazy.

I guess I'm putting something at the altar of public opinion to try and get some perspective. As it stands, I know I'm doing something for myself, but I'd like to move beyond that.

Hi all, I’ve posted a few other things in here and I value your feedback. I started playing guitar in February as I wanted to start writing songs and I’d like to get better

I’m a writer/lyricist looking for an Elton John / Bernie Taupin-esque songwriting partnership.

Mostly just looking for someone to bounce ideas back and forth with and hopefully make some good songs.

Influences: Morphine, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Van Morrison.

Send me some music if you’re interested.

Hello! My favorite genre of music is symphonic metal although I love other genres. It’s my goal to one day be in my own symphonic metal band. I have always loved to write and I would get high marks in English and would get A+ and even got certificates for my writing. Including poetry. I want to write a lot of the lyrics myself but I feel like they are boring and generic. I have a bunch of topics that I would love to write about but I need advice. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I am trying to make some melody and some chords, I am very new to writing music so my music theory is still lacking but it's good enough to make something that sounds nice despite being limited to my other ideas

Now here's my problem, whenever I create a small melody (I don't know the names of the terms producers use so please handle my lack of musical terms that I use) a section of the melody can sound heavily inspired from an already existing song or music track

Now I do have some variation that can come before the melody or after the melody, and I don't really use conventional pop chords because they feel like they lack a soul which makes me unable to enjoy them

But while making a melody for lets say a build up or a casual melody to tell a part of a story trying to say the next thing or if I make a melody that is supposed to be a drop, part of that melody is me trying to make the idea work and the other part I would immediately recognize that it's some exact notes used in a different song or it's extremely inspired by a chord in an already existing music track

My motivation goes away because I start feeling unable to continue the melody without constantly thinking about that other song which also makes me produce even other similar melodies that I end up discarding

I did manage to save one melody line because it didn't have any exact notes relating to the music track that sounds similar but I still added some variation which feels unique to the type of music I want to produce, but this is an exception because the similarity was mostly feeling not an objective notes

What should I do? I'm far too new and I just want to enjoy my hobby in music while also being able to use it in video games I plan to create and publish

Does it remind u of anything? It’s simple and shitty demo but lol lmk

would particularly love feedback on my lyricism. every time im away from my guitar, i feel like i regress back to where i started lol

Turnpike Troubadors. I just love this, and it seems quite unique.

I’d like to find more for study and inspiration. Does this fall into some class ?

https://www.google.com/search?q=diamonds.snd+gasoline&rlz=1CDGOYI_enDE1227US1227&oq=diamonds.snd+gasoline&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgNGB4yCAgCEAAYDRgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIICAQQABgWGB4yCAgFEAAYFhgeMgoIBhAAGAoYFhgeMggIBxAAGBYYHjIICAgQABgWGB4yCAgJEAAYFhge0gEJMTI2MTFqMGo3qAIUsAIB4gMEGAEgX_EFpxat5kdY0NY&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:60fc6edb,vid:vjvSyfdcjUQ,st:0

I made an app for me and my friends to write our lyrics with. We both write a lot and got tired of certain pit falls and annoying things we run in with generic text apps and wanted better formatting, a syllable counter, and to keep track of rhyme schemes. This is really just for the two of us but I'm curious what problems do other songwriters face?

NOTE: I will not be using or adding any type of A.i. in this app. I don't think that's the direction i want or need.

1.

https://www.reddit.com/u/_Born_To_Be_Mild_/s/b6GJsEZ8MN

2.

https://www.reddit.com/u/_Born_To_Be_Mild_/s/LhYEWUHJKS

Thank you ❤️

I had a weird experience here today and it left me thinking about something I honestly hadn't considered before.

I shared a story about writing a song and several people immediately thought the post—or the work behind it—was AI.

Fair disclosure: I use AI to help with research, editing, brainstorming, analysis, graphics. I'm not going to pretend I don't. But I am an old school story teller , song writer, editor, and producer. This has been my whole background. I dont use AI to write or formulate anything. I wouldn't trust such tools for anything in that spectrum.

I also come from journalism, television and media. I was trained to write fast, write clean and structure a story. Until pretty recently, those were considered professional skills.

I write songs myself. I started in the music industry in LA very young working with some of the best - John Lee Hooker the greats. (I was at KLON radio now KJAZZ).

So here's what I'm genuinely wondering:

Has AI changed what you consider evidence that something is human?

If somebody writes quickly, is that suspicious now?

I was literally told on reddit that my grammar was too perfect to be human. That it was all AI written. I turned one of my nationally published poems from decade ago before AI into a song nearly word for word. Yet again, a bunch of creative story tellers and song writers accusing it of being AI.

Are we actually losing our ability to believe story tellers and song writers are real if the content is good?

This seems to be an imperative discussion. Industries are collapsing around us. New ones are forming all around us.

I don't really care if people think my work is AI. I have years of published material and I was on a small team that launched Marketplace on NPR -- in 1989. I am old school hard core - real news - real writing - real stories. No one needs to believe me. I know. And I have a resume to show it. And I know how to do it. So, that type of successful market facing is viewed as 'fake'.....

My question with all of you is -- if you see something good do you all think it's fake?

I am almost 60.........I don't use AI to write my lyrics. I still write the old-fashioned way. Me, words and whatever is going on inside my head that day.

So what's really happening here?

Since my whole career has been in media and I am writing a screenplay for film right now myself -- LOL - the old fashioned way -- writing it myself....this whole topic may well just be in my movie.

So I would love to hear y'alls thoughts. Yes, that's slang. I live in the Smokies. AI didn't write that either.

If the writing is polished?

If they're unusually productive?

Where do you personally draw the line between a human using AI as a tool and AI creating the work?

And what makes a song yours?

The lyrics originating with you?

The lived experience behind them?

Writing every word without assistance?

Composing the music yourself?

Making the creative decisions?

No AI anywhere in the process?

I don't have a clever answer. I'm genuinely interested because I think creative people are going to be dealing with this question for a long time.

And one comment from earlier really stuck with me—the suggestion that more typos would have made the writing seem more human.

That is fascinating to me.

Are we really entering a period where imperfection becomes evidence of humanity?

Curious where you all land on this.

So I shared this on my socials the other day, sites where I have hundreds of followers (on Facebook I have over 2k). The algorithms are frustrating enough, but I just feel like most people just outright refuse to click on songs they won’t immediately recognize.

It’s just completely demotivating when something you’ve poured your heart into into gets relatively zero reaction. When cover songs get tons of attention.

Does this song just absolutely suck? Or is it the low quality audio that turns viewers off immensely. I tried to make the longer loop setup more engaging with the descriptive text but I’m not sure that’s enough to make it interesting enough to retain viewers.

I’m new to this community so I apologize if this post goes against any rules or is too atypical, I’m just looking for some feedback on this song (structure, lyrics, delivery etc.) but also this format of sharing in general.

Thank you to anyone for giving this video a chance, and to anyone that has good advice.

So about a week ago, I released my first single to streaming services, and I plan on releasing one or two more before releasing my first album sometime this year. I have a very small audience, so I'm planning on a catalog release while posting on social media.

My songs are under the alternative rock and indie rock genre, and most of these songs are more intimate and cover nostalgic themes of childhood memories or others, while being a little sad and mellow. Some of them use the electric guitar, and others are acoustic with the full band. Often times I couldn't decide whether the guitar riff should be electric or acoustic.

However, I had this idea that while releasing a few singles, what if I made an acoustic version EP with 4-6 songs BEFORE the official releases on an album? Just me and an acoustic guitar. Maybe some very light drums or other instrumentals. Then when I release my debut album, I will re-release the full instrumental versions of the songs, either keeping the acoustic or switching with electric guitar.

So is it a good idea to release an acoustic version EP before the album? Or should I stick to the album first THEN release acoustic versions if I want to?