I Have Writen A Whole Alum Of Music What Do I Do Next

Does Ariana Grande write her own songs? When she collaborates with others, do they do 90% of the writing or does she do most of it?

As a songwriter who has been writing for almost 45 years, there is one thing I look for in a artist/songwriter. Have they ever written and released anything solely written by them alone. If no, I would say they are getting a ride along. Happens a lot in music business. I had to do it in the eighties. Producers often took a writers credit just for producing. This gave them hope of a recurring royalty if there was a hit. But today, it’s the producers who are the songwriters by large. And if they hook up with an artist that writes, even better. Unfortunately, Ariana has never written anything on her own. Not that has been released anyway. Kind of like Beyonce’. She admitted this year that she isn’t a songwriter. No shit… She has songwriting credit on almost all the songs she has recorded. She is basically stealing royalties from the real writers.

Do you have an album that you absolutely hate, yet still has one of your favourite songs on it?

Not quite, but there's two examples in very two different genres.First off, Keane. Now, I have not heard the whole album, but most of the music I've heard from it sucks. And yet there's one and a half pieces on it which I really dig, both featured in this video ("The Atlantic"'s first half and the coda is a portion of their song "Iron Sea"):Page on youtube.comGoing for metal, Metallica's "...And Justic For All" bored me. I didn't absolutely hate it and I must admit it had some cool riffs, but the pacing was really bad in almost all of the songs; they felt like they were way too long. The one exception to this is the opening track, "Blackened":Page on youtube.com

I have written so many songs. Now how do I get to the next step either as a singer or songwriter?

As a songwriter, you write songs all the time. But if you don’t take those songs out of your “bedroom bubble” you will never get to see if they work in front of the audience. You need to get feedback on your songs to learn how to write better songs, and often time family and friends are not the best people for this.Go to a local singer songwriter night and perform your songs in front of a live audience. Set up a camera in the room or get a friend to film your performance. Even better if they can also film the audience response. Study back what works and what does not. Work on it, make it better. And repeat the process.As a singer I can tell you there is nothing better to improve your vocals than singing a one thousand shows. I know this sounds crazy, but to become a truly engaging performer is a craft and it takes time.The number of songs you have written does not mean much, but the experience helps. How good your songs are is something you don’t decide, the market decides. And you will never find out until you put your songs in front of people.