I try to never critique anyone’s music. When I say critique, I mean say something negative about it. I either like it or I don’t. If I don’t like it, I just to mess with it. I don’t go out of my way to trash it. I can tell you if it’s the type of song I like. I can tell you how you can make it appeal to me. But, I don’t pretend to be an expert on whether it’s good or not. Why you ask? There is list of thousands of artists who I think suck, that are making a lot of money. They are topping the charts and selling out tours. There are even more artists who I think are extremely talented, whose records I love, that can’t sell a record to save their lives. The point is that musical tastes are subjective. If you have a producer critique your music, he’s going to be listening to your music based on what he considers to be good production practices. A rapper will be listening to you and comparing you to what he considers it takes to be a good rapper. The record exec is going to be comparing you to what he thinks is marketable. The consumer doesn’t care about none of this stuff. He either likes it, or he doesn’t. That’s why the “experts” are usually wrong. There are close to 8 billion people on planet earth. That means there is probably a large group of people somewhere that will like your music no matter how “trash” it is. Your job is to find these people and deliver them the right message to let them know you have a product they will love. I’m not advocating making terrible music. What I am saying is, if you are passionate about your music, don’t let other’s criticism crush your dreams. Take critique with a grain of salt because nobody can tell you whether your music is good but the consumers.
Check out this write-up about a song I do like very much by Lab79Sounds.
