I’ve never met Max Martin but regardless, I bet…
1. Max Martin is currently working hard
And
2. Max Martin is currently working hard on hit songs
He probably had that first one on lock down years ago, way before any of us had heard of him.
But it was the first part of the reputation that lead to the second part.
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I bought my first grill a few months ago and I love it.
There’s a scene from Father Of The Bride when Steve Martin gets kicked out (or maybe arrested??) of the grocery store because he rips open the package of eight hotdog buns to take two of them out because he only wants to pay for six buns…to go with the package of six hotdogs.
Well as I’ve found out just recently, the six hot dogs/eight hotdog bun fiasco is still a thing.
I pick out the hotdogs first and then venture to the bun aisle…and my blood pressure goes through the roof because they don’t package the same amount of buns as I have hotdogs.
How has no one fixed this??!!!!!
But here’s the question…am I going to DO anything about the hotdog bun situation?
Answer: no
So I have two options…
1) Boil with rage every time I hotdog bun shop and join Steve Martin in his resistance
2) Just buy the hotdog buns and get on with it
There’s so many situations where we need to simply buy the buns.
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That beautiful first moment, you can’t get to it by playing the song again, you can only get to it again by creating another one.
The magic in the room when that melody was hummed with those chords for the first time and then the words flowed…a room that was once devoid of a song now has one.
That’s a moment worth chasing again and again. It’s fleeting and life giving at the same time.
After the song is written it immediately becomes something else. It’s beauty that now already exists, it’s a different kind of beauty…as playing is different than writing.
Playing the song again can remind you of the first moment and bring you a similar feeling but it can never actually be that moment again.
That moment is extra special. The first time that song was sung in the world. Before anyone else heard it. Before it went on the charts. Or before it went nowhere. That moment is a gift to you from music…the moment of creation.
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Even if you’re not making what you’re worth, you can still exude what your worth.
Do that long enough, sprinkle in some wisdom and a couple beneficial coincidences and you’ll be just fine.
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I think most of us will remember this classic hilarious scene from Tommy Boy where he, in great detail, explains why he sucks as a salesman.
Once he lays it out and destroys the biscuit, two things happens.
1. He changes the waitresses mind.
2. The explaining opened him up to the solution to his problem.
It turns out he didn’t suck as a salesman…he was just doing it wrong.
He had all the tools, he was just using the wrong ones at the right time.
But ‘I suck as a salesman’ was the trigger for becoming a great one.
‘I am an ok salesman’ wouldn’t have triggered such a change.
It might be time to say out loud that you suck at…..
That way it’ll change.
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Every day for an entire week, push through.
I’m writing this for the songwriting folks out there but I’m sure even if you’re not one you can apply your own version.
The idea of writing a full song everyday for an entire week…
Seven days seven songs. Complete.
When the frustration, un-creativity, un-inspiration and tiredness inevitably pop up…push through.
Get to the other side. Don’t back down. Don’t take the afternoon or the week off.
Writers are constantly trying to find the fleeting balance between digging up the muse and letting the muse come to them…but for one week: force it. For one week you have your answer: keep going and finish.
Don’t short it, don’t skirt the edge, don’t make concessions and excuses, don’t wiggle out.
Seven completions.
Start Sunday. Commit for seven days and find out what it feels like on the other side.
I’d love to hear from you on this.
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