Boy Band Dancing

It’s fun because we can tell how good one group is from another.

Boy band or girl band dancing is all about how in sync everyone is. Did everyone move their hands at the same time at the same height? Did they spin all together? Pump their fists with the same intensity?

So it becomes less about how good each person is at dancing (super hard to judge) and more about how exactly the same they are (easy to judge).

And so it fuels the teeny bopper fodder. It’s another talking point to create tension within a scene…so the scene gets talked about more.

Brilliant.

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Clark's Good Time

Having a good time trying to have a good time. This is Clark Griswold.

But not so good at reading the room.

And I’m not sure Clark would know what to do if he was having a good time as opposed to trying to have a good time.

Do we really want the thing we say we want…or do we cherish even more the tension of not having it?

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Christmas Ad-Libs

In most songs the ad-libs and chord substitutions come during the last chorus…because they’re built on the foundation of the audience knowing the regular chorus, which by the last chorus, we’ve heard two or three times.

But Christmas songs are different…because most Christmas songs are covers of beloved classics.

The ‘way the song goes’ is already embedded deep in our brains.

So the ad-libs and chord substitutions can start right from the beginning and we love it. We can appreciate the changes because we know what they’ve been changed from.

When making your next thing…it’s important to recognize to what degree the standard is set and what you’re going to do with it.

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From The Soul

What you sing of will always be more important than what you sing about.

Because…while what you sing about can change from song to song, what you sing of comes from the soul…and the soul doesn’t change from song to song.

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The Guy From LA

Years ago I was playing a show somewhere in Florida.

After our set this guy comes up to talk to us. He’s nice enough. But he’s acting like a big shot biz guy and he wants to work with us. He keeps telling us he’s from LA and does a lot of business in LA and he knows everyone in LA, and then says LA a hundred more times.

Turns out he was from Louisiana.

It’s ok to have the confidence to ride the edge of your own hype…as long as we don’t feel tricked when we find out more.

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Loyalty And Laziness

When we find an artist we like, we quickly develop a degree of loyalty and laziness and bias that says, “It’s easier and less risky for me to listen to the next song of this same artist than it would to go find something new”.

When we find something we like we want more of it and we assume that this artist is the best shot we have at getting it.

So hook us in with a great song or two and keep us hanging around by being consistent.

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