Writing vulnerably is scary because you don’t know if it will be affirmed.
If you write about your marriage your best friends, if you name names and it isn’t a hit, now it’s just out there.
Because if you write a vulnerable song and no one cares, it feels like your vulnerability isn’t worth that much. And that really hurts.
It’s as though you told the world your secrets and the world yawned.
You’re willing to be vulnerable if it means you get to be famous for it.
But that’s not how it works. The vulnerability happens in the writing room, long before anyone is there to think you’re cool for being that honest.
Adele gets credit, money and fame for writing the vulnerable way she does. But what if you don’t get that much credit, money and fame? Because chances are you won’t. Are you still willing to lay it on the line? To write from the heart? To tell the truth?
I hope so.
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