You Can’t Write A Hit

You can write a song that sounds like hit. You can write a song that is similar to an existing hit. You can think this song might become a hit. You can write a song that causes the same feeling as hit songs.

But you can’t write a hit.

Because a song can only be defined as a hit AFTER it becomes a hit. See, a hit refers to something other than the actual song itself…a hit is based on popularity, consumption, culture, markets, money, planning and politics.

And we know not all great songs become hits. Songs aren’t hits, and they’re not not hits. Songs are songs. Hits don’t necessarily care about great songs. The hit parade requires much more than a great song.

You can’t write hits. You can write songs.

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