The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136488   Message #3117582
Posted By: Little Hawk
20-Mar-11 - 12:19 PM
Thread Name: Open mic acts that completely blow
Subject: RE: BS: Open mic acts that completely blow
I can understand your approach to doing songs, josepp, keeping it to short ones with a good hook, and sometimes I plan it the same way, but sometimes I don't. It really depends on which songs I'm feeling like singing that day. I basically sing songs because I feel like singing them for some reason, not necessarily because I think they are the songs that will go over the best...but that depends also on where I'm playing and what the objective is. In other words, am I there mainly to entertain? Or am I there mainly to express myself in the way that I enjoy the most? Or both? Anyway, there are some long songs I like to play, simply because I like what's in those songs, period. That is, the words interest me. I don't know that I've sung any songs that "do nothing" or go nowhere.... (?) I don't think so. But someone else might think so if they can't relate to it or if they've got a sort of limited attention span (not uncommon these days).