{"id":1305,"date":"2013-11-17T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T05:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:36:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:36:14","slug":"is-your-songwriting-two-steps-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/is-your-songwriting-two-steps-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Songwriting Two Steps Ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Songwriting Tip: If people say your ideas are wrong, then you&#8217;re probably one step ahead. If they laugh at you, then you&#8217;re probably two steps ahead. Great artists aren&#8217;t always understood in their own time, but if you write songs on your own terms, you&#8217;ll never have regrets.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you&#8217;re trying to be commercially successful, it&#8217;s probably best if people aren&#8217;t laughing at your songs (unless that&#8217;s your intention). The point, however, is that if you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/garyewer.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/28\/writing-songs-that-are-on-the-cutting-edge\/\">writing songs that are on the cutting edge<\/a>, you can&#8217;t worry too much about how the wider world criticizes them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4008\/4478859972_bdf336dbb6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr By Mad House Photography<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Songwriting Tip: If people say your ideas are wrong, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-l3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}