{"id":1424,"date":"2014-04-09T19:17:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T02:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2022-06-07T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T02:45:04","slug":"know-yourself-and-your-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/know-yourself-and-your-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Yourself and Your Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s important to achieve a certain balance in your songwriting priorities. Songs written just for yourself may lack the ability to appeal to a wider audience; on the flip side, songs that have only been written to appeal to mass audiences are likely to be devoid of any real meaning or depth. Try to find a compromise between these two extremes.<\/p>\n<p>(And don&#8217;t forget to preserve your <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\">song copyright<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5243\/5223822188_a25b05a016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr by ethanhickerson<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s important to achieve a certain balance in your songwriting [&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-1424","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-mY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","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=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}