9-3-13 Why Week Part 1

[Niveous]

Hey folks,

At the job, I have been working a lot lately with his one supervisor. While he is far from my favorite person in the world, I do admire one quality he possesses, he is willing to ask "Why?" a lot. It has inspired me to ask several why-based qotd's this week.

QotD: Why do you participate in Songfights? (Not the community, the fights)

I definitely don't participate in the fights for the reviews. I know that I often do weird things that aren't going to be everyone's cup of tea or earn me votes. I also know I lack a good amount of production polish. And I feel like I could probably still be an active part of the community even without putting another song into the fight. So why do I songfight? I do it because I enjoy the limitations. There's a saying, "No Pressure, No Diamonds". The fight is like a puzzle to me: I have X amount of time to create a song inspired by title Y but I never wanna go with the obvious interpretation of Y. That's what keeps me doing the fights.

[roymond]

A) Fame and riches. What's not to love?

B) To be part of some great music making and chatter with great people.

C) all of the above.

[fluffy]

I participate in fights because I have a hard time getting inspired to work on music on my own, and getting the right title at the right time when there's the right notion stuck in my head makes things happen. And it's good to get practice at songwriting and production, which I enjoy doing a lot.

[Lunkhead]

What fluffy said, plus when I started, in addition to not having really written lyrics before, I hadn't really sung much before (except choir in grade school).

Unlike Roy Niveous though I did appreciate the reviews when I started out. They were really harsh, which pissed me off, but some of the feedback was useful and did help me improve. Plus I think it's good for everybody to get exposed to feedback from people who have no vested interest in their feelings. It helps toughen you up, and make you either question what you're doing and change, or strengthens your resolve to keep doing what you're doing.

[Billy's Little Trip]

qotd: To keep my sanity. My head is always swirling with riffs, grooves and compositions. I need a creative outlet or I will become very disconnected with life and people around me, because I will be looking off into space hearing and arranging instruments on a song. If I don't get it out of my head, it'll never get finished and then it'll stack up as I work on other new head music until I explode or something. I've never allowed it to happen, so I'm not sure what will actually happen. But I imagine it will be some sort of mental breakdown. Luckily just playing drums on my desk with my hands and singing is a quick fix or placebo that settles my mind from working over time.

As far as why SF? This place is comfy for me. Like sitting on the porch on a beautiful warm day with a glass of lemonade over ice and the smell of a fresh backed apple pie in the oven while I watch some weird guy across the street that I've never seen before doing this at all the cars that drive by. >>>

[Paco Del Stinko]

QOTD: There's an itch that's gotta be scratched, and the titles point to where the itch is. Or something like that. I love the reviews, good or bad, WHEN PEOPLE WRITE THEM!

[Caravan Ray]

I'm only here for the chicks.

[roymond]

Unlike Roy though I did appreciate the reviews when I started out.

Think you mean Niveous...
I like reviews, and I like writing them, but it's very consuming.

[Billy's Little Trip]

I love the reviews, good or bad, WHEN PEOPLE WRITE THEM!

I've only had reviews from people. Are you sure that maybe your non-people reviews weren't just a figment of your imagination?

[fluffy]

I'm only here for the chicks.

[Paco Del Stinko]

I've only had reviews from people. Are you sure that maybe your non-people reviews weren't just a figment of your imagination?

Ah ha ha ha ha! Oh, that's rich, old boy. RICH I say!

[Billy's Little Trip]

[quote="fluffy"][/quote]

I'd get a tetanus shot and start going to therapy if those hands ever touched me.

[Niveous]

Just a quick explanation on the whole reviews thing...

It would be ridiculous to say I didn't like knowing if people liked or disliked my work. And I appreciate those who do reviews.
It's not a "you need thicker skin" thing, I couldn't make the weird things I do if I didn't have a good layer of bulldog skin. It's something else...
I've been wondering lately about how we go about reviewing and if it's as detrimental as it is helpful. Do we squash caterpillars before they have a chance to become butterflies. Do we promote conformity and shun the experimental and if so, how does the community innovate and grow.
I'm not posing those as questions. That's just the kind of stuff that I think about when I see review threads.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Just a quick explanation on the whole reviews thing...

It would be ridiculous to say I didn't like knowing if people liked or disliked my work. And I appreciate those who do reviews.
It's not a "you need thicker skin" thing, I couldn't make the weird things I do if I didn't have a good layer of bulldog skin. It's something else...
I've been wondering lately about how we go about reviewing and if it's as detrimental as it is helpful. Do we squash caterpillars before they have a chance to become butterflies. Do we promote conformity and shun the experimental and if so, how does the community innovate and grow.
I'm not posing those as questions. That's just the kind of stuff that I think about when I see review threads.

Also, as I read somewhere recently, "does coal become a diamond without a little of pressure"?

....pushing down on me, pressing down on you no man ask for.