I've often hopped out of bed in the middle of the night with an AMAZING tune in my head from a dream, and recorded it on my phone. They've invariably been shite when I listened to them the next morning
Songwriting is like any other kind of creative work. You come up with an idea, put it into some concrete form. That first recording. If it's shite, give it a minute and then come back to it with fresh ears and think about what you like about it and what you don't like. Take away the parts you don't like. Maybe you can think of something else that works with what you already like. Work that in. Evaluate. Rinse, repeat.
Sometimes you just have to abandon stuff that isn't working and move on to something completely different. That's OK too. Just keep doing it and your output will get better and better.
Even though it can be fun, in order to do it well you have to work on it. Your tenth song is going to be better than your first song, and your hundredth song is going to be better yet.
insofar as making stuff goes, especially art, I think there are widely held views that it either comes easy to you, or you don't do at all. It doesn't occur to some people that to be good at something (even something "fun") you have to work at it and put in time that decidedly isn't fun.
Yesterday is only good when you hear it in hindsight, knowing the commercial success that it had and under the influence of halo effect
Honestly every song of that Level is.
You have to put together a good album and it can make it to 100k copies sold .
Everything above 100K copies is more telling about the luck and the scope of the promotional campaign supporting it then it says about the album itself .
It’s a phenomenon you see in every field .
Gisele Bunchen is beautiful but not 400M dollar beautiful
Bill Gates is smart but not 170B smart
The Mona Lisa is a great painting I guess but not 1B dollar worth
Jesus was a pretty cool role model , but not a 3B devote follower type role model dictating that the world stops on his birthday
All the above phenomenons rely on a mix of luck, vitality and as well as people not thinking about potentially buying into something that could be overrated and ‘overpriced’ compared to cheaper options which is the definition of halo effect
Many of the 3B dedicate at least an hour a day thinking about him and the values he tried to communicate , and in a very deep way
He was somewhat of a crossover between a magician , a cult leader an artist and a businessman self promoter so nobody can convince me that he would not the type to gloat about his success.
And honestly I can accept that . I’d rather have promotion about love and compassion than the technoutipian futurism such as crypto Jesus or rocket Jesus .
But as I said I have to point out that luck plays a huge role . So many people tried to sing the virtue of compassion and love via story telling but only Jesus broke out and became a figure with 3 billion religious followers
He didn’t dictate it, but he’d be pleased about it.
He was a human being after all, if you want to cut him some slack you can compare him with a contemporary Buddhist monk.
They too have an ego
How do you know? Citation needed
Also The most famous celebrity ever
Nobody even comes close