{"id":175,"date":"2009-11-17T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2010-02-26T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T01:22:02","slug":"song-contests-one-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/song-contests-one-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Contests – One Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9 I.Woloshen<\/p>\n

I’ve entered a few contests in my time, the most recent one being the USA Songwriting Competition a few years back. I’ve heard different opinions about them both from other songwriters and from people in the business. There is absolutely nothing wrong with entering a songwriting contest, so don’t expect me to completely blast them! However, I do think you have to take a few things into consideration.<\/p>\n

First of all, if you are expecting something from a contest, well, it’s a little bit like buying a lottery ticket, in that all you really find out is that you haven’t won \ud83d\ude42 Very few songwriting competitions offer anything more than a chance to win. There is rarely any feedback from your songs, or calls from “interested” parties as is sometimes implied when they say “industry professionals will be listening to your song” or something in that vein.<\/p>\n

Most of the time, contests are judged by a group of people who are listening to piles and piles of tapes and who can’t possibly have any objectivity left after such a long haul! So the good news is that losing doesn’t necessarily mean your song sucks \ud83d\ude42
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