125. It's OK to NOT like your song...

Transcript (there may be some errors): 

Dear songwriter, in today's episode, I wanna give you one thought, one question, one tip, and one story,  hopefully, as a way to encourage you, to help you to make it so you can break through writer's block, whatever it might be. So  let's dig in.  My one thought is that loving the process and enjoying the process are two different things.

I.  You can love working on that song, that ep, that full length album, whatever it is you're working on, but not enjoy every second of it, and that's okay.  My one question is, would you rather spend your whole life making and sharing your music without ever earning money from it or never make music at all?

One tip.  Switch up your songwriting approach this week. Try starting with melody if you usually begin with lyrics or vice versa. If you usually start with lyrics,  try starting with melody.  Mix it up  my one story.  Okay, so I was taking a walk the other day,  this place near my home in Vermont.  I go when it's nice out.

I try to go, I try to go almost every day. It is, it is my happy place. But anyways, I was taking this walk and I was listening to a recent mix of a new song that I'm working on that I'll be releasing later this year  in 2025. And all of a sudden  I was like rounding the corner and I felt this sinking feeling in my stomach.

And that feeling  was that I no longer liked the song.  So want to be clear. The mix itself sounded great,  truly,  but it wasn't about the mix. I, I just felt very  kind of just over the tomb  and  immediately  in that feeling, I started second guessing whether or not I even thought the song was good, whether or not the song was even good, whether or not people would even like it.

Fortunately, in that moment, I  reminded myself of something. I remembered something, it, it, it just came to me, came back to me,  and that's that  your journey with a song is a complicated one. It's like a complicated relationship.  You find yourself wrestling with  emotions, feelings, and these stories from your past, you know, sometimes present situation, of course.

And there are times where you know, you're, you're gonna feel disconnected from that initial exciting, a moment that you had when you first wrote the song.  But here's the thing,  it's okay.  To not like your song  by the time you're about to release it,  because by that point, it's going to be someone else's turn  to.

Love it.  Hope this was helpful for you today. I wanna give you one bonus action. Join my free online community. It's free right now  in the, by the, at the time of recording. It's, it's free.  Um, it's called the songwriter's vault. You're gonna get access to a community of songwriters and producers get even more in depth resources, get a little bit more access to me and my coaching.

So yeah, would love to see you there. connorfrost.com/vault, V-A-U-L-T. See you inside. Gonna try to do more of these types of podcasts. Hopefully you like them. If you do, I would love to hear from you. Just kind of these, like one thought, one question, one tip, one story. Just really just, just bitesize break it down for you.

So if you like that, let me know. We'd be super helpful feedback. All right, later.