BAD THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON is the song you are quoting Phil, and yes, that is pretty much the exact thing I was talking about. Megan and her Mother had been running late to get up to Nashville to work with me, and had they left on time they would have ended up RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of a huge wreck on the Interstate. So sometimes bad things do happen for a reason. I am sure you will be fine and get here and not be burned out.
Harland Howard said that "A good writer should be able to write the same song over and over 6 times from different perspective. He wasn't a writer if he couldn't do that. " It is all ONE song unless the melody and form all change. Then it could be different songs. But if it is along the same lines, yes it is one song.
It is what makes copyrights so weird to deal with. People will go through all this stuff doing copyrights (at least the amateurs do), and they find out that songs keep changing sometimes even DURING the recording. So you wait until you have THAT version of the song. You have to "affix a recorded copy of the song" for registration, so you might as well wait until it is ready to be released before you do it. Or if you are getting a cut, generally you will have some form of publisher, who usually does that for you. But I have seen songs have to be amended and all kinds of changes when they copywrote it before it was ready.
I see where Taylor Swift is getting sued for a line "Haters gonna Hate", by some idiot supposed writer. He is going to find out YOU CAN'T SUE FOR LINES. That line has been around for years and is part of the reason Taylor used it. IT IS A SAYING. You can't copyright that. I hope they charge him for every legal appointment, sue the lawyer for taking the case, sue the law firm for employing the lawyer, sue the school for teaching the lawyer, sue his parents for raising him to be an idiot, sue THEIR parents for raising THEIR kids. Maybe go back and sue their family for moving to America in the first place.
I'd love to see JUST one lawsuit like that that makes people finally go "Wait a minute...ALL THIS STUFF IS INCREDIBLY STUPID." We call it TORT REFORM, and it should be done NOW. But it won't. So we all endure continuing stupidity.
I personally have MY OWN designation to all this goofy stuff that constantly goes on in this world. UNIVERSAL SILLINESS. It is a term for all these things, politically correct, everyone being offended by everything, one thing after another we all seem to endure, that are SO SILLY they should not only NOT be taken seriously, they should be LAUGHED OUT AND RIDICULED out of existence. That would be my term. And yes, I've used it in a song before.
so don't. I'LL SUE YOU!!!!
MAB
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