My personal story on this is this one.
A few years ago, one of my regular clients, a really attractive girl named STACY YOUNG, came to me on a three day tour. We would write a variety of songs, usually about five or six, over the days, and on a later date, we would go record them.
One day she started talking to me about an idea called "I want to be your quarterback." It was about a woman whose husband is all crazy for football and pays no attention to her. She had some personal experience and while I have seen that, Stacy is very attractive. So I thought her husband might be blind!
She explained the situation and I was trying to find the hook but just couldn't make it work under that title. So I changed it to "FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM." Fantasy football was just starting up, and it was all about the fantasy's she could fulfill for him. Worked out great and we were both pretty excited about it. I nearly broke my arm patting myself on the back for that one. LOL! A couple of months later I had a recording session and we added that one. Worked out great. It was a girl's song so we had to have a female sing it. But it worked great.
About a year later I had this other guy doing a tour with me and after going through some of his songs he says "I wanted to write this song about a woman having trouble getting her husband to pay attention to her because he was so into football. The title is "I WANT TO BE YOUR QUARTERBACK." It all sounded a little TOO familiar as he described it. After a few minutes, I pulled up the song on my computer and said "Something like THIS?"
And his jaw dropped as the song played. It was JUST LIKE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT.
I asked him if he had ever talked over this idea. Yes. WITH STACY YOUNG! Turns out they were in the same songwriting group in St. Louis and had gotten together to write. Stacy had brought the idea to HIM and he tried it but never went anywhere with him. But because they never had talked about taking it somewhere else, there was still an "implied contract."
So I called Stacy and suggested we add him as a writer. The reason is that he was kind of a dick and I felt like if we had gone on with it without him, he could cause trouble down the line.
A year ago, I got a copy of a video from a all girl trio called SOUTHERN SIRENS. They had recorded the song, and done a really cute video of the three of them playing on a football field in football jerseys. And nothing else. It's a pretty cool video and they are very good. They are actually starting to showcase around the country now.
This is the video. I think I posted it before but here it is again.
The overall deal is that sometimes it is best to go ahead and add someone to keep peace. You are always going to write more songs and your involvement doesn't have to go too far. But it could end up cutting your nose off to spite your face if you get too caught up in endless details.
Ready for some football?
MAB
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