Everyone thinks THEY ARE THE ONE. They all think they have something so unique and amazing there is nothing like it anywhere. The songs are so interesting and unique because their grandmother has never heard anything like it.
One of my favorite eye opening moments are taking someone to a writers night and hearing almost THE EXACT SAME SONGS that they have written, done over and over and over again. The titles are the same. The chord patterns are the same. The rhymes are the same. The progress of the story is the same. Finding out the fact that there IS NO STORY is the same.
A lot of people come to this in a feeling of discovery. They write some songs, people like them. They actually have a good time playing them. They go to a local open mic, and some people don't hate them. Suddenly, like a person who hits a good golf shot, THEY WANT TO DO IT EVERY DAY AND TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT.
They get a little cocky. They write a bunch of stuff they think is really good. They learn a new chord. They find a new rhyme. They really get full of themselves.
Then they go to that local writers night, and everyone ignores them. As high as they were before, now they hit bottom. They want to break their guitar!
A few days later, they pick it back up and then discover a new chord or rhyme, STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!
Then they REALLY get cocky. That is when they come to NASHVILLE.
Welcome to the professional football league.
After they get their heads caved in a few times there, they tend to slow down a little. Most actually quit there. Some just decide TO HATE NASHVILLE!!!! GOD BLESS TEXAS!!!!!
So you can still be a BIG FISH IN A LITTLE POND, or get YOUR HEAD BEAT IN DAILY.
What a choice.
MAB