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IF YOU WANT TO WRITE UNIVERSAL SONGS, BECOME UNIVERSAL

7/27/2021

During mentoring sessions, I am asked often how a writer can make their songs more universal. It’s easy to become frustrated when a deeply personal song fails to move your audience. My answer is to become a more universal musician/writer and stop focusing on the “fix” that will make your latest song speak to others. The Beatles wrote songs that touched more people around the world than any other band in history. But did you know, at one time, that the Beatles were, perhaps, the greatest “cover-band” on the planet? They played countless hours in a club in Hamburg, Germany, before they ever got a record deal or wrote “Yesterday” and “Come Together”. John, Paul, George, and Ringo were obsessed with the latest Rock music coming across the pond from America.

They learned Little Richard vocal licks, Carl Perkin’s guitar chords, and emulated the latest overseas songwriting. Students of style, they explored everything from Classical melodies to traditional Irish drinking songs.

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Press Release: xs - 24/7

7/25/2021

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xs has released her latest single, “24/7” on 24 July, five weeks following her debut album “Good Girls Don’t Speak Their Minds”.

The singer-songwriter has never been shy to use her music as a platform for expression, as we’ve seen in her previous songs.

But just when we thought her earlier single “Night Shift” couldn’t get any steamier, “24/7” takes it even further as she suggests her desire to share intimacy with her lover all day every day. If you listen closely to the lyrics, she also sings about cancelling their plans to get busy and causing the neighbours to complain about the noise.

The sultry lyrics is accompanied with a simple arrangement made up of synthesizers, drums and bass guitar, produced by Flipside's Music Director, Hangi Tavakoli.

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Press Release: Khashayiar - 27 (Album)

7/21/2021

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Khashayiar is an Iranian producer, composer, pianist, guitarist, and rapper. He also sings in Rock and R&B. His last album 27 has been released on July 7th, 2021 from Flipside Productions, Maghz Records and Radio Javan (For Iran’s territory). It is the first international album in Persian Hip-hop history. It contains 14 different artists from 14 countries, singing in 14 different languages. There are 10 tracks, except for the intro, all tracks are in Persian and at least one other language. As Khashayiar explains in the first track "Intro", he got this idea several years ago, but it took him a while to gather all the people and does the production and composition for all the tracks. He immigrated to Turkey a few days before the 27 album’s release date.

27 Album's guest artists are Cleo, Thas Legend, Ariy, Jae S, Alassandro, Zeen Sloshy, Swan, Bolt, Sezo, Hamed Fard, Thiaz, Jerp Walker, and Da Queero.

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FIND SONGWRITING COMMUNITY NOW!

7/20/2021

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No matter what your definition of Songwriting Success is, one of the most overlooked aspect of a songwriter’s journey is the community. I run into many writers who are writing pretty good songs, but they are doing it in a vacuum. In reality, it’s nearly impossible to succeed as a songwriter or anything without a supportive community around you. Being a member of at least one songwriting community will help you a lot to share your songs with other fellow writers, get their feedback and grow yourself, as well as being updated about the behind the scene of the industry. Plus, having a wider network is always great for your business, and please don’t forget that songwriting is your business and the songs you write are your product to be sold. Here are some reasons it is important to find community as a songwriter.

Songwriters are a different breed. It’s often hard for spouses, friends and family members to understand why we think differently.

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lottie's interview with NFM Podcast

7/20/2021

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lottie's recent interview with NFM Podcast, where she tells her story on why and how she started her music journey and what her music stands for.

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KEYS TO WRITING COMPELLING SONGS

7/13/2021

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Let’s face it, there’s nothing better than playing a song for an audience, a publisher, or a friend and having it move them. Excite them. Make them dance. Or leave them tearing up. As writers, we want to reach out and touch people with our songs. As a professional songwriter, I have written many songs that for one reason or another, have failed to move people in the slightest. I have also been blessed to have other songs reach millions and sell millions of records. Over the years, I’ve compiled a checklist that helps me move people more consistently with my songs. On a good day, I’m lucky to get these elements firing on all cylinders.

Believability. This might be the number one thing I check and recheck as I write a song. Asking yourself, “Is this believable?”. It is essential to writing a compelling song. “Does it feel real?” This seems like a simple thing to master, but it’s perhaps the hardest.

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DON’T LIVE WITH SONGWRITING REGRET

7/6/2021

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I spent the first half of my life to date living in fear. Fear of failure. Fear of taking risks. Fear of getting involved in any sort of conflicts. Fear of performing or speaking in public. Fear of God striking me down if I misbehaved. The list goes on and on. And, around that half of lifetime point, I noticed that those fears began to have a different taste in my mouth. They began to taste more like regrets. Regret for missed opportunities. Regret for chances I missed. Regret for wasted precious days of my life. You get the idea. A steady diet of fear leads to the awful aftertaste of regret. And those tastes are not easily brushed away. Even though I took a huge risk when I decided to be a full-time musician when everyone around me where surely telling me it is not going to go well but I took the risk. And luckily it worked – so far. But still when I look back, I’ve lost tons of chances and opportunities because I didn’t take enough risks when I had to. And now after years I still regret not getting in and take those risks.

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IF YOU WANT TO WRITE UNIVERSAL SONGS, BECOME UNIVERSAL

Press Release: xs - 24/7

Press Release: Khashayiar - 27 (Album)

FIND SONGWRITING COMMUNITY NOW!

lottie's interview with NFM Podcast

KEYS TO WRITING COMPELLING SONGS

DON’T LIVE WITH SONGWRITING REGRET

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