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Absolutely right! Every song is a learning experience itself, and it adds something to the next one you write (if you let it, and resist the temptation to stagnate).
I guess I shouldn't be too hard on those who don't care and just want to make money, but I like to be able to feel something in a song that I have never felt, either melodically, harmonically, rhytmically, or any or all of those. If it's just the same elements that every other popular band is doing at the time, it's kind of like eating a plate of spaghetti versus a bowl of spaghettios; same stuff, just packaged and shaped differently.
That's why I tend to prefer older music. Seems like in the 60s, 70s and part of the 80s, musicians were really creative (even if I didn't necessarily like a song I could still admire its creativity). Somewhere in the mid eighties, it just kinda died.
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