Splits Before Hits
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Splits Before Hits

How do you measure a contribution — a catchy title vs. an entire first and second verse? What if Jack writes 90% of the lyric on the hook but the room was stuck on the pay-off line until Will spouted it in one fell swoop after being verbally MIA the whole session? Suddenly the whole song comes to life. Is there some objective scale on which to weigh a song? Let’s discuss.

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Song Splits
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Song Splits

It’s hard to weigh a contribution. Who’s to say a hook is worth more than the verse that allows the hook to make sense? 

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Confessions.