When you’re in a writing session it’s a lot easier to try and write a song you can be known for (a hit)…rather than writing a song you can be known through (an expression).
You’re in the room with a couple other writers, everyone’s got publishing deals, everyone’s trying to make sure they recoup, everyone want’s to make their publisher happy by turning in something that’s easy for the publisher to go make money with.
So you write with that in mind. You try and write a hit. And then when it hits everyone will know you wrote it. You’ll be known for it. Wonderful, congratulations.
On the other hand, writing to become known THROUGH a song is scary indeed. Because some people won’t get it. Lot’s of people will reject it. And it hurts a lot more to have one of these songs rejected than one where you were just trying to write a hit.
And then sometimes ‘being known for a song’ and ‘being known through a song’ come together in a magical way. That’s your best stuff.
