Back from the salon. I've heard all the songs that were being performed so it wasn't that interesting to me. But the real problem is when the lyricist is setting up each song by saying things like, "We wrote this one as an exercise" or "We wrote this one because a music supervisor needed something" or "We wrote this one because we wanted to have a rhumba" or "We wrote this one to sound like a Mel Torme song." In other words, academic, not passion. I am only interested in songwriters who write from a place of passion, whether it's Broadway or pop or classical or jazz.
