Comments on: Bring The Pain – To Your Songs https://tonyconniff.com/bring-the-pain-to-your-songs/ Songwriter, Producer, and Coach, based in New York City. Wed, 28 Aug 2024 05:46:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: TonyConniff https://tonyconniff.com/bring-the-pain-to-your-songs/#comment-241842 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 05:46:52 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=946#comment-241842 Annie,
Good process, good patience, good work.
Thanks for sharing it!
Best,
Tony

]]> By: Annie Dinerman https://tonyconniff.com/bring-the-pain-to-your-songs/#comment-30132 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:54:41 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=946#comment-30132 For a long, long time, I thought I should write a song about my family history and how it affected me. I just didn’t want to present myself as a victim, so I couldn’t find the way into that song idea. One day, I realized that music was the key to my story. Music would allow me to make the song upbeat, and my viewpoint would allow me to feel like a winner. Audiences love to sing along to the “doo-doop” in the chorus. You can hear it at Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/track/7FcKURjy6uEdhbENCNsTzV

]]> By: Tony Conniff https://tonyconniff.com/bring-the-pain-to-your-songs/#comment-4832 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:00:21 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=946#comment-4832 In reply to Ilina Simeonova.

Thanks, Ilina!
Even with ‘bubblegum’, I think, the writers/producers have to connect with the kid in them – it has to at least feel authentic. So it may not be Pain exactly, but it’s still about making it feel real.
To look at it from another angle:
George Burns said, “The most important thing for success in show business is Sincerity… Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”

]]> By: Tony Conniff https://tonyconniff.com/bring-the-pain-to-your-songs/#comment-4830 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:26:06 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=946#comment-4830 In reply to karl.

Bunny Sigler! Thanks for the encouraging words, Karl.

]]> By: Ilina Simeonova https://tonyconniff.com/bring-the-pain-to-your-songs/#comment-4829 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:47:13 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=946#comment-4829 Interesting post, I especially loved this part “he didn’t run away from his most painful feelings – he transformed them”.

I didn’t always think this way, but now I guess I can relate to the idea that revealing how talking about joy that didn’t come easily can make a song / story feel more real and the emotion more powerful, through the comparison / transformation.

Although I think there will probably always be place in the world for certain type of music that some call bubblegum, to which certain groups of people will continue to relate to and identify with.

]]> By: karl https://tonyconniff.com/bring-the-pain-to-your-songs/#comment-4828 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:57:23 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=946#comment-4828 I get a lot out of your blogs, Tony! Important insights – not only for songwriters, but also for just listening and enjoying songs. Thanks a ton for sharing.

Speaking of emotion – i work with Jeff Sigler at Medgar Evers College, you probably know of his uncle Bunny Sigler (nicknamed ‘Mr. Emotion’) of the ‘Philly Sound’ of the ’70s.

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