Collaboration can bring out brilliance or chaos—sometimes both. Do you thrive in creative solitude, or do you find new layers when you co-write or score with others?
Composing : Do You Write Better Alone or With Others? by Kat Spencer
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I thrive in creative solitude, but I do great when I work with others, Kat Spencer!
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I’m a lone wolf for sure. I have to really concentrate and if that gets broken I loose my creative groove!!
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I don't know if I can write with another person. The whole reason I'm in writer mode is because I feel like it's safe to be myself and go at my own pace. That being said, part of me does want it to be possible.
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I work better with someone to bounce ideas off of...I really don't write at all if I don't have that...
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A composer/lyricist combo certainly works better with direct interaction. Two or more composers together on the other hand…it worked for Lennon/McCartney, so why not?
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Ditto Maurice Vaughan!!
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I can relate to that Mark Gosney!
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I feel the same way Banafsheh Esmailzadeh for my own work. Though I've had a few collaborators add some things to a few of my songs, it's rare. And for writing in general, that's definitely a solitary art. But I do enjoy helping other writers who are stuck with their own pieces.
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I'm that combo Ville Hilden haha, I've helped others when they get stuck with lyrics, but for my own, it just flows out.
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Are we talking about movie scores or songs? Because with movie scores it's absolutely just myself working in tandem with the director. The creative process is very personal for me. it's exhausting and all encompassing. My soul is temporarily transferred to that place within the story.
If it's songs then yes I love to collaborate with someone who brings a different perspective
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Like Bruce Bray said, I write alone for scores /
DAW settings. For songs, I’m open to other suggestions. Recently, I saw two writers for
Pink Pony Club. For a hit like that this one, it’s usually written by 2-4 writers - like some Country songs.
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Written by Roan and Daniel Nigro, "Pink Pony Club" is a pop, synth-pop, dance-pop, power pop, disco-pop, and disco track that describes the story of a woman moving to Southern California from her home residence of Tennessee, taking a job as a dancer in a gay club in West Hollywood despite her mother's wishes.