All musicians do covers. It's an easy way to practice and and you have the original song as a guideline to know if your'e doing it right. But what about when you're trying to get your music career off the ground? Do you stick with covers or move on to writing original songs? I'm sure people have asked you,"do you write your own songs?"
Any musician can do covers, and that's not a bad thing, but writing your own songs says a lot about your intent, your ambition as a musician, and can really help showcase your talent.
Are you an artist or a mimic?
Artists often believe their work is original because of something they do. Or because of the way they do it. But nothing an artist does is as distinctive as who they are. Originality isn’t developed as much as it is discovered. Like any coming of age, the process of finding one’s creative voice is a journey.
Writing original music is a way to make you stand out from the crowd. Your chances of writing accessible songs are greater if you keep your ideas “universal” (songwriting code for “clichéd”) than if you set them apart. But cloning the work of other songwriters will also make you easy to forget. It's a matter of finding the balance between originality and accessibly. If people can relate to it, they're more likely to appreciate it.
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