Giving feedback

When giving feedback, always go to the last song in the list. This is the post with the oldest comment meaning if everyone starts from the bottom of the list, everyone gets roughly the same amount of feedback
Please give feedback on at least 4 songs in the week after submission
Here are some comments from the community. You can message Jack to amend/add to this:

Jack:

Feedback is invaluable to providing a listener’s perspective. You are not saying you could have done better, and you don’t have to “fix” any “problems” – you’re just here in this safe space to provide an outside ear to an artist who will never have got the opportunity to listen to this “for the first time”. Your first-listen reactions are gold and are valuable regardless of your skill, experience or taste.
You may have different tastes in genre etc – don’t worry about it. It’s up to the songwriter to take your feedback on or disregard it. Sometimes they suspect there’s an issue and you are helping confirm it. Other times they may be super attached to a line you don’t like, so will ignore your comment. It’s all good.
Focus on how it made you feel. “I felt the chorus repeats a bit too much” is better than “The chorus repeats too much”
Balance the positive with the constructive.
When you submit songs you may want to specify what you are looking for feedback on and what you are not looking for feedback on

Some simple prompts to get you started:

Toby:

What might you try differently if you were working on this song?
Is there something you wanted to hear when you were listening to the song. E.g. “I’d like to hear a repeat chorus at that point”

Amelia

comment on some lyrics that you particularly liked
Think about the Relationship b/w the music and the lyrics and how it makes you feel or is the emotion being portrayed clear to you?
How does the Lyric phrasing and rhythm setting feel to you?