The Power Of YouTube.

YouTube can be an extremely powerful tool for bands, as an extremely famous artist called Justin Bieber has found out. Future Idiots, a more appropriate example of using YouTube to their advantage have been doing pop to pop/punk sounding covers and they are starting to get 1000's of views on each of their video's and I believe that a large amount of their success is from good covers on YouTube, sticking to their specific genre (in this case their genre is Pop/Punk), finding a target audience and doing something that nobody else has either done or nobody does on a regular basis.

For Future Idiots creating pop to pop/punk covers, they have built a large fanbase all around the world, and therefore they have got a large audience that will listen to any of their originals.

Basically, what I am trying to say is that, if your in a new band and you want to create a name for yourself, do covers! lets say you are a heavy metal band but you still have some punk influences, do a ramones cover.... into your genre! It will create new fans, as well as strike up a discussion weather its good or bad (because it is an old song put into a new genre, there will be old fans that hate it, and new fans that like it) Discussion in this case is very very good!!

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Lyrics and good lyrics

So, there is a big difference between just lyrics, and then good lyrics. And my goal for tonight, is to explore the differences and learn about them myself whilst trying to teach you :)


Lyrics are a very essential part to a song. Listen to just about any song, and you will notice lyrics weather these lyrics be "Like a G6" or "All the small things, Truth Care, Truth Brings" Lyrics are a very very key part to just about every song.

So tonight, we are both going to learn about lyrics, writing good lyrics, and what really makes a chart topper etc

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Dan Sweeto.

So he hasn't commented on my blog. he is a big star in Australia, he has earned his fame through covers of bands like Short Stack. He has one of the best voices I have ever heard. Although. What is letting him down, is his recordings.. dont get me wrong, I dont want to sound like a judgmental c#$* but if he spent another hour or two on mixing, and EQing the guitar a tiny tiny bit more, you would hear so much more of an improvement in his recordings, dont get me wrong, they already sound fantastic, but honestly, if he spent another hour or so on the EQ on some of his covers, there would be such a great change in the sound, it would be insane!

Who is he? Dan Sweeto is an Australian Singer, he was born on the 13th of August 1992 (almost 19) and he has dreams of opening for Short Stack. I believe he can do it as well as all of his thousands of teenybopper fans, and when I say thousands I do mean thousands, he has over three thousand friends on his personal Facebook page, he has over two thousand views on his Short Stack cover "Werewolves" and believe me, getting one thousand views on Youtube is hard enough!

Dan Sweeto is going to get far, he has done an amazing job with just about all of his covers, he has original songs and everything! I am waiting for a recording company to snatch him up!!

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/DanSweeto
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