u/Robotpixie1

I’d really appreciate any advice anyone has on my first song. Things like lyrics, mixing, and overall composition.

I would like to open the Queen of Venus .ustx file and listen to the raw vocals. However, no matter what version of her I try, I cant get her to pronounce the vocals correctly. Does anyone know what version of the voice and what resampler they used?

I’ll start by saying I’ve only been trying to write music for around 4 months. Which I know isn’t a long time in a space like this, but It seems like it is when you have never made something you even remotely enjoy. I also am doing everything digitally “FL studio for the music and Synthesizer V for the lyrics”

I get stuck in a cycle of working on something for anywhere between 1-12 hours in one sitting, then coming back to continue it, only to listen to it and it sounds awful. At that point I spend another few hours trying to fix it only to give up on it, delete it, and start over. I’ve gone through this cycle nearly every day, sometimes multiple times a day. And at this point and it’s starting to really make it difficult to enjoy songwriting. The farthest I’ve ever gotten into a song is about 1 and a half minutes and that took me well over 100 hours to do and I’m still not happy with it.

It is just very difficult to find the motivation to continue when every time I try to write a song, I end up making something that I don’t think I could ever be proud of. Either it’s too muddy, too empty, sections don’t flow into each other, the mixing is bad, the list goes on.

I’ve heard people say it said that it can take 10-15 years to learn how to write good songs. But I can’t see myself getting there if I have to spend a substantial amount of that time not being happy with anything I make.

I know I can’t be the only person who has felt this way when they started. If anyone else used to have this issue, I would really appreciate knowing how you stopped feeling this way about your work, or improved your songs to a point where you were happy with them.

Edit: Thank you to everyone leaving advice, it is very helpful to hear everyone's insight and experience on this topic.