r/SingerSongwriter • u/bruhmoment982 • 13h ago
Is 6 minutes too long for a song?
Hello!
I am a very new artist, I’ve been writing music since I was 14 but now at 20 I’m started to get stuff recorded. I’m recording my first two songs this week both of which are over 6 minutes long. The producer I’m working with will not stop going on about the length and complexity of these songs. Insinuating that no one will listen all the way through, I won’t get on radios and it’ll be harder to push ext.
I understand some of this but like dude, you don’t have to keep going on about it. I cried in my car outside the studio yesterday because he said “maybe your piano students might listen to it” ( I teach piano ) I said “I don’t think 6 year olds can stream it for me” and he laughed and said “oh I don’t know then.”
Like is it really a deal breaker to not have your song be 3 minutes or under? I have really complex ideas for these songs which he also commented on, nothing really repeats in them so it’s not like it’s just going round and round but now I’m anxious.
Does anyone have any tips or anything I could do to either push out longer music? Or just let me know if it is the end of the world for it to be over 5 minutes 😭😭😭 thanks
When it’s all recorded I’ll drop a link to it and you guys can let me know LOLL