As musicians, we’ve all been there: stuck in a rut, hamstrung by writers’ block and unable to come up with anything even half-decent. Well, Jacob Collier might have found the solution: try writing the worst song in the world.
That’s the, er, interesting advice the six-time Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist proffered in a recent interview with Guitar.com. He was talking about how expectations can feel creatively restricting. “I find myself locked when I’m covered by expectation,” he said. “And if something isn’t a certain way then I’m failing. But some of the process, for me, is trying not to hold onto expectations too closely and let something be whatever it needs to be.”
