Opportunities for a Song Writer

I pretty much only hear lyrics in vocal trance and it’s usually all chorus. I suppose you could collaborate with a singer to make samples for use by producers but even if you could monetize it it would be really difficult to build that into a serious platform.

Putting aside EDM for now, have you done songwriting in general? Most musicians I know who sing only want to perform lyrics they wrote if it’s an original song. Alternatively they might perform someone elses song if it’s someone elses band and they are just playing in it. There is a place for songwriters in the industry but it will take time to establish yourself specifically as a songwriter.

Here in Holland I know there are a few songwriters that have their texts sung by many artists. Also quite a few take songs from other languages and create a Dutch text for it. This then gets sung by a Dutch artists.

I am guessing there is work in general lyric writing, but I’d agree with Scotto on the (very) limited options in the dance scene.