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One of the hardest lessons in creative work is accepting that recognition has its own timeline. You can spend months writing a book that sells slowly. Record a song that reaches people years later. Publish an article that quietly becomes your most valuable piece of work over time. We often judge our work by its […]

People often talk about what they’re trying to create. A film. A book. An album. A business. But every worthwhile creative project is doing something else at the same time. It’s creating the person capable of finishing it. The finished work is only part of the outcome. The countless decisions, revisions, setbacks, and small victories […]

Everyone wants more information. More books. More courses. More tutorials. More prompts. More tools. But knowing more isn’t the same as making more. Some of the most knowledgeable people I know rarely finish anything. Meanwhile, others quietly produce remarkable work without claiming to know everything. The difference isn’t intelligence. It’s the willingness to move from […]

The creative advantage isn’t having better tools. It’s asking better questions. Every generation of creators inherits new tools. The successful ones don’t win because they own the newest technology. They win because they learn to ask better questions. A songwriter asks: “What emotion am I really trying to capture?” A producer asks: “What serves the […]

Every creative person has ideas. Some have notebooks full of them. Others keep voice notes, unfinished demos, half-written lyrics, or folders packed with projects that never reached completion. Ideas are exciting because they represent possibility. They make us feel productive before we’ve produced anything. The difficult part comes afterward. The difference between creators who build […]

People often talk about originality as though it’s something you’re born with. I don’t think that’s how it works. Most creative work begins with influence. We imitate. We study. We borrow ideas. We experiment. The real difference isn’t where an idea begins. It’s where you’re willing to take it. Today’s tools can generate endless variations […]

One of the biggest misconceptions in creative work is the belief that success belongs to whoever produces the most. More songs. More books. More videos. More posts. More content. The logic seems obvious. If creating is a numbers game, then producing more should increase your chances of success. But when I look at the artists […]

One of the strangest things happening in the creative world right now is that people are confusing access with expertise. For most of human history, access was the hard part. Access to recording studios. Access to instruments. Access to publishing. Access to distribution. Access to audiences. Today, many of those barriers are disappearing. You can […]

Most artists are not competing against AI. They’re competing against irrelevance. That may sound harsh, but hear me out. The average listener doesn’t wake up in the morning wondering whether a song was created with AI, recorded in a million-dollar studio, or tracked in a bedroom. They wake up wanting to feel something. To be […]

Here’s a prediction. Five years from now, “Made with AI” won’t be a selling point. Nobody will care. For the same reason nobody advertises: “Made with a spell checker.” Or: “Created with a digital audio workstation.” Tools eventually become normal. What people continue to care about is the outcome. Did the song move them? Did […]

When everyone can create, judgment becomes the advantage. Spend enough time online and you’ll eventually stumble into the same argument. Someone shares an AI-generated song. Someone else discovers it was created with artificial intelligence. Then the debate begins. “Are the lyrics original?” “Should AI-generated songs count as real music?” “Is this cheating?” “What happens to […]

The music industry spent years teaching artists to find their voice. Now we’re entering an era where the harder challenge is keeping it. AI can imitate styles. It can imitate structures. It can imitate emotions. What it struggles to imitate is lived experience. That’s why so much generated writing feels familiar. It borrows patterns without […]

The biggest advantage in music today has nothing to do with AI. It has nothing to do with better software. It has nothing to do with faster production. The biggest advantage is knowing what to reject. We’re living in an era where ideas are abundant. Lyrics are abundant. Melodies are abundant. Content is abundant. Everybody […]

A while ago, I decided to run a simple experiment. I generated a lyric using AI. Then I put it aside. A few days later, I read it again as if someone else had written it. My first reaction surprised me. It wasn’t terrible. It wasn’t brilliant either. It was something far more dangerous. It […]

Years ago, I shared a song I was genuinely proud of. I thought the lyric was clever. I thought the message was clear. I thought people would immediately understand what I was trying to communicate. One listener gave me feedback I’ll never forget. They said: “I understand what you’re saying, but I don’t feel anything.” […]

I once spent more time rewriting two lines than I spent writing the rest of the song. Not the chorus. Not the hook. Two lines. The frustrating part was that they weren’t bad. They made sense. They rhymed. They communicated exactly what I wanted to say. And yet every time I sang them, something felt […]

Every few years, the music industry becomes obsessed with a new technology. A new instrument. A new recording technique. A new software platform. A new way of producing sound. Today, the conversation revolves around artificial intelligence. Can AI write songs? Can it generate lyrics? Can it compose melodies? Can it replace songwriters? These questions dominate […]

The most dangerous thing AI has done to songwriting isn’t what people think. It hasn’t stolen jobs. It hasn’t destroyed creativity. It hasn’t killed originality. It’s lowered our standards. A lot of writers now confuse completion with quality. A song gets generated. The verses rhyme. The chorus repeats. The structure looks right. And suddenly people […]

AI is not ruining music. Bad taste is. I’ve seen people blame AI for everything from weak lyrics to generic melodies. That’s convenient. Because it shifts responsibility away from the creator. Let’s be honest. Most forgettable songs were not written by AI. They were written by people. Long before ChatGPT existed, radio stations were already […]

In this brand new episode of The Eritail Show, King Benson recommends the principle of Be-Do-Have as a powerful formula for achieving any type of goal you set for yourself. This program is for you if personal or financial success is your goal, or you just want to start 2025 on a happier and more […]

King Benson dives into the internet hype around self-publishing in this new episode of The Eritail Show. King’s no-holds-barred talking style is more pronounced in this fast-paced minimalist show where he busts some authors’ bubbles on what it means to be a truly self-published author. Watch out if you’re a self-published author! It may be […]

Join King Benson in this second segment of this new episode where he challenges the status quo of self-publishing with his own in-depth understanding of business and investing. King Benson starts with a brief history of how the publishing landscape has changed starting from 2011 when he first joined the industry to its current status […]

Join King Benson in this first segment of this new episode where he challenges the status quo of self-publishing with his own in-depth understanding of business and investing. King Benson starts with a brief history of how the publishing landscape has changed starting from 2011 when he first joined the industry to its current status […]

In this first episode of The Eritail Show, King Benson shares his opinion on who can be, and what it takes to be a self-publisher. King reveals why so many self-publishers fail and what you need to focus on if you want to win. King is utterly convinced that self-publishing is the future. He makes […]