The first of a two-part Chart Beat Podcast sparked by Tayla Parx’s Burnout Camp.
“Your job is to empathize,” Tayla Parx says of songwriting.
Specifically, of co-writing, where a collaborator’s mindset is, at its most receptive: “If you’re happy, I’m happy. If you’re sad, I’m depressed.”
Of course, channeling such emotion can take its toll, and that’s what, in part, inspired Parx to launch Burnout, a camp for music creators that took place Oct. 9-13 in Brooklyn and New York City with a key focus on wellness for those responsible for crafting songs, a calling that can leave little time for self-care amid intense competition for chart hits.
As Parx says about the importance of artists being mindful of their well-being in such a potentially draining field, no matter how much their craft is a labor of love, “If you’re not refilling the well, what do you have to give?”
On the latest Billboard Chart Beat Podcast, co-hosts Gary Trust and Trevor Anderson, from the Billboard charts…
