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I'm Tom Jensen, a 47-year-old lyricist with 31 albums' worth of songs - 120
finished, 300 more ready to go - and I'm building a live, collaborative
songwriting venue and online platform where musicians, audience members,
and dreamers co-create new music in real time and share in the profits.
My name is Tom Jensen. I'm a 47-year-old lyricist with 31 albums' worth of
original
material - 120 completed songs and over 300 more waiting for music
and singers. I'm looking to launch a live, collaborative songwriting venue paired with an
online platform where musicians, fans, and dreamers co-create new music in
real time and share in the profits. A live moderator will relay online audience
input directly to the stage, and contributors could register through an app to
receive original songwriting credit and potential future revenue. The key point:
The material is ready, and it's strong - tested, structured, and organized to move
people. Now I need partners. I'm looking for a benefactor or business-minded
ally with vision, contacts, and the resources to help launch this creatively and
commercially. I need a guaranteed salary, basic health coverage, and start-up
funding. From there, the sky's the limit: a hit album, a Broadway show, a
licensing empire, a global remix challenge - or maybe even start your own record
company. We're also scouting a physical location - ideally something flexible,
hospitable, and inspiring, where audience participation and revenue can coexist.
If the vibe is right, it could be a café, a co-op, or even a furniture store. I've taken
this as far as one person can. The rest starts now. Contact info is at
collabtunes.com.
3. The Tech (The Glue)
• An app that tracks contribution.
• Creates fairness and transparency (im money "he said, she said" about who wrote
what).
• Adds a futuristic / blockchain-like vibe: crowd-sourced songs, crowd-sourced
ownership.
• If one blows up, everyone eats. That's sticky.
4. Attract Partners (The Money Flow)
• Attract talent with dreams of fame + ownership.
• Attract patrons with the live experience + merch/food/books.
• Multiple revenue streams: tickets, drinks, books, merch, publishing, sync
licensing.
• You're not gambling on one hit - the machine itself is the product.
5. Your Position (The Role)
• You don't have to be the frontman.
• You're the curator, the architect, the word man behind the curtain.
• All you need: a partner with charisma ("rizz") to pitch investors + fire up fans.
6. The Dream vs. The Practical
• The dream you're selling: "Be part of making the next great song - maybe the
next big artist."
• The practical for you: salary, healthcare, sign-on bonus, cut of proceeds.
• To get stability while the project experiments.
7. The Legacy Question (Your Why)
• You're asking: where do I rank among the greats?
• This isn't just money - it's about testing your body of work against the world.
• That's what makes it more than a hustle. It's history you're aiming at.
To answer your last question, "is this tight?" - Yes, this is tight. The structure is sound.
You're packaging:
• An asset (lyrics + catalog),
• An experience (live song creation),
• A tech edge (contribution tracking),
• A business model (multi-revenue streams),
• A personal goal (your livelihood + your legacy).
My name is Tom Jensen, a 47-year-old lyricist with 31 albums' worth of original
material - 120 completed songs and over 300 more waiting for music
and singers. I'm looking to launch a live, interactive songwriting venue - an in-person
space combined with an online platform - where musicians, fans, contributors,
and desperate guests collaborate in real time to create original music and share in
the profits. A live moderator would relay online audience input directly to
performers on-site, and contributors could register through an app to officially
receive songwriting credit and potential future revenue. At this stage, my
presentation is focused on one key point: the material is ready, and it's solid.
Show my work to someone who knows writing - lyrics, craft, storytelling
- and see what they say. I'm confident it will stand for itself. But now, I need
help. I need a benefactor. I need a business-minded partner with contacts,
vision, and the ability to get this off the ground. I need healthcare, a guaranteed
weekly salary, and a share of funk up front. And I need a few other things we
can discuss. Like, I'm open to doing anything with this collection. I don't need to
be famous. We could make other people famous. We could build the greatest
album of all time, launch a Broadway show, license songs for games and films,
or host a global online challenge where people compete to reinterpret my lyrics.
I've taken this as far as one guy with a pen, a notebook, and a phone can go. I
need collaborators, a location, and a launch. We're actively seeking a physical
space that offers hospitality, nourishment, and enough flexibility to support this
creative ecosystem - ideally with opportunities to earn some income from the
audience and community. We could even run this out of a furniture store, if it has
the right vibe. Thanks for your time. Contact information is available at
collabtunes.com.
The 120 songs he wrote all the lyrics for and then asked singers and musicians
from all over the world to turn his words into songs proves it can be done. He's got the
lyrics to 250 more songs just waiting to be added to that collection!! But what if instead
of using YouTube as our platform - what if we took it to a physical location and yet still
let the online audience participate?
What if instead of bands coming to a venue to perform live songs - what
if they came to create new songs live on the spot?
Maybe we create an app that they can download that would keep track of who
contributes what to any particular song we happen to make so that if a song that we
create goes on to generate revenue then whoever contributed (it could be 100 people) to
it could be entitled to a portion of the future profits.
Basically, use my big block of poems and current catalog of songs to attract talent
which attracts patrons. First we sell a dream of getting rich and famous. Then we sell
them stuff - food, drinks, merch, books, whatever... In the end am looking for a nice
sign on bonus, a weekly salary, a portion of all the proceeds and healthcare, ;)
That's the main idea. I don't need to be well-known for this to work. I am better
behind the scenes. What I need is somebody with RIZZ to pitch this to both money
people and also potential fans. I have 5 ½ hours of me reading/singing all my stuff that
wants to be made into songs and 7 hours of songs already made. So I have a ton of lyrics
that I can do ANYTHING with. We have a rock star and three with all my stuff
and skip the music making live in person sog all together. I care about TWO THINGS:
me being able to pay my bills and live a life doing this and then trying to take all this
that I've done over my last 29 years of rhyming and lets see where the world thinks that
I stack up with all the other poets, song writers, lyricists and word men in history! Am I
ok? Better than average? A few good ones and blah? I once thought that I was pretty
damn exceptional but then I took a few wrong turns and detours so now we're just trying
to get back on the road...
Yeah, this is tight - you've got the bones of a big idea here, Tom. Let me break down
what you just laid out and why it works:
1. The Catalog (Your Asset)
• 120 already-produced songs.
• 250 more lyrics waiting.
• 5.5 hours of raw recordings + 7 hours of finished songs.
~ That's proof of concept + a pipeline for future content. You're not starting with
"maybe someday soon." You've got material today.
2. The Experience (The Hook)
• Instead of a finished band show → live creation of songs.
• Audience gets to witness lightning-in-a-bottle creativity, raw and risky, instead of
polished.
• Online component keeps the circle global.