Yeah, not too far off from professional writing I guess.
Yes, if you have the possibility and perhaps skills to record your own music in a way that you yourself have paid for it (you don't owe anyone else anything), that is the better route to go, as you then also own everything up until the point of figuring out how to distribute it.
The record labels usually have contacts with great producers though, and they can always say "_yeah, what you've done doesn't sound bad. But...it sounds dated...it could be soooo much better if..._" and nigh-on promise it will be the difference between millions of listens compared to thousands, and those are difficult things to measure in your own creation. Not signing can be very difficult for some.
Also it is the matter of marketing, but then again, small labels usually do a really poor job of that anyways. Big labels though, they smooch all the right music journalists and radio stations etc, so it is tricky to get in on that unless you are with the big guys, or you already are a big enough name to carry your own torch.
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