No songs wanted?

I had sent my lyrics samples to a talent management company a few months ago and day before yesterday I sent them a reminder. They replied that there was no current requirement for a song writer. They didn’t say the songs were not good (although I know it is a standard line even if the work is not liked); they said there was no current requirement.

How can there be no requirement for songs? But then, who needs song writers these days? If you listen to current songs, there are standard 15-20 phrases that are repeatedly used in almost all songs. There are around 4 top Hindi song writers these days and they churn up very mediocre songs. Not that they are bad writers: it’s just that, passionate creativity has evaporated somewhere down the line. Arts — writing, painting, sculpting, drama, dance, etc. — have to be passionate; they cannot be commercial products. I’m not saying they don’t have commercial value. I think everything nicely performed/produced attains commercial value. Take for instance painters like Picasso and Van Gogh. Picasso became rich in his lifetime, and Van Gogh’s painting’s fetch millions these days (despaired by poverty, Van Gogh committed suicide). Great works of literature have immense commercial value. Millions of dollars are spent to preserve Da Vinci’s creations. Artists should never have to work for money — it affects their creativity. Money comes on its own if you give your true worth as an artist.