| interesting and important topic, but not sure if i understand your question completely.
The truthful and honest reality now is that a good song produced poorly will many times be overlooked by a polished turd (or bad song produced great).
But better yet, have a good song and great production and it will obviously always win out. But I guess what I'm saying and what I experience on a regular basis, is that a good song will not always get through the hoops and loops without great production. This is something that has honestly changed in the last 1-2 years.
There are less and less A&R and publisher people that are seeing through the stuff. The demos now days are coming to the table very polished regardless of how good the song is.
So if you have a good song and don't have the capability to have great production, then you might be better off to strip it down as much as possible and go with the "less is more" mentality...
I have no idea if that is the sort of opinion you're asking. And I know I said some redundant common sense stuff....
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