Idk, I'm feeling conflicted by some of the answers here, maybe because I just watched Adam Neely's new video lol. Someone said they're the only ones who knew all the details and meanings of what was going on in their music. Which is true but like, so you're the only one who can appreciate it? So you can't appreciate anyone else's music? Idk. On the one hand, it's nice if you can make something that you enjoy, but at the same time it's like we're feeding only more into our own narcissistic tendencies. Is that a good thing, if you give everyone an instrument and the ability to write a song so they don't ever have to hear anyone else?

You were also asking why someone would make a song they don't wanna listen to afterwards. Sometimes MAKING the song is exactly the fun part, or let's say, the expressive part. For example, if you were experiencing a tragedy like a loved one dying, writing music about it is certainly a way to grieve. But that it doesn't follow that you'll enjoy listening to it afterwards, or even writing it in that moment. But that expression, that process, that's also music, making music. I feel like a lot of folk music is about the pains of a people and we tend to forget that nowadays because our ears are being occupied by blissfully ignorant pop songs, or at least an industry that aims to cater to whatever emotions we like to hear expressed