Fantastic look at the sequence of today’s pop hit creation process.
Side note, I’d like to urge folks to support at least one newspaper or journalism source, whether it be The New York Times, The Guardian, or your favorite blog. Pick one, buy a subscription, help keep that vital flame alive.
I’m not paying for something I don’t use. That’s why I quit Apple Music.
The New York Times is the best. Not as good as it was 30 years ago, but the past few years have stretched them and made them much better. Like Watergate made the Post great. In the end, one of Trump’s greatest regrets will have been making the Washington Post, New York Times, and many other publications better for waking up and doing their jobs like they should have always been doing.
As an Apple fangirl, I was turned off by NYT slanted articles against Apple… so I went with the Washington Post for my news subscription. (But that’s just my biases showing.)
One of my daughter’s high school friends is now a staff songwriter for a big record company. On one hand, it’s great that talented people, who probably would never make it as an act, can still write and make money doing what they love. On the other hand, as a musician who grew up gathering the band in a warehouse or garage and banging out songs as a group in real time and then performing them live, watching this thing come together like this is just completely uninspiring to me.
I don’t go to public school any more. I don’t personally use most of the nation’s interstate highways. But, since I benefit from what they provide, I’m happy to help pay for both.
Just to echo your comments, sadly, not much music is “written” these days… it’s all generated..
Watching the video is just depressing. Why? Because I have always felt the creative talent behind the creation of anything, whether its music/film or art of any kind, should be the ones getting the credit. Pop music today is manufactured, its not organic with the star being the creator as well (for the most part).
Instead you get guys like Zedd who take all the credit. Ironically enough, they even tried so hard to find a vocalist who sounded like the original song writer.
Now I know not every songwriter wants to be the person on-stage in front of cameras. There’s still something wrong to me about giving credit to someone like Zedd (he claims it as his own creation), who had very little to do with the creative process. The creative people are the ones who define culture.
The headline is accurate. Pop hits are “made”.