just figured out, what? pop has always been pretty people…
Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ugly people are still making it, pop acts have just figured out that if you make a pretty person pretend to sing it it sells better.
TheKingBee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I am convinced that producers go out with a company checkbook and standard boilerplate, find acts that have good songs, then buy the rights to those songs.
They then give the songs to larger pop artists and never credit the original artist because there is no need. They likely pay well for a decent song.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They do.
It’s extremely rare that people like Taylor Swift get as big as she is from writing her own songs.
There are actual classes you can take on how to write pop songs, taught by people who made pop artists big.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They pay song writers to create songs.
Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
One of the biggest examples of this for me was " even if it breaks your heart". I was pretty happy hearing a pop country song with decent lyrics, to find out it was written by Will Hoge and Eli Young Band bought the rights.