Message 35/73
Date: 03-Oct-02 @ 11:46 PM -
RE: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
yeah roles ahve changed so much... the whole industry is geared to systems implemnted years ago, but then isnt alot of life?.. like we have stuff the www can do but cable technology to peoples front-door is years behind - by now it all should be optical.
But anyways.. in the old days the publisher paid to gett he songs recorded so that a deal could be obtained.... that was always what they did because after all without a listenable product they had nothing to sell. And they are supposed to go out and get a deal too.
Then you get the doubledeals, where the publishing is a condition of the record deal and the company owns it all, both rights.
you can form your own company and collect the royalties, or sub-licence the publishing to a large publisher...
I think there is two types of pop production - the one where the track is constructed round a song probably written by a guitarist or at a keyboard... a self contained song, and that's mor elike a constrction process to me cos the production really doesnt do that much to the product most times.
Then you got the more organic pop song whoich grows out of a collaboration between writer and producer so it might have more character.
there's alot of work in both technique and arrangements to get contemporary pop/rnb BV's for example, half of it is in the recording processing mix techniques and the rest is the ability to arrange layered vocals interestingly.
The overall effect on some of the better commercial pop is quite lush tho... I mean, mebbe if you look at it like a job, with emotional detatchment to some extent (in the right areas) then it can be fun, anyways it's not as easy as people think... you gotta compliment the basic song and at the same time get a unique sound, and work to get the best out of the singer/s etc.