I see so many songs with 3-5 or more listed in the credits. I always thought sometimes one person wrote music, and another wrote lyrics. Why can it take around 5 people to write a song?
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Writing pop music is nothing like the vision you have in your head. In your head, a person or band has this brilliant idea for a new song, they get out pen and paper and a guitar or piano, they write it all down, practice it, and go to record it.
Instead, pop music is a capitalist venture. A publisher or producer decides they want to create a new product. They hire professional songwriters and producers to come up with it in a sterile environment, they find a face for it (a pop “musician”), they record it, they spend hundreds of hours in their DAW software making it sound absolutely perfect, then they release it under the illusion that “oh this is Rihanna’s latest masterpiece she came up with”. It’s just like a hollywood movie, overly polished, overly produced, totally fake.
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