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You need to know who Max Martin is right now

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  • 03-07-2015 11:09am
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    Boring username
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    Please excuse the blatant clickbait title change, I am experimenting with mass marketing manipulation at the moment.

    Anway....what have all these songs got it common?
    • Taylor Swift- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
    • Taylor Swift- "Shake It Off"
    • Taylor Swift-"Bad Blood"
    • Taylor Swift- “I Knew You Were Trouble”
    • Bon Jovi-"It's my Life"
    • Backstreet Boys- “I Want It That Way”
    • Backstreet Boys- “Quit Playin’ Games (With My Heart)”
    • Katy Perry- "Roar"
    • Katy Perry- “Hot N Cold”
    • Katy Perry- "I Kissed a Girl"
    • Katy Perry feat. Juicy J- "Dark Horse"
    • Katy Perry featuring Kanye West- "E.T."
    • Katy Perry- "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"
    • Katy Perry-"Part of Me"
    • Katy Perry- “Wide Awake”
    • Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg- "California Gurls"
    • Katy Perry- "Teenage Dream"
    • Ellie Goulding-"Love me like you do"
    • Ariana Grande- “Break Free”
    • Ariana Grande, Jessie J, Nicki Minaj- “Bang Bang”
    • Jessie J-“Domino”
    • Maroon 5- "One More Night"
    • Britney Spears- "…Baby One More Time"
    • Britney Spears- "Oops I did it again"
    • 'N Sync- "It's Gonna Be Me"
    • P!nk- "So What"
    • P!nk- "Raise Your Glass"
    • James Blunt-"Carry you home"
    • Kelly Clarkson- "My Life Would Suck Without You"
    • Kelly Clarkson- "Since you've been gone"
    • Nicki Minaj-"Va Va Voom"
    • Britney Spears- "3"
    • Britney Spears- "Hold It Against Me"
    • Usher – “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” (Feat. Pitbull)
    • Avril Lavigne – “What The Hell”
    • Taio Cruz – “Dynamite”

    If you said that they were all written and/or produced by one man, then you are right!


    The full line up is even more astonishing-most of these songs you have heard, some you haven't:
    http://www.maratone.se/producers/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin_production_discography
    http://www.cracked.com/article_18845_6-secret-monopolies-you-didnt-know-run-world_p2.html


    Just in case you thought 'artists' still existed in the mainstream music scene. They were squeezed out or sidelined years ago. It's all about entertainment and dollah bills now babez!

    Standing by for lots of butthurt fanboys and girls..... :pac:


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    #2
    Boring username
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    And now for a little mischief.....


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    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Yeah..... here's a video about the guy



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    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Probably the most annoying song list ever!


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    Boring username wrote: »

    Anway....what have all these songs got it common?

    :

    They are all sh1t


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    Badly Drunk Boy
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    I feel like my eyes have been opened to the ultimate Truth!


    (I've only ever heard of 4 of those songs. I think I'm glad of that.)


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    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    I wonder how much he is worth?


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    kneemos
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    You mean Brittany didn't write her own songs!

    For shame.


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    kneemos
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    BattleCorp wrote: »
    I wonder how much he is worth?


    Didn't watch the video now did ya?


    No you didn't.


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    Generic Dreadhead
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Didn't watch the video now did ya?

    No you didn't.

    Easier to just comment yanno :pac:


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    #11
    evolving_doors
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    this thread is going nowhere..... unless you can confirm he's part of the illuminatii. Then it would make sense.


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    Banjo String
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    BattleCorp wrote: »
    I wonder how much he is worth?

    Bout fiddy tree.


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    Nodin
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    Boring username wrote: »
    .............
    Standing by for lots of butthurt fanboys and girls..... :pac:

    Yes, as a life long Katie perry fan I'm shocked, hurt and disgusted at her lack of musical integrity. But I suppose I'll have to wipe the tears from my greying beard and carry on......despite the pain, the terrible, terrible pain.


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    Fat Christy
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    I love all of those songs!


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    Boring username
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    They are all sh1t

    That's the thing though, many of them actually aren't sh1t. They're nauseating catchy 'earworms' than get stuck in your head. Are they art? Not a hope. Bubblegum pop entertainment? Very much so. Some of the melodies and chord changes are extremely well crafted, as well as the clever use of vocal double-tracking. Take that Katy Perry song, hot n' cold-you could imagine Green Day singing that.
    The performers are still pond life though.


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    BattleCorp
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    They are all sh1t


    Solid gold sh1t. $$$


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    NachoBusiness
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    Anyone remember the MTV live performance where Kelly Clarkson sung Since You've Been Gone in faux rain with no underwear on?

    Just me? Really? Fair enough so.


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    brummytom
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Didn't watch the video now did ya?


    No you didn't.
    I did and ended up wanting to throw my laptop out the window. What an annoying prick.


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    inforfun
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    Why does hat guy in that youtube clip look like Amy Farah Fowler with pink hair?

    And the thing all those song have in common is that they are utter ****. But then againl, only a few songs were not in the last 20/25 years


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    SmilesInMass
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    inforfun wrote: »
    Why does hat guy in that youtube clip look like Amy Farah Fowler with pink hair?

    And the thing all those song have in common is that they are utter ****. But then againl, only a few songs were not in the last 20/25 years

    Out of the thousands and thousands of songs released in the last 20/25 years, only a few were good? I think you've been listening to the wrong music tbh


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    Boring username
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    brummytom wrote: »
    I did and ended up wanting to throw my laptop out the window. What an annoying prick.

    That shriek in the first half second stirred some sort of primitive rage within me.


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    Adyx
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    This is pretty much how popular music has always been since its conception.


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    yellowlabrador
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    inforfun
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    SmilesInMass wrote: »
    Out of the thousands and thousands of songs released in the last 20/25 years, only a few were good? I think you've been listening to the wrong music tbh

    Just not a big fan of the "look-mommy-no-hands" music.

    IMO a DJ has a case full of vinyl or at a stretch cd's ... not a laptop.


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    #25
    Irish Guitarist
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    Not exactly hard to believe they're written by the same person. They're not incredibly different or anything. If you said the same person wrote Straight Outta Compton and Knees Up Mother Brown that would be a bit of a surprise alright.


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    biko
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    Max Martin is so cool. I really liked the latest film, Furry Road.


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    pablomakaveli
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    The edginess in this thread "these songs are ****". Yes they probably are but they've been very successful. If you want a successful song, you want something thats simple,catchy and has a broad appeal. That guy has cracked the formula for that and is minted for it. Have to give him credit where it's due.


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    SmilesInMass
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    inforfun wrote: »
    Just not a big fan of the "look-mommy-no-hands" music.

    IMO a DJ has a case full of vinyl or at a stretch cd's ... not a laptop.

    Yeah I'm in the same boat. But there has been tons of that coming out over the years as well to be fair, Boiler Room is the site to check out for good DJing.


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    #29
    Boring username
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    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    The edginess in this thread "these songs are ****". Yes they probably are but they've been very successful. If you want a successful song, you want something thats simple,catchy and has a broad appeal. That guy has cracked the formula for that and is minted for it. Have to give him credit where it's due.

    I agree with you here. There's a certain genius in creating simple catchy songs like Martin does. As I said earlier, art is DEAD now, so why not accept that and milk the cattle for all they are worth.


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    #30
    Boring username
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    Oh very clever, the mods are changing the title randomly to keep in tune (hah) with the clickbait feel of this thread. :)


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    Conall Cernach
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    Boring username wrote: »
    I agree with you here. There's a certain genius in creating simple catchy songs like Martin does. As I said earlier, art is DEAD now, so why not accept that and milk the cattle for all they are worth.

    That "Shake it off" has got to be one of the most insanely catchy songs of the last few years. If this guy had a hand in writing it or any other hit songs then fair dues to him, it's not as if he'd doing anything new this is just another incarnation of Tin Pan Alley. You'd think the way some people are going on that all pop music was some sort of deep and meaningful expression of a tortured soul until this guy came along and ruined it by writing and producing for good looking, easily marketable pop stars.


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