Why The Music Industry Sucks! - Part Two

Max Martin is probably not a name you are familiar with. In fact, it’s likely that eighty percent of you have never even heard of him. Strangely enough, he is a Grammy nominated artist with a string of number one hits. So why don’t you know him? Well that’s because he is a songwriter, not a performer. He has written an extensive list of songs for artists such as Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, N’Sync and Bon Jovi. Songs we have all heard before…songs that we hear almost every day!

I’m going to use Britney Spears as an example here. If anyone feels the need to defend her ‘honour’ by posting a video on Youtube (ala Chris Crocker) then please do so. I would love to see it. Anyway….Britney Spears has received many awards for songs that she had no part in creating. Sure, she does have an amazing vocal talent (or did about 3 years ago) but that’s all she has. I think its time that huge name performers tried to impress their fans by actually writing their own material.

To me the most incredible part of being a musician is not only the performing, but the fact that people are singing along to a song that I created. I don’t want my fans to clap along to a song that I didn’t write the lyrics for…didn’t write the music for and was basically just told were my voice needed to go. How can you expect your fans to believe in what you are singing if you didn’t write it yourself?

Admittedly not everyone can write a song and not everyone can sing well. Therefore there will always be an over abundance of performers with no writing talent and songwriters with absolutely no vocal ability. Having a good song is just as important as having good vocal talent. So why can’t Britney change her album cover to this?
~Grox~