Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
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Re: Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
#2It’s funny how many contributions to classic records are uncredited, eg. the opening riff of My Girl.
Re: Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
#3It's a simple answer: remuneration.
Songwriters get paid mechanical royalties, performance royalties, and synch fees anytime the song is used. Bands, for example, only get paid when their specific recording gets played.
Therefore, if something gets remixed, covered, etc. you want to be the songwriter, not the band.
Re: Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
#4It's a simple answer: remuneration. Songwriters get paid mechanical royalties, performance royalties, and synch fees anytime the song is used. Bands, for example, only get paid when their specific recording gets played. Therefore, if something gets remixed, covered, etc. you want to be the songwriter , not the band .
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Re: Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
#5The answer to the question the article poses, FTA: Because the definition of "songwriting" has changed since the 1960s, and not just due to "sampling."
It's still a decent read, but if you want to argue the nuance, this is what the article says.
Re: Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
#6The answer to the question the article poses, FTA: Because the definition of "songwriting" has changed since the 1960s, and not just due to "sampling." It's still a decent read, but if you want to argue the nuance, this is what the article says.
Can't pull the tricks from The KLF's The Manual: How to Have a Number 1 the Easy Way to get free and uncredited songwriting work out of people anymore, then?
Re: Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
#7It's a simple answer: remuneration. Songwriters get paid mechanical royalties, performance royalties, and synch fees anytime the song is used. Bands, for example, only get paid when their specific recording gets played. Therefore, if something gets remixed, covered, etc. you want to be the songwriter , not the band .
Reminds me of a story about Gene Roddenberry. (of Star Trek fame) Apparently he wrote lyrics to the original series theme song so that he'd get half the royalties every time it was played even though the lyrics weren't used. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, 1997, pp 178, 185)
Re: Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
#8It's a simple answer: remuneration. Songwriters get paid mechanical royalties, performance royalties, and synch fees anytime the song is used. Bands, for example, only get paid when their specific recording gets played. Therefore, if something gets remixed, covered, etc. you want to be the songwriter , not the band .
Maybe this is how AI will work. Every contributor to the data set gets micropennies per inference century (a reasonable measure).
Of course future industrial foundational models will be bought and paid for (and royalty free) for the companies that assemble them.
Re: Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
#9It's a simple answer: remuneration. Songwriters get paid mechanical royalties, performance royalties, and synch fees anytime the song is used. Bands, for example, only get paid when their specific recording gets played. Therefore, if something gets remixed, covered, etc. you want to be the songwriter , not the band .
You are spot on
Another factor here is that you never know which one of your or your teams songs will be a hit…and so many have a agreement to include eachother in their work
Little bit how VC funds work
Re: Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
#10It's a simple answer: remuneration. Songwriters get paid mechanical royalties, performance royalties, and synch fees anytime the song is used. Bands, for example, only get paid when their specific recording gets played. Therefore, if something gets remixed, covered, etc. you want to be the songwriter , not the band .
Maybe this is how AI will work. Every contributor to the data set gets micropennies per inference century (a reasonable measure). Of course future industrial foundational models will be bought and paid for (and royalty free) for the companies that assemble them.
The entire point of AI currently is to NOT remunerate.