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Originally Posted by OldSkool  I wasn't addressing songwriting skills, I was addressing beatmaking, which I thought was what you were questioning.
The formula for making a hit song I think is really fairly straightforward:
1) make it sound like all the other mung out there - use Autotune and vocoder until it makes the singer sound like an alien zombie. All instrumental sound must come from either synths (as cold and cliched sounding as possible, heavy layers of saw waves) or samplers. Ideally, samples of synths and samplers. Best would be samples of samples of synths and samplers.
2) marketing, marketing, marketing. For variety - more marketing.
I think songwriting skill of the sort you seem to be referring to is not all that important if you really want to be heard by millions. |
Make a hit pop song, then we'll talk. It's not that easy. Your name says it all... Why would an Old School guy like the new-school music out there? They don't even market the music at you anyway. I know that if you go through the process of writing a pop song, producing, arranging, mixing, mastering etc etc. You'll see that it's not a walk in the park, because it's easy to create dead spots. If you have any dead spots in a pop song, you're cooked.