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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
It is kind of odd, but then again there have always been record companies that employ musicians/DJ's to produce that kind of stuff to sell it to clubs, advertising companies etc. Lou Reed himself started out getting paid to write disposable songs for cheap mass-market compilations on the Pickwick label. Apparently people like Jackson Browne and others all started out by going into these corporate places to write disposable songs in a few minutes for some money in exchange.
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It's a fascinating process. I've known a handful of corporate writers - nice people, but definitely backroom geeks. The thing for me is that there's lots of 'you lift me up' (or whatever that Westlife song was called) but there haven't been a pop team as magnificent as Xenomania since... SAW? the Pet Shop Boys? It's a cunt, writing decent pop.