In this creative
time a lot of people are doing music. When we think about music we artist, the
singers, rappers and pop stars. But! Who
makes all this magic come together what is the process? There are so many
people that are over looked and never mentioned, so many that are trying to be
the next big thing in music but are not artist. Today we will take a look at
some of the behind the scenes people that make the music. A song consist of two very important elements
the beat/ instrumental and the lyrics.
Back in the day most artist wrote their own songs and someone in the
group made the instrumental or beat, but the times have changed. Most major
recording artist do not write their own lyrics and almost all off them can not
make a beat or instrumental. Now there
are some vey talent people out there who can sing and they write there own
songs and writes hits for big names we all know. Ne-yo is the prime example of
being a hit making songwriter as well as being one of the biggest artists of
our times.
“ Aside from
working on his own album, Ne-Yo also collaborates with several other artists.
His works include: Rihanna's top-ten singles Unfaithful, Russian Roulette" and her number-one
hit "Take a Bow, Mario Vazquez's Gallery, Paula DeAnda's Walk Away (Remember Me), and Beyoncé
Knowles' Billboard Hot 100 number-one single Irreplaceable,
which stayed at the top of the chart for ten consecutive weeks. He wrote the
song I'm You for Leona Lewis's
debut album Spirit, and is currently writing songs for
her next album and for the debut album of fellow X Factor winner Alexandra
Burke. He has also been working with Sugababes for
their seventh album,
with member Keisha Buchanan confirming that Ne-Yo had
written a song called 'No More You' for their album. In 2010, he
dueted with Mariah Carey on 'Angel's Cry', a song on
her cancelled album, Angels Advocate. Ne-Yo has also written songs for Celine Dion, Whitney
Houston, Carrie Underwood, Anastacia, Ciara, Corbin Bleu, Enrique
Iglesias and Dima Bilan.
He also collaborated with Lindsay Lohan on
her new material, having already finished "Bossy", a pre-single for her new
album Spirit in the Dark. Ne-Yo confirmed that he had been contacted by producer will.i.am to
work on what would have been Michael
Jackson's new album. However, at the time of Jackson's death,
Ne-Yo's collaborations with him had yet to move past the writing stage. In
an interview in 2010 he said since Jackson's death he's been confused as what
to do with the songs, as he feels that selling them to another artist or even
releasing the songs himself would be disrespectful to Jackson legacy. In 2009,
he wrote Truth (Saigo no Shinjitsu) for
Japanese pop group w-inds.”(Wiki, 2013)
In addition to a
star songwriter like I mentioned before you need a just a good producer. Some
songs are written to the instrumental or some instrumentals are made around a
song. Either way the marriage of the two is very important to make a good song.
Some well-known producers are Rick Rubin, Jermaine Dupri, Timberland, DR. Dre,
Stargate, Rodney Jerkins and Swizz beats are just a few go to names that artist
looking for sure hits frequent. Now that
we have the lyrics and the song we don’t right…wrong. One of the most important
things when releasing a song is that it is mixed and mastered properly. YoungGuru is one of the best engineers in the game he makes sure that your songs are
sonically crisp and consistent.
So in a whole,
you need good lyric’s, a good beat, and a crisp sound and wha la like magic you
have a mater piece.
References;
http://www.vibe.com/photo-gallery/vibe-unsung-heroes-36-best-songwriters-2000s
http://www.djyoungguru.com/
