Finally, the Idol collaborators are beginning to leak! Crystal Bowersox recently stepped into the studio with Wayne Wilkins and Priscilla Hamilton. (Read more at Billboard)
She’s the real deal,” producer/songwriter Wayne Wilkins — who hit the studio with Bowersox on Wednesday (June 16) — tells Billboard.com. “I’ve only worked with a couple of ‘Amerian Idol’ contestants before, and in terms of songwriting, she’s the most developed on that front. She literally could sit in a room with anybody, grab a guitar and start writing.”
Wilkins, who has worked on hits with Jordin Sparks (“Battlefield”), Beyoncé (“Sweet Dreams”), David Archuleta and Natasha Bedingfield, says Bowersox arrived to the studio ready to work, with her guitar and lyrics in hand. (Unfortunately, the Ohio native’s favorite mic stand from back home did not make it to the session.)
Along with fellow songwriter Priscilla Hamilton, Wilkins and Bowersox came up with “two pretty great ideas” for songs in their session. “We did one song that I wouldn’t say was totally pop, but it had slightly more of a commercial edge to it,” says Wilkins, who adds that the “Idol” finalist already has “an album’s worth” of material that boasts a more “folky” vibe in the Melissa Etheridge vein. “The other song was a bit darker and had a breakbeat on it. They were contrasting but still fit with her genre.”
It seems so much like everything today in the music business is made so that it gets radio play. It's all so prefabricated. Who cares about the artistry, the artistic merit, the ability to sing, when all you want is to produce an easily digestible radio hit? Hate.
See? It's all about giving the music a "commercial edge". Hate.
I agree that a lot of what's on the radio is junk, but a lot of it is good mainstream pop, too. And some of that has no artistic pretentions, it's just commercial pop music. I think people like this music and will probably still like it even if record labels no longer exist
LOL - Ross you linked to the Reviews. Hattiesberg and Oklaholma.![]()
KAB played with Kris's dad last night!
Theres a link to this one though - seen this? It's from one of those Examiner people.. so .. kinda awkward.
I don't get this at all. I mean I get it but I don't get it. They played with Kris's dad? Can you enlighten me? Where? Why? Etc.
I was just reading you analogy with the movie industry, ross. It's interesting, because I had a different perspective on it, not really knowing what happened back them. I see the current movie and music industries as really similar. Both struggling, both going for the safe options (they don't make all those remakes and sequels for nothing), while there's a rich "independent" world underneath all the blockbusters on the surface.
Link hopping got me on this thread.
Who is going to measure the success of the song by combined sales? Billboard isn't.