Like, Thats cool, but you should listen to this Neil Young song.
But the impetus for those seemingly throwback moves almost always comes from the artists themselves.
He blames a destructive focus at the time on virality and instant success.
When Atlantic Records dropped Chappell Roan, Dan Nigro saw it as an opportunity, starting his own imprint to put out her music.AFP via Getty Images
Nobody was looking at it for the sake of posterity or building a catalog, he says.
Its using similar chords.
A song is a song and then you dress it up with production.
You could dress it up with a guitar.
You could dress it up with a Juno synth.
Other producers always ask me, like, How doyouwrite the songs?
And then we write a song to the track.
Our songs are so song-focused.
We write the songs first, and then when were done writing the song,thenwe produce the song.
I started going through the songs, and I feel like we just kept on missing the mark.
But because we have computers now, its harder for bands to form.
I dont need other people to do that.
She was like, I want it to feel really raw and live and the tempos to fluctuate.
Im like, Okay, I know exactly how to do that.
The amount of times Ive been hit up by a record label We have this artist.
They have this 15-second clip on the internet.
Its literally not a song, its a part of a song.
Can you get together with that artist and make it a song?
It became this thing where people were finding these tidbits and trying to make it into a whole production.
Record labels werent focusing on any sort of artist development.
I remember getting mad because I know her personality and it is both.
Not onlycanshe be both, but she sounds great being both.
After some workshopping in the studio, we came up withFemininomenon.
Then we were like this really isnt captivating enough for four minutes.
So I feel very fortunate that we were able to create that song.
How did it work?We couldnt have made that song unless we were super-close.
Max Martin uses the phrase, daring to suck, and you have to dare to suck sometimes.
Were just getting started.
Weve written some great songs we feel really excited about, and more songs will come over time.
Chappell has so much confidence in what shes doing and that always shines through in the music.
Do you think itll come out next year?I think its too early to tell.
