JPF Home Page Forums General Messages Songwriter Message Forum Multiple upon Multiple upon Multiple Songwriters on one Song

Definitely the truth. I believe some of it is due to business issues and some of it is due to the production process.

As far as the production process goes, I can offer a small example of one of Justice's songs we are recording for her new cd. The song is Wish. Spencer Hansen wrote the music. Justice came up with the idea for the song and part of the first verse and basic for the hook. I wrote a set of lyrics. We went to the studio and started working on a melody. TJ Sadler, the producer for the song, came up with the melody and also made substantial changes in the chous, rewriting it almost completely. Then we threw out my bridge and brought in Hector Valladerez, a rapper, to do a rap for the bridge. He wrote and performed the bridge rap. Justice recorded the vocals. So far there are about 30 tracks for the song. We will also call in another producer, Eric the man, who is going to listen and provide his input. He may write some guitar parts to add. Then it will go to Lucas Kellison for final mixing. Lucas may have some ideas for adding parts or making changes in the song. So how many songwriters will there finally be? Maybe seven.... and all will have contributed materially to shaping the song.