The Business of Hit Songwriting with Bonnie McKee
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2022
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Joining us this week on the New Music Business is the hit songwriter and producer, Bonnie McKee. Since the early 2000s, McKee has written 10 singles that have reached #1 in the US and UK, which have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide combined.
McKee is particularly known for collaborating with pop singer Katy Perry, and the duo have written hits such as "California Gurls,” "Teenage Dream", "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)", "Part of Me,” "Wide Awake” and "Roar" together. She has also co-wrote "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz, which became the second-best selling song by a British artist in the digital era. Additional artists who she has worked with include Britney Spears, Kesha, Cher, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Adam Lambert and Mike Tompkins.
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If we want to be a songwriter how do we start? How Exactly can we begin writing for these artist?
Bonnie is such a boss. So ready for her songs to be released!!! xoxo
I’m so specific with my melodies, with reoccurring motifs, development and balance that if anyone where to change it, I wouldn’t be happy. Brilliant podcast. More please. 💙
coming right up!
I grill every weekend.
I've been like that for the 20 years I've been songwriting.
Adore McKees work, it’s so fun, upbeat, energising delicious Americana Pop, and also LOVE her insights and taking the time to share.
13:00 this is golden advice 💪🏾
This is why I love Bonnie
100% All hail Bonnie!
@@ArisTake Thank you Ari for this interview 🙏🏾Your questions are perfect 👌
@@nickepic1863 Thanks Nick!
Yes! Stoked for more from Bonnie. Great interview.🩷🩷🩷
Glorious. One of my fave episodes.
me too!
This was awesome!! Thanks y’all! 🔥💎
Love it! I was so excited when I saw this weeks video was with a song writer! Very eye opening to hear about Bonnie’s creative process along side the business side. Thanks for another super helpful video Ari! And thank you to Bonnie for joining!
What a fantastic interview. Just stumbled on to this channel, and I will subscribe immediately. Ari's interview was stellar and Bonnie's honesty and transparency about her experience as a writer and an artist is solid gold. Many thanks.
This was great, Ari. I related to this so hard. Thank you!
I loved watching this. Thank you!
Very interesting and inspirational!
YES!
Great content bro keep going
thank you!
Great video, super interesting. Bonnie has my dream job, so jealous haha
thanks!
Where do I purchase your book
can you post a picture of the guide? to compare the distributors
Best Music Distribution Companies - Full Comparison Chart 😎 aristake.com/digital-distribution-comparison/
I was so excited for Bonnie when she mentioned that she’s trying to figure out who to use as a distributor.. I was like you’re in the right place, Ari’s got you covered 😎
@@ArisTake thanks!
@@ArisTake which one do you use?
Songwriters don’t get treated right
Yeah there's no way I'm following the advice of keeping the lyrics consistent in the form of "speaking". A Song must be sung. So extended notes and words are necessary. 1000% agree on the storytelling, though.
@@thedealermusic yeah, no.
@@thedealermusic you know it bro!
@@thedealermusic when you know how to write you can tell a story in perfect poetry. That's what it takes.
And if you listened to her, you'd understand that's exactly what she was saying.
You don't "speak" in a song. You "sing" the song in Poetic fashion. It's a misuse of the word. A writer would know that. So would an editor. She just mis spoke. Not that bigga deal brah. Think ya got one of those fat ass frownie lips.
What it comes down to it ss that she just misused the word "to speak".
A song is sung in Harmonic Poetic fashion. A rap, however, is spoken.
When you write a song, you sing it with the effort to try and tell a story. That's what she means by saying "Speaking". Sing so that the words speak to your audience. "The song spoke to me" = "I identified with the song."
Which = write in a story form.
But no, you don't speak in speaking tone. You sing it in harmonic tone.
Misuse of word.
This is a sad road. I never knew how difficult this was for the majority of song writers, until I started releasing music on my own. Paid for streaming services makes artist no money.
Spotify has about 400 million listeners, and is worth about 21 Billion dollars, and they would not exist without the artist, singers, producers or podcasters, yet the artists don't make enough money to live on. Very sad. Best to quit music, go get a decent job and retire with a good net. And Spotify is only one platform, there is still Apple, Pandora, etc.,
Yup - but unfortunately US law dictates songwriter mechanical royalty rate. And major record labels don't want this to change because they're making 4-5x what publishers/songwriters make. It's not just on the streaming services but also (mostly) the labels.
@@ArisTake Wow that is crazy, So it is best to go all bandcamp and try to make that grow, and only sell there, to make more of your money.
@@samjrmusic what’s bandcamp
💉DOPE💊
thanks!
Only few words capture the demise of popular music in the last 30 years as well as the word "top liner". The notion that you can simply slap a melody on top of some pre-produced loop and expect to come up with a great song is absurd. This approach only guarantees that the song will have no musical development as the loop will not change. No change in chord progression, and for sure no modulation. Most people agree, melody and harmony go hand hand. Developing one of the two requires the development of the other. I have the utmost respect for people like Bonnie McKee who actually manage to create music under such conditions.
Nailed it.
thank you so much miss!
Name the movie. 🥹 Wrong emphAsis on the wrong syllABle. 😂
Ari, I have a new distributor for you. 🥹