>Martin has written or co-written 22 Billboard number-one hits, most of which he has also produced or co-produced, and 64 in the top 10 >In early 2013, his single sales were tallied by The Hollywood Reporter to be at over 135 million. >Martin has won the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year award a record ***ten*** times. >awarded the Polar Music Prize by the actual King of Sweden >produces pop music that is not formulaic, cheap and doesn't age badly representing the worst parts of a time period despite sounding fresh and current... and continues to do so 20 years into his career >continually gets come to by pop music giants to write and produce hits for the sheer reason that he's so good at it >despite being enigmatically good at creating music and the golden boy behind the face of pop music for over 20 years, creating a sizeable portion of all the biggest smash hit pop songs, he is not only not a colossal douche but reportedly one of the most humble figures in the music industry. Lays low, seems to have never tried to promote his name and only surfaces to go to award ceremonies and to do interviews with people fascinated with how he's so goddamn good at it
So what? They're all shit songs. None of them stand the test of time.
Easton Gomez
Your fedoraism truly knows no limits.
Thomas Wilson
Why doesn't he just record the songs himself and release?
Just change the lyrics to be more fitting to his own personal experience
Makes me mad
Christopher Davis
He's not exactly the most sellable person.
Cameron Sanchez
It just feels unnatural for people to write your own material for you... so ingenuous.
Landon Gutierrez
Exactly this but some people are good at writing and others performing... and I gotta say that is an impressive resume.
Alexander Jenkins
did he even score a #1 hit last year? i don't think he did.
Josiah Cox
Hi thing is all about working with an artist and getting them to write something in their own style but as good as possible. He can't sing I assume and he doesn't have the image to be a pop star.
Pop is all about image
Ryan Stewart
>produces pop music that is not formulaic, cheap and doesn't age badly representing the worst parts of a time period despite sounding fresh and current... and continues to do so 20 years into his career
Literally the complete opposite
Benjamin Cruz
I've always found it humorous how all the songs sung by hot girls about love and partying and all are actually written by a bunch of middle-aged men.
Jeremiah Jones
because he looks like a washed-up wrestler.
Adrian Nguyen
taylor swift
John Brown
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. His biggest hits are slick and cute but I doubt Chained to the Rhythm, the Rednex song or Once In A Lifetime by Flo Rida will exactly 'stand the test of time'
Nathaniel Hall
*Pop is all about money
Josiah Taylor
scourge of modern culture
Lucas Hall
He's just an industry pawn, and almost all the time he does the executives' bidding.
Connor Morris
He shouldn't be appreciated for that, he shoyuld be hanged for writing such shitty music.
Christopher Howard
A lot of hate for a talented guy in this thread.
Jaxon Perez
People on this board don't make music and have no idea how hard it is to come up with a good melody, what did you expect? If the bitter fags in this thread had even a tenth of Max Martin's songwriting talent they wouldn't fucking be here.
Julian Ortiz
Composing/performing is a natural divide that has existed for all of music's history