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Världens största låtskrivare, Max Martin, överraskade Alexander Kronlund på 50-årsdagen i TV4:s Idol-final 2021.
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- Idol Sverige
- Bon Jovi – “It’s My Life”
- Daughtry – “Feels Like Tonight”
- Living Things – “Oxygen”
- Becky G – “Can’t Get Enough”
- Marion Raven – “Break You”
- The Veronicas – “4Ever”
- Justin Bieber – “Beauty and A Beat”
- Maroon 5 – “One More Night”
- Christina Aguilera – “Your Body”
- Carolina Liar – “Show Me What I’m Looking For”
Look, we’re starting at the bottom here. I don’t think “It’s My Life” is one of Max Martin’s best songs or one of Bon Jovi’s best songs. (I really don’t like Bon Jovi at all, frankly, but I’ll ride for those Slippery When Wet singles.) But this list is an overview of Max Martin’s career, and this is the kind of work Max Martin was getting right aro...
This song is no better than the Bon Jovi song; it ranks a slot higher because Chris Daughtry isn’t as irritating as Jon Bon Jovi. Remember Chris Daughtry? He came in fourth on the fifth season of American Idol. Taylor Hicks won that year. 2006. Remember that? Max Martin does these things now and then: a song or two for an Idol contestant’s debut al...
OK, so this one is arguably worse than the songs at #29 and #30, but none of these three songs are actually any good, and this one gets points for having the most bizarre backstory. Living Things were a grimy garage-punk band from St. Louis who were often compared to the Stooges and the Ramones. They were inexplicably signed by Jive Records who wer...
Aside from a random guest verse here or there, Martin doesn’t work with rappers very often, and when he does, the rapping seems … a little out of place. This makes sense, considering the guy builds songs around melody and vocals, and he employs lyrics only to the extent those lyrics serve the melody. Rapping is the exact antithesis of Martin’s enti...
It’s hard to refer to any of Martin’s 21st century records as “deep cuts,” but there are songs he’s made with a number of artists that Americans probably wouldn’t know unless they were Max Martin obsessives. Among those artists are Marion Raven (from Norway) and Lesley Roy (from Ireland), both of whom Martin invested in pretty heavily. Martin produ...
So America didn’t need another one of P!nk, Avril, or Kelly Clarkson … but maybe we needed another two? The Veronicas are Australian identical-twin sisters Lisa and Jessica Origliasso, and their debut album, 2005’s The Secret Life of…, came out on Sire with some serious muscle behind it. Along with Martin, the album’s writing and production credits...
Fun fact: Justin Bieber has a co-writing credit on all but one of the 13 songs on his 2012 album, Believe. The one exception? “Beauty And A Beat,” which was co-written by a team led by Martin and pop-EDM producer Zedd (the two would pair up again on Ariana Grande’s “Break Free”). “Beauty And A Beat” is, to date, the only Bieber track on which Marti...
I know Maroon 5 are supposedly a contemptible band, but honestly, I don’t have any strong feelings toward them either way. I don’t go out of my way to listen to them, but sometimes I hear their songs on the radio and they sound OK to me. There are ancillary factors that warm me to them, too. Like: I watched the first few seasons of The Voice and I ...
This placement — Christina Aguilera one spot higher than her Voice colleague Adam Levine — is a coincidence; I didn’t recognize it had shaken out this way until just now. Consider it a rare, small victory for Aguilera; “Your Body” was released the same year as “One More Night,” but the two songs could not have been met with more disparate reception...
You know this song. Yes you do. You thought it was by Snow Patrol. But it’s by Carolina Liar, an indie-sounding “band” built around frontman Chad Wolf. The Carolina Liar story is a weird one: Wolf is a South Carolina native (hence the band’s name) who at 22 moved to L.A., where he got an internship with pop-songwriting titan Diane Warren, who helpe...
Feb 3, 2014 · Meet Swedish music producer Max Martin, who has personally churned out more Billboard singles than Michael Jackson and Madonna combined. He is probably the world’s most criminally unknown pop music songwriter.
Nov 19, 2019 · Martin has become such a one-man hit factory over the past two-and-a-half decades that 30 of his songs have now been baked into a new jukebox musical officially opening in London’s West End...
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He revealed that one of the biggest inspirations in his career has been Prince. This starts with his decision not to do interviews. “I thought it was so cool that all you knew about Prince...
Feb 28, 2017 · Hitmaker and songwriter Max Martin has given a rare interview discussing how to write the perfect pop song. Here's what we learned.
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