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More update cause I'm geeking out now: Another way to look at it is Phil Spector needed 4 entire Beatles to churn out hit record after hit record. Today someon
by skrebbel 3y ago
More update cause I'm geeking out now:
Another way to look at it is Phil Spector needed 4 entire Beatles to churn out hit record after hit record. Today someone in his position (a person in a studio with lots of gear) (or just a laptop even) can arguably make an entire hit record on their own, without anyone singing or playing an instrument. Is that really a different role? In a way it is, because you're no longer managing people. But in many other ways it isn't - it's using gear to make a record.
- redwall_hp 3y agoInstrumentalists and singers are just instruments a producer plays. And now we have DAWs and VOCALOID. Just as the Beatles would be no more than a skiffle band playing bars without George Martin, Stock-Aitken-Waterman is responsible for huge 80s hits from Dead or Alive, Rick Astley, Bananarama, etc..
- skrebbel 3y agoThe Beatles did write their hit records themselves though. Lots of people helped making it Sound Real Good but unlike Rick Astley they did write the songs. Not that it matters, in my opinion, a good song is a good song. But sometimes the producer plays the singers and instrumentalists and sometimes it’s more the other way around.