MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: The Who sucks fucking dicks

OK, let's have some stupid trivia about where bands got their material from.

Hanson wrote all their own songs, and played all their instruments with the exception of drums on MMMBop. Originally, MMMBop was meant to be a far less up-beat ballad, but the producer convinced them they were better off hiring a session drummer and selling to teen girls on cuteness factor. It makes the song quite ironic because it sound so upbeat and cheerful while the lyrics about how you most of your friends won't be there for you long term.

All of Tatu's songs on their first album were written by a child psychologist/counselor. Hence shit about teenage lesbians not being accepted by their parents, girls in love with gay boys, etc. Pretending to be lesbians was always just a gimmick, and it fell apart when one of them got pregnant to the other one's boyfriend.

Stefani "Lady Gaga" Germanotta writes all her own material, and maintains tight control over production, music video content, choreography, costumes, and live shows. Before her recording career, Sony/ATV hired her to write songs for various acts, including Britney Spears, New Kids on the Block, Fergie, and The Pussycat Dolls. She also recorded reference vocals for various performers.

Leah Haywood recorded a couple of horribly autotuned pop tunes (e.g. Taking Back What's Mine), and backing vocals for some other acts (e.g. on Celine Dion's "That's the Way it Is"), but seemed to get out of singing as quickly as possible. Since then she's done writing and production work for acts including Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj, and Ashley Tisdale, but avoided the microphone. It's like singing a couple of throw-away pop tunes was just a way for her to get a foot in the door before moving to the behind-the-scenes work she actually wanted to do.

Prince wrote some of The Bangles', Cyndi Lauper's and Sinead O'Connor's biggest hits, but you already knew that.

Max Martin is a pop hit machine, like the SAW of the 21st century. Britney Spears, Pink, Taylor Swift, and in particular Katy Perry, all owe chart-topping hits to him. Of course, kids these days don't realise just how many hits SAW shit out in the '80s - Kylie Minogue owes her music career to SAW.