The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
Categories: Arts & Photography
John Seabrook goes behind the scenes of the hit factories that write and produce pop songs, showing how hits are engineered to be hard to ignore. His 2015 book profiles songwriters and producers such as Max Martin and Ester Dean alongside stars like Katy Perry and Rihanna. Seabrook traces how a new way of building songs from hooks and teams of specialists grew out of Swedish studios, and how it has reshaped marketing, technology and the way listeners hear music.
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- Max Levchin
- Ryan Holiday
- Shane Parrish: “This is a tough recommendation because it simultaneously fascinates and horrors me. The book is about the development of modern glossy pop music.”