Ke$ha’s new record Warrior came out today, and it’s a predictably hook-heavy collection of radio-and club-ready ‘bangers.’ Who wrote this thing thing, Captain Hook? Peter Hook? TJ Hooker? They should’ve checked if any of those dudes were available for co-producer credits, they asked everyone else.
Instead, she had to settle for the likes of Max Martin and Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco, dudes who eat hooks for breakfast, then digest them and produce perfectly formed little hooky bowel movements. As I pointed out in a review, the multi-writer, multi-producer approach is for both good and ill on the record. The songs are all brilliant, top to bottom, but sometimes they end up sounding like exactly what they are: a team of engineers elbowing each other aside to get noticed. Read the rest.
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