It’s already a kind of that. Most pop production sessions, from what I hear, start with listening to whatever is hot at that time. Then it’s a case of making something as similar as possible without drawing too many parallels as to get sued.
Get a good or interesting person, whack a dollop of ottertune on it and put it out.
There’s so much more I could write but it’s all pretty self evident. Universal execs are going to be very happy not to have to deal with musicians, producers and artists, they’ve always been a pain, what with all their opinions and feelings.
Now their children play at music with prompts, like even more so than Mark Ronson.
Yeah I can understand.
Since early hiphop we’ve known how bad the labels are. Rappers don’t stay quiet, they will speak truth without filter.
With the internet, things changed… until the labels took over that too.
I spent a fair bit of time with Keith LeBlanc who was the drummer at Sugar Hill and cut a lot of the Fubky 4 Plus 1, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Flash etc. Sylvia Robinson was very happy when drum machines became popular… a lot of drummers lost their jobs. Keith took a different path and became the most in demand programmer in New York. There’s always been culture shifts and talented people adapt, trouble is talented people don’t run Universal. Those folks make Suge Knight look like a pussy.
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