The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
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Ninety percent of the revenues in the record business come from ten percent of the songs.
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In addition to working rhythmically, the sound of the words had to fit with the melody, an approach to songwriting that Denniz’s great protégé, Max Martin, would later call “melodic math.”
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Freed from making sense, the lyricists’ horizons are boundless.