(04-05-2013, 06:15 PM)mercfan3 Wrote: Yea, I like the song. But I don't like it for Haley. Only because I like Haley to not be a part of that world...

(04-05-2013, 05:56 PM)taperjean_girl Wrote: I can actually hear it being a hit if the song was given to someone like Rhianna or Sia. It fits with their electro pop vibe.

(04-04-2013, 07:06 PM)Haleylvr4evr Wrote: Since she wrote it if another artist records this song, will she get some of the money when people buy it?

Quote:The-Dream isn’t an underdog, but he plays one on his solo albums. It isn’t his likeliest role: A critically adored songwriter, he’s helped to pen galvanizing, era-defining hits for Justin Bieber (Baby, more than 3 million copies sold in the U.S.), Rihanna (Umbrella, north of 4 million), and Beyoncé (Single Ladies, 5 million-plus). Beyond that, his résumé is heavy on performers too huge to require surnames—Madonna, Britney, Usher, Mariah. He’s told interviewers that his earnings from co-writing Umbrella alone were $15 million: a staggering haul that starts to resemble a bargain when you consider that the song single-handedly enabled Rihanna’s transformation in 2007 from a semi-anonymous pop trifle into a bona fide arena-filling icon.

And yet The-Dream has long yearned to be a star himself, not merely the facilitator of others’ stardom...

...But The-Dream has yet to break fully from a vast coterie of aspiring stars who write for established acts while plotting their own ascents. Major labels once nurtured careers—each album was a brick in a larger, steadily expanding edifice—but today the industry puts as much weight on first-week album sales as Hollywood does on opening-weekend receipts. For most pop acts, “artist development” has come to mean slugging away in the farm leagues in hopes of learning enough (and scoring sufficient connections) to climb to the big time.