New Ole Songwriting Camp

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olemajorlyindie
5 minutes ago
Watch out! @haleyreinhart's in the vocal booth! It's gonna be awesome! #olesongcamp

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lots of twitter nuggets to keep up with ..

El o El ‏@Free_in_March 8m
@HaleyReinhart if you have some downtime here's a great article about pop songwriting "The hitmakers behind Rihanna" http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/...t_seabrook ….

Haley Reinhart ‏@HaleyReinhart 4m
@Free_in_March Hmm very ironic..

Excerpt from the article

Top Forty radio was invented by Todd Storz and Bill Stewart, the operator and program director, respectively, of KOWH, an AM station in Omaha, Nebraska, in the early fifties. Like most music programmers of the day, Storz and Stewart provided a little something for everyone. As Marc Fisher writes in his book “Something in the Air” (2007), “The gospel in radio in those days was that no tune ought to be repeated within twenty-four hours of its broadcast—surely listeners would resent having to hear the same song twice in one day.” The eureka moment, as Ben Fong-Torres describes it in “The Hits Just Keep on Coming” (1998), occurred in a restaurant across from the station, where Storz and Stewart would often wait for Storz’s girlfriend, a waitress, to get off work. They noticed that even though the waitresses listened to the same handful of songs on the jukebox all day long, played by different customers, when the place finally cleared out and the staff had the jukebox to themselves they played the very same songs. The men asked the waitresses to identify the most popular tunes on the jukebox, and they went back to the station and started playing them, in heavy rotation. Ratings soared.

In the past decade, however, Top Forty has come back stronger than ever. You hear it in shops, in restaurants, and at sporting events; it’s the music my thirteen-year-old son and his friends listen to on their iPods and dance to at parties. Paradoxically, in an age when an unprecedented range of musical genres is easily available via the Internet, the public’s appetite for hits has never been greater. (The best-selling-singles chart on iTunes, which is calculated from digital sales, and YouTube’s most popular songs, based on online views, match up closely with Billboard ’s Hot 100, which is mainly derived from radio play and sales.) In New York City, contemporary hit radio now dominates FM stations, a remarkable turn of events for anyone old enough to remember when FM radio was the antithesis of Top Forty.

How did this happen? How did mainstream rock, once the source of the catchiest hooks in popular music, become robotic, unimaginative, and predictable, while pop, always the soul of artifice, came to seem creative, experimental, and alive? (Billboard ’s list of the top ten songwriters of the past decade includes only one rock writer, Rob Thomas, who ranks fifth, between Alicia Keys and Max Martin; Stargate comes in ninth.) Whereas rock is about the sound of a band playing together (even when its members aren’t actually together) and features virtuoso solos played on real instruments, today’s Top Forty is almost always machine-made: lush sonic landscapes of beats, loops, and synths in which all the sounds have square edges and shiny surfaces, the voices are Auto-Tuned for pitch, and there are no mistakes. The music sounds sort of like this: thump thooka whompa whomp pish pish pish thumpaty wompah pah pah pah

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haleyreinhart
29 minutes ago · Westlake Recording Studio
Spending a week writing in the historic.. The legendary Westlake Studios. Yeuh. @olemajorlyindie #olesongcamp

[Miguel]

We've touched on the New Yorker article here a couple of times before. The first mention was in March of 2012 when the article was published: http://haleyfans.com/showthread.php?tid=...42#pid5142

[Miguel]

Allison's tweet confirms the songwriting camp has a tie to Rihanna:

allisondevorah
1 day ago · Westlake Recording Studio
Rihanna songwriting camp, day #3

hat tip to PJ

[mercfan3]

If she's getting invited to camps to write for Rihanna, people inside the industry must think highly of her. (Or at least her writing.)

I'm going to cross my fingers for a Rihanna song written by Haley.

This pathway will help her gain a lot of credibility. And typically really helps an artist with radio play once she does put out her own song. ( Bonnie McKee is the recent example.)

[Miguel]

Chad Richardson ‏@chadofalltrades 1h

@HaleyReinhart @clarereynolds @mynority @becauseofallie @olemajorlyindie + @RocNation new friendships that produce hits. #team

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Katrina Bleckley ‏@katrinableckley 48m

Party time with Team @olemajorlyindie and @HaleyReinhart. Perfecto Friday night #freetacos

It's probably a good sign that a member of Haley's legal team makes an effort to be involved in what she is doing.

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Celetia Martin ‏@CeletiaMartin 2h

Omg I LOVE these people!!! So good to catch up with @haleyreinhart @mariamarcus1 at Westlake studios… http://instagram.com/p/fEnplNCOUI/

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[mercfan3]

As always, awesome Dress Haley.

[Miguel]

briana ‏@haleyxfan 2h

@haleyreinhart so did any 'whips and chains excite me' type stuff come out of this week?

Haley Reinhart ‏@HaleyReinhart 2h

@haleyxfan OOoooh yeah.