To compete with music powerhouses like L.A., Atlanta, and Nashville, a pop producer started a New York songwriting camp, like speed dating for musicians.
New Yorkers are supposed to be tough, but it’s easy to hurt their feelings. All you have to do is imply that New York is not the center of the universe. “From Tin Pan Alley to CBGB to the birth of hip-hop, there’s this story of New York as the birthplace of all the music that matters,” Danny Ross, a pop producer and songwriter who grew up on Long Island, said the other day. There’s nothing wrong with this story except that, for at least a decade, it hasn’t been true.
“I secretly have preferences, but I don’t like to sway the room too much,” Grace VanderWaal said. “Maybe some soulful, bendy chords. Nothing too happy.” “Are there any instruments in here?” VanderWaal asked, scanning the room: a synthesizer, a six-string bass, a mandolin, and a lot of throw pillows. “I can’t write a song on a fucking mandolin.” She plugged in the synthesizer. “Give me, like, a fucked-up Mellotron sound?” she said to Sim. She played a warbly two-chord progression, Sim looped it, and she started improvising lines: “Take a break, take a breath, make it real.”“That’s fire,” Sim said.
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