Ghost writers

[lloydc]

A ghost writer is basically someone who writes/produces something for you, in this case I am refering to music.

Would you ever employ someone ( a well known someone) to produce a track/ remix for you, with guaranteed results, so that your profile as a DJ would increase?

It seems most big names have some sort of help in one way or another, and I'm wondering if you would do the same?

[Jaz]

I'd employ Bono to write me some bullshit "save the world" song then throw it in his face LOL

[Cupe]

He would be laughing while pocketing your millions of dollars and not caring

[eggssell]

hmmmm. i dont know if thats the exact definition. its not uncommon for someone to produce another artists tracks. in fact its quite common for people to be producers only and never release as an artist.

isnt a ghost writer someone who writes lyrics for songs for other people but are then uncredited. like ice cube wrote nearly all lyrics for nwa, lil wayne wrote all lyrics for the cash money billionnaires except juvie, jay z ghost writes for dre etc...

cant say ive ever heard of it from an edm point of view but then again i aint no producer...

[Jaz]

He would be laughing while pocketing your millions of dollars and not caring

hmm right and wrong, he would take the money but it would be on a plane to a poverty country faster then u can blink....

[lloydc]

hmmmm. i dont know if thats the exact definition. its not uncommon for someone to produce another artists tracks. in fact its quite common for people to be producers only and never release as an artist.

isnt a ghost writer someone who writes lyrics for songs for other people but are then uncredited. like ice cube wrote nearly all lyrics for nwa, lil wayne wrote all lyrics for the cash money billionnaires except juvie, jay z ghost writes for dre etc...

cant say ive ever heard of it from an edm point of view but then again i aint no producer...

I'm not sure if its the exact definition either, but you get what I mean, right?

It happens heaps in EDM, tiesto didn't make half of his big tracks, they were done by someone else.... I'm pretty sure a lot of the big names in EDM these days have someone else doing most of it for them.

[Cupe]

doubt it. most of his music is terrible yet he still makes millions from it

[lloydc]

doubt it. most of his music is terrible yet he still makes millions from it

google Geert Huinink

[eggssell]

In addition to working with Tiesto's Black Hole label, Geert is also credited with writing and producing the title track for Tiesto's Elements of Life album. On Tiesto's earlier Just Be release, Geert has been credited as co-composing the expansive lead track "Forever Today" as well as "A Tear in the Open". In 2001 a remix of Oceanlab's hit "Clear blue water" was done

it says he is credited, not really ghost writing. he is a co-producer of the track. like i said, tiesto is the artist who releases songs that are produced by him and geert??

yes google did come up with a television theme song which was credited as tiesto but was done by this dude, but hardly ghost writing.

EDIT: okay i guess the correct way would have been to say the track was by both of them. but i guess it depends on the contribution

[lloydc]

meh... tiesto contributed his name and the other guy contributed the talent.

Now, the question is, would you do the same thing in order to make yourself a bigger name DJ?

[Skank]

if ti got me in the position that after the gohost track people wait for my next tracks id do it, i think being noticed is one of the hardest things in coming up

[CBG]

I really enjoyed most of Kaleidoscope

[eggssell]

I really enjoyed most of Kaleidoscope

couldnt tell if you were being sarcastic or not, but anywho yeah i liked it. admittedly im not a big trancy guy so didnt actually know tiesto or his music. im sure id seen the jesus pose in 3d a couple of times but thats it.

only got into kaleidoscope thru my bro's who are tegan & sara fans and knew that i was a bloc party fan. but yeah i love the tegan & sara, kele & nelly furtado tracks. and also LA ride. everytime i hear that i actually picture riding low rider bicycles in LA

[callmeyo]

Pharrell's been a ghost writer for plenty

[eggssell]

really?

i thought it was the other way around. he used to get hacked on because everyone said malice & pusha t ghost wrote all his early rhymes. which all 3 deny.

[callmeyo]

not sure but i know he wrote for Justin Timber, Britney, pussycats, i'll think of more soon, under neptunes

[eggssell]

oh. thats production credits not ghost writing.

yeah neptunes provided beats, lyrics, rhymes, hooks for every man and their dog. there was a time when they would have 50% of the charts (led to their ultimate demise as does anything that becomes famous. damn tall poppy).

theres always that urban legend that nas paid $2M for a beat that he didnt want anyone else to have. wonder what happened to that.