Bryan Adams' Everything I Do (I Do it For You) was originally passed to Kate Bush and then Annie Lennox. Doubt either of them would have had 16 weeks at no.1 with it though!
Belinda Carlisle has said that she was offered 'Falling Into You'. She really liked it but the record company didn't.
It went on to be a hit for Celine Dion.
Without reading this (and no I never did in 2011!) my mind would never have compared Carlisle's 'Love In The Key Of C' with Dion's 'Falling Into You'. Now that it has, it comes as no surprise that the two songs are almost identical.
An obvious one I suppose, but although Madonna had a hand in writing 'Each Time You Break My Heart' for Nick Kamen, she did record her own version. The key sounds a bit iffy on Madge's version (not that NK could ever have been judged a 'great singer' for his rendition), but nonetheless that was probably correctable and the overall production 'sound' of the song makes it easy to imagine as the sorely missing '10th track' that True Blue lacked.
May I ask, as I don't know much about how these things work, are the artists given just the lyrics to these songs or are they given the whole arrangement with music and backing vocals?
Back to topic: I read somewhere that It's all coming back to me now by Celine Dion was meant for Meatloaf
May I ask, as I don't know much about how these things work, are the artists given just the lyrics to these songs or are they given the whole arrangement with music and backing vocals?
Back to topic: I read somewhere that It's all coming back to me now by Celine Dion was meant for Meatloaf
Depends. With Rihanna, songwriters and producers submit instrumentals or full tracks for her to consider. Her label also holds "writing camps" where a certain number of writers and producers are flown out to work together to come up with songs for Rihanna to record.
Usually, her demos have all the instrumental and lyrics already completed, so all she has to do is show up and record it.
For example, this is the demo to "her" song Only Girl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJswMYHG-g I think artists like Britney and Beyoncé also have similar processes but perhaps with slightly more involvement in the writing process.
Not every pop artist is like that though. Katy has a hand in the writing process and does all her own background vocals, whereas Rihanna, Cheryl, Britney etc. would have sound-a-like backing vocalists to contribute harmonies and sometimes even sing the main vocal along with them to make their vocals sound better.
Depends. With Rihanna, songwriters and producers submit instrumentals or full tracks for her to consider. Her label also holds "writing camps" where a certain number of writers and producers are flown out to work together to come up with songs for Rihanna to record.
Usually, her demos have all the instrumental and lyrics already completed, so all she has to do is show up and record it.
For example, this is the demo to "her" song Only Girl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJswMYHG-g I think artists like Britney and Beyoncé also have similar processes but perhaps with slightly more involvement in the writing process.
Not every pop artist is like that though. Katy has a hand in the writing process and does all her own background vocals, whereas Rihanna, Cheryl, Britney etc. would have sound-a-like backing vocalists to contribute harmonies and sometimes even sing the main vocal along with them to make their vocals sound better.
Britney has actually got quite a few demos of songs floating around. Some are of songs that eventually made her albums and some are of songs that she never recorded or were given to other artists. I have quite a few Britney demos. Most of them are from Blackout and Femme Fatale but I have some unused ones as well.
Britney has actually got quite a few demos of songs floating around. Some are of songs that eventually made her albums and some are of songs that she never recorded or were given to other artists. I have quite a few Britney demos. Most of them are from Blackout and Femme Fatale but I have some unused ones as well.
Weirdly the demo for (Drop Dead) Beautiful was apparently intended for Chris Brown. Ester wrote the song from the perspective of a male, the final version was re-jigged for Britney.
Also there is a man (Benny Blanco I think?) singing in the background of the final version as well.
What's Love got to do with it by Tina Turner was written for Cliff Richard but his management team turned it down without sending it to Cliff,don't think he was too please about that
Bucks Fizz recorded What's Love Got To Do With It before Tina but it went unreleased and only resurfaced on a re-release of their second album Are You Ready?
Weirdly the demo for (Drop Dead) Beautiful was apparently intended for Chris Brown. Ester wrote the song from the perspective of a male, the final version was re-jigged for Britney.
Also there is a man (Benny Blanco I think?) singing in the background of the final version as well.
I read that somewhere before as well. I have the demo and it's sung by a man. I don't know who the guy singing it is. I just now Britney's not singing it Never noticed that. I must listen to it again.
Mentioned it before but the Sugababes 'About You Now' was intended for Kelly Clarkson's third album but she turned it down when she wanted to go with her 'new sound'
A cover of The Tide Is High was intended as a single by Billie. It's on her compilation 'best of'.
She has a best off
Mary J also turned down Umbrella
Also Michael Jackson's Bad was originally intended as a duet between him and Prince, but surprisingly, Prince hated Jacko so turned it down
Mary J also turned down Umbrella Also Michael Jackson's Bad was originally intended as a duet between him and Prince, but surprisingly, Prince hated Jacko so turned it down
I thought Prince turned it down as he objected to the first line of the song: "Your butt is mine.....". It was mentioned earlier in the thread:
I read that somewhere before as well. I have the demo and it's sung by a man. I don't know who the guy singing it is. I just now Britney's not singing it Never noticed that. I must listen to it again.
The demo is sung by Ester Dean, she's a woman, but she sounds like Bieber.
Depends. With Rihanna, songwriters and producers submit instrumentals or full tracks for her to consider. Her label also holds "writing camps" where a certain number of writers and producers are flown out to work together to come up with songs for Rihanna to record.
Usually, her demos have all the instrumental and lyrics already completed, so all she has to do is show up and record it . . .
So say for example if she recorded these songs and then decided she didn't like it and so it went to say... Adele, for example, would Adele's record label then present the song to her and she would sing it in the same beat, same temp, same instruments etc as Rihanna had done except her vocals are there instead of Rihanna's, or would the record label present the lyrics to her and then if she liked it she would record it in her own style? I'm pretty sure that Adele writes all her songs but I used her as an example because the two artists are so different.
So say for example if she recorded these songs and then decided she didn't like it and so it went to say... Adele, for example, would Adele's record label then present the song to her and she would sing it in the same beat, same temp, same instruments etc as Rihanna had done except her vocals are there instead of Rihanna's, or would the record label present the lyrics to her and then if she liked it she would record it in her own style? I'm pretty sure that Adele writes all her songs but I used her as an example because the two artists are so different.
Yes like when Ellie Goulding was offered Burn she altered some lyrics altered the style a little to fit her sound and voila .
So say for example if she recorded these songs and then decided she didn't like it and so it went to say... Adele, for example, would Adele's record label then present the song to her and she would sing it in the same beat, same temp, same instruments etc as Rihanna had done except her vocals are there instead of Rihanna's, or would the record label present the lyrics to her and then if she liked it she would record it in her own style? I'm pretty sure that Adele writes all her songs but I used her as an example because the two artists are so different.
Both are possible. It all depends on the artist and what they feel about the song to be honest. But some artists choose to keep the exact same arrangement and others prefer to change a few things, usually so that they can blag a writing credit.
Pretty much every single Rita Ora has ever released was intended for someone else including the DJ Fresh track that got her better introduced to the world which was originally written for Jessie J.
Bucks Fizz recorded What's Love Got To Do With It before Tina but it went unreleased and only resurfaced on a re-release of their second album Are You Ready?
I hate the song,didn't mind the Cliff recording of it he did many years later but for some reason I think I'd enjoy Bucks Fizz singing it
Both are possible. It all depends on the artist and what they feel about the song to be honest. But some artists choose to keep the exact same arrangement and others prefer to change a few things, usually so that they can blag a writing credit.
Build Me Up Buttercup by the Foundations was originally offered to a then unknown David Essex who apparently turned it down because he didn't like the song title
I can imagine his version would have been a bit twee though
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I couldn't imagine Kate Bush singing that.
Just can't imagine it.
Without reading this (and no I never did in 2011!) my mind would never have compared Carlisle's 'Love In The Key Of C' with Dion's 'Falling Into You'. Now that it has, it comes as no surprise that the two songs are almost identical.
An obvious one I suppose, but although Madonna had a hand in writing 'Each Time You Break My Heart' for Nick Kamen, she did record her own version. The key sounds a bit iffy on Madge's version (not that NK could ever have been judged a 'great singer' for his rendition), but nonetheless that was probably correctable and the overall production 'sound' of the song makes it easy to imagine as the sorely missing '10th track' that True Blue lacked.
God bless you and LeAnn always!!!
Holly (a day one fan of LeAnn)
And first recorded when she was 15. I REALLY hate the song but you cant help be impressed with vocals!
God bless you and her always!!!
Holly (a day one fan of LeAnn)
Back to topic: I read somewhere that It's all coming back to me now by Celine Dion was meant for Meatloaf
Depends. With Rihanna, songwriters and producers submit instrumentals or full tracks for her to consider. Her label also holds "writing camps" where a certain number of writers and producers are flown out to work together to come up with songs for Rihanna to record.
Usually, her demos have all the instrumental and lyrics already completed, so all she has to do is show up and record it.
For example, this is the demo to "her" song Only Girl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJswMYHG-g I think artists like Britney and Beyoncé also have similar processes but perhaps with slightly more involvement in the writing process.
Not every pop artist is like that though. Katy has a hand in the writing process and does all her own background vocals, whereas Rihanna, Cheryl, Britney etc. would have sound-a-like backing vocalists to contribute harmonies and sometimes even sing the main vocal along with them to make their vocals sound better.
Britney has actually got quite a few demos of songs floating around. Some are of songs that eventually made her albums and some are of songs that she never recorded or were given to other artists. I have quite a few Britney demos. Most of them are from Blackout and Femme Fatale but I have some unused ones as well.
Weirdly the demo for (Drop Dead) Beautiful was apparently intended for Chris Brown. Ester wrote the song from the perspective of a male, the final version was re-jigged for Britney.
Also there is a man (Benny Blanco I think?) singing in the background of the final version as well.
Bucks Fizz recorded What's Love Got To Do With It before Tina but it went unreleased and only resurfaced on a re-release of their second album Are You Ready?
I read that somewhere before as well. I have the demo and it's sung by a man. I don't know who the guy singing it is. I just now Britney's not singing it
She has a best off
Mary J also turned down Umbrella
Also Michael Jackson's Bad was originally intended as a duet between him and Prince, but surprisingly, Prince hated Jacko so turned it down
I thought Prince turned it down as he objected to the first line of the song: "Your butt is mine.....". It was mentioned earlier in the thread:
The demo is sung by Ester Dean, she's a woman, but she sounds like Bieber.
So say for example if she recorded these songs and then decided she didn't like it and so it went to say... Adele, for example, would Adele's record label then present the song to her and she would sing it in the same beat, same temp, same instruments etc as Rihanna had done except her vocals are there instead of Rihanna's, or would the record label present the lyrics to her and then if she liked it she would record it in her own style? I'm pretty sure that Adele writes all her songs but I used her as an example because the two artists are so different.
Yes like when Ellie Goulding was offered Burn she altered some lyrics altered the style a little to fit her sound and voila
Both are possible. It all depends on the artist and what they feel about the song to be honest. But some artists choose to keep the exact same arrangement and others prefer to change a few things, usually so that they can blag a writing credit.
I hate the song,didn't mind the Cliff recording of it he did many years later but for some reason I think I'd enjoy Bucks Fizz singing it
I'll have to look it up
Thank you both
I can imagine his version would have been a bit twee though