““This is a Labor of Love for Me,” Says Lauren Christy. The Hit Songwriter, Whose Credits Include Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated,” Bebe Rexha’s “Me, MySelf And I” and Enrique iglesias’ Collection Their Hits, My Way Featuring Her Own Interpretations of Her Greatest Hits, But She Could Just”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
WHEN CHRISTY WAS Coming Up, First As An Artist and Later As Part of Production Trio The Matrix, The Economics of the Craft Were Starkly Different from Those of Today. In the ’90s and early 2000s, you could make a comfortable living from winning Songs on a commercial release. Even if Said Song Wasn’t A Single, The Propoortional Pay from An Album Cut – with LPS or Cds Costing Upwards of $ 10 Each – Was Not Insignificant. “You Could Literally Buy A House,” Says Christy.
Today? I an Entirely Different Story.
“It’s Very, Very Dificult to Just Be Angwriter Today,” Says Christy, Who Teaches A Master Classes On the Songwriting and Offers Advice for Aspiration Writers on TikTok. “With Streaming, Somehow The Formula Got Flipped and the Songwriter is the Least Important Person. You Got Left Out of the Pie. And It’s SO Sad Because Recorder Engineers; Change. ”
For Her Part, Christy Adapted to An Evolving Business by Learning Music Production. Unlike Writers, Producers’ Fees and Royalty Points Are Agreed Upon Prior to A Song’s Release. Songwriters of Fethen Work on Sub and May Be the Last to Know If Their Contribution Was Used, by Wich Time The Negotia Window – WHICH DOESN’T CURRENTLY EXIST – IS CLOSED.
Christy Took A Year to Record Her Versions of Classics Like “Tonight i’m Loving You” (Enrique Iglesias) ”and“ Blow Your Mind (Mwah) ”(Dua Lipa) Friend Benj Heard to Produce. “Hollywood’s not America,” Released in 2008, Which Was A Contender for that Year’s American Idol Theme Song. “I Always Say The Album We Made, Aliens and RainbowsWas One of the Best Records I’ve Ever Been Involved. It Should’ve Been This Huge Smash, But The Universe Had Other Plans for HIM. ”
“I just wanted to sing the songs that i’d been part of of of course,” Christy Says of the Project. “Seeing as i Started Out As an Artist, Thatn Went Behind The Curtain and I’ve Collaborated on All These Songs That Have Been Successful, I Got To A Point in My Career Wheer. TRYING TO A POP STAR AT THIS AGE.
Christy Points to A “Spiritual Undertone” to Her Lyricism as The Through-Line to Her Work. “IT’S About Making People Feel Something,“ She Says. “I LIKE TO DO DEEP DARK STUFF, BUT I CAN ALSO WRITE FUN LITTLE POP DITTIES, TOO.” Her Process Is Adaptive to the Environment She Finds Herself In, Be It Working with Korn or Britney Spears. “I’M Channelling Something. I Can Just Be in the ROOM AND HAVE ABOLUTELY NOTHING – I EVEN SHOW UP A LOT OF TIMES WITH NO IDEAS
Asked if there is a genre she have’t yet conqued, Christy Points to One. “I HAVEN’T HAD Any SUCCCESS IN COUNTRY,“ She Says. “BUT I LOVE IT. I JUST WORKED WITH Jesse Murph Who Is Amazing. We Wrote Some Beautify, Deep Songs.”
To that end, Christy sees menorship for the next generation of writers and performers as a responsability. “My Thing is, Please Don’t Just Be Angwriter. There’s Not Really a Career for You Right Now. It’s Kind of Volunteer Work,” She Says. “Songwriters have to adapt and get good at Production. If You Want To Survive As A Songwriter Now, You Have To Produce YourSelf and Produce Other People. PASSION ABOUT IT.