While searching for work as a musician and songwriter, I came across
this ad.
This ad is real. I did not make it up. Below is the entire ad
verbatim
Check it out and then read my follow up commentary:
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We need a songwriter to write some songs for one of our singers. They
need to be either hip hop, pop, or r&b songs. Your name will be
credited and shown to other singers. You'll also get $150 per song.
You'll just need to write the song, send the lyrics to me, and if we
decide to use your song we'll send you the money however you chose.
These songs are going to be for a teenage girl. Here are the songs we
need:
1). rich & awesome (kind of about being conceited)
2). can't stop loving you (about wanting someone who doesn't want you
back but you don't want to give up hope)
3). im just me (about not wanting to change for someone else)
4). rumors (about being tired of all the rumors going around)
5). the perfect lie (about you being a mistake)
6). forever a true friend (about having one friend who's always been
there)
7). party girl (about just wanting to have fun)
8). drama queen (about being a drama queen)
9). this is life (about all the troubles life brings but also about
the good times).
If you can help with any of these songs please email me! We do not
have any samples of the singer to send but if it helps she sounds
like Christina Aguilera.
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Now what struck me about this ad, besides the unbelievable and
outrageous fact that they are buying you out for $150 dollars a song,
is the formula they have presented.
Basically they want to produce a 9 track album and they already know
what each song needs to be about.
We always knew these acts where formulaic, but this ad spells out the
album formula for every Brittany/Hillary/Ashley pop princess in the
making.
Every record label owes the author of this ad a debt of gratitude for
their efforts to further the formula that is the product that we call
pop princess.
All you have to do is find a teenage girl that will do what you tell
her (Who cares if she can really sing or not, it hasn't hurt Ashley
any). Add some slinky clothes and follow this album recipe and
Walla!.... Instant pop princess.
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