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Re:The fake artists problem on streaming platforms by kelseyfrog on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @06:12PM (#31008890)
That's a huge number of artists. Take Britney Spears' Grammy winning Toxic for example. The song was written and produced by Bloodshy & Avant, with additional writing from Cathy Dennis and Henrik Jonback[1]. …Baby One More Time, another example of hers contains zero songs written by Spears. Is that the same kind of deception that an unknown artist makes when publishing an original song that makes it way onto a jazz playlist? It's hard to find the utility of such a distinction.

1. https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/britney-spears-tox...

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Re:The fake artists problem on streaming platforms by astura on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @10:43PM (#31010657)
I don't know how true this is but it's been widely reported that the lyric "hit me baby one more time" was due to the song's writer (who is Swedish) believing "hit" was American slang for "call."

It's plausible due to the idiom "hit me up" meaning "call me."

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Re:The fake artists problem on streaming platforms by mc32 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @12:46AM (#31011284)
Why couldn't anyone on Spears' team come in and smooth out that idiosyncrasy? If someone writes gibberish for lyrics, do singers just go ahead and sing gibberish?
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Re:The fake artists problem on streaming platforms by onionisafruit on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:01AM (#31015480)
I don’t know if that story is true, but if it is the lyric still works even if it doesn’t match the songwriter’s intent.
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Re:The fake artists problem on streaming platforms by mc32 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:14AM (#31015650)
There’s the other slang meaning as in, “I’d hit that”. Of course there is the darker physical hitting interpretation which advocates against domestic violence have a problem with.
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Re:The fake artists problem on streaming platforms by mbg721 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:30AM (#31015862)
Or it could be taken as a blackjack metaphor, for pushing one's luck just a little bit more.
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Re:The fake artists problem on streaming platforms by mc32 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:42AM (#31016035)
If she had been older and had marketed herself differently, sure.
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Re:The fake artists problem on streaming platforms by sjtindell on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:36PM (#31010281)
Benny Blanco produced (often also wrote or co-wrote) 29 number one songs for artists including Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, Lana Del Rey, Miguel, Halsey, and Camila Cabello.
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