Talk:Max Martin

Correction

The section of the article dealing with the Backstreet Boys is incorrect in stating that "Millenium" was the band's second album, when in fact it was their third, the second being the U.S. release of their eponymous album, appropiately enough subtitled "Backstreet's Back". I'm going to correct this false information. Cheers! --Fandelasketchup (talk) 21:24, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Excellent long-form interview

Evidently, this is his first long interview. Even if that's not true, it's a great source for mining info on him for this bio. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:14, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

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the first section is completely messed up and idk how to fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:88:8200:1019:C19B:8E15:466C:C89 (talk) 19:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Solid HarmoniE

According to the Solid HarmoniE page, Martin wrote most of their material, yet this is not mentioned anywhere. Please add a section on them.82.6.101.144 (talk) 21:23, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Disambiguate "Writing"

There is a big ambiguity and equivocation regarding the word "writer" here. It's sometimes used to mean "lyricist", sometimes "music composer", sometimes "advising producer". Most songwriters who write for and collaborate with performers will craft music and lyrics first, then present it to the performer in a rough demo recording. Notable performers then often rework the song in collaboration with the original songwriter and get a co-writing credit.

Can someone go into a little more detail about what Martin specifically contributes to some of the hits listed? ThreeRocks (talk) 20:43, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

"Traditional" music production

To me, the statements made in the section "Artistry" make little sense if one is considering popular music before, say, 1975. "The traditional division of work in the record industry often has the artist or songwriter writing the songs and then hiring a producer to help shape the sound." If "traditional" meant music production of the last fifty or sixty years, but not before then, that would be fine, but that is certainly not what the word means. "But at Cheiron, it was the other way around; the producers wrote the songs, played the instruments, and engineered and mixed the recordings, and the artist was only brought in near the end of the process to do the vocals." That is really not so far from the way that music production worked with the "wrecking crew" or at Motown or at the Brill Building. "For example, on Britney Spears's second album Oops!... I Did It Again (2000), Cheiron had already written seven songs and had proceeded to record the layers of music before Britney even arrived at the studios in early November 1999. It took her only one week to do the vocals. Martin and his team worked more like a band that alternated singers." Again, not so far off from how production happened in the '50s and 60's and '70s at the Brill Building, at Motown, or with the aforementioned "wrecking crew". I think people like Berry Gordy and Phil Spector would be a little insulted by the notion that Max Martin revolutionized music production in the late 90s and early 2000s. While Gordy and Spector didn't play themselves as much on the hit records as Max Martin does, they weren't just hired by acts, at least until 1970 when the Beatles could be said to have "hired" Spector to produce Let It Be. I think it would make more sense to say that he revived a form of music production, and that what he does is as much "traditional" as what happened in the thirty years between 1965 and 1995, when acts primarily wrote their own songs and hired the producers to make their albums. ~2025-31313-89 (talk) 01:36, 5 November 2025 (UTC)