Music Producers Don?t Get Enough Credit!
It’s Not Fair!
Let me start off by expressing a pet peeve of mine. I understand that this is my burden though, because it’s something that’s probably not going to change any time soon. I’m not going to name any specific artists, because I don’t want to single anyone out. This is a problem that is rampant amongst all genres of music, so it would be simply mean spirited for me to call out artists who don’t produce their own music. Whether it be rock, rap, country, or whatever, every style of music has an example of this problem.
Taking Credit for Other People’s Work
Of course, the vocal artist is part of the creative process. Just like it’s unfair for an artist to receive all of the credit, it’s would unfair for them to receive none of it as well. Don’t misunderstand me and say that the person on the cover has nothing to do with the magic of the music. I’m not saying that at all. It takes talent to take an instrumental and turn it into a catchy song. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. If the song wasn’t even written by the singer, then that’s a whole different story altogether, but I digress.
What the problem here is that the common person attributes almost all of the credit for the creation of a song to the person on the album cover, and that sucks. When you talk to a friend about a song that you like, you usually refer to it as “song title” by “artist’s name”, don’t you? How often do you bother to look in the liner notes and see who produced the song? Now maybe some of you do. I know I do. And I know a lot of people who do as well. But I know a lot more people that simply don’t care.
Beware of Label Nazis!
You may ask “What Does A Music Producer Do?”. It’s not