This hot off the press gem was just brought to my attention by Iselin
I can’t resist imagining this conversation going on in my head:
Dr. Luke: You know that “Tik Tok” song I produced for that Kesha girl that sounded a lot like Kylie Minogue’s “Love at First Site”? Let’s write one of those types of songs.
Max Martin: Yes! Oh, and let’s make sure there is some sort of “oh oh oh” thing at the end of the choruses. The kids LOVE that sort of thing.
DL: About this “California Girls” song title. Isn’t that a Beach Boys song? We don’t want to confuse the world AGAIN with a catchy original song title [“I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry (2008) and “I Kissed a Girl” by Jill Sobule (1995)] so let’s change the spelling of “Girls” to something fun and goofy like “Gurls”. Let’s also claim the name change was in tribute to the band Big Star.
MM: Your’re a genius! So when I Google it or search for it in iTunes it’ll come up on top! But what about building some cred in the hip hop community? Our numbers are down.
DL: Oh oh oh oh! This will be a great time to pull out clips from that session we did last year with Snoop Dogg.
MM: You mean the one where we had him record random hip hop phrases and things like “California” and “West Coast” that we thought we would need to use later on if we needed to add additional hip hop cred to a new song?
DL: You got it Max. I think there’s a rap about California on there too. Oh, and we might as well also pretend the album is leaked so we hit the blog community. That’ll make them think they’re posts are HOT and FRESH.
MM: Done! Let’s not alienate those east coasters either. Make sure we tell everyone in the behind the scenes Rolling Stone shoot that the song’s inspiration came from Jay Z’s “Empire State of Mind“.
DL: Genius.
I’d like to add that the oh-ohs on “California Gurls” remind me of The Rasmus’ “In The Shadows”.
Also DJ Got US fallin’ in Love, Who Dat Girl, Evacuate the Dancefloor, California Gurls and We R Who We R… so no, the music industry doesn’t even try any more.
well i feel like im listening to the same frickin song whenever “California Gurls, Tik Tok, Raise Your Glass or We R who We R” comes on. And that guy from ONE REPUBLIC is cashing in on the same song over and over again. he wrote “Halo”, “Already Gone”, “Secrets” and that stop and stare song from his album which is just a watered down version of the three. but i guess if u got a hit u milk it!
and GOD BLESS Taylor Swift, shes also a repeat offender!
California gurls does sound similar to Tik Tok, as well as Raise Your Glass by Pink, and Your love is my drug by kesha. Also that guy from ONE REPUBLIC just keeps cashing in on the same song over and over again. He wrote Beyonce’s Halo, Kelly Clarksons Already Gone, One Republics Secrets, as well as that stop and stare song from his album which seems to be a watered down version of the three songs. lol i guess it makes the fading process easy for a dj. oh and GOD Bless Taylor Swift, shes also a repeat offender!
Ke$ha:
Tik Tok- Produced by Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco
Your Love is my drug- produced by Dr. Luke and Benny Blaco
Katy Perry:
California Gurls:Max Martin and Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco Again.
P!nk:
Raise Your Glass:P!nk, Shellback, and Max Martin Again.
That shows you the similarities between the songs. The same producers. That’s what I like to call Bubblegum pop.