One More Time… Pre-Release Discussion

[Elisa]

7 minutes ago, Champ182 said:

Haha of course. Like I've said any time this comes up, there's a wide range of reasons to give someone songwriting credits nowadays. If it turns out that they let other people literally write songs for them again, I'll be bummed and critical of that. If they just had producers/engineers/music biz people around in the studio helping facilitate and brainstorm and gave out songwriting credits because that's what you do in the modern world, I don't care at all.

I saw that Aaron Rubin got some credits for example, he's Tom's in-house engineer I can't imagine he literally wrote parts for them to use. Maybe I'm wrong though who knows!

list of songwriters from reddit: 

Anthem Part Three – Aaron Rubin

Dance With Me – Nick Long, Aaron Rubin

Fell in Love – Nick Long, Ryan Tedder, Robert Smith

Terrified – Nick Long

One More Time – Andrew Goldstein, Aldae

More Than You Know – Aaron Rubin

Turn This Off – Brian Lee

When We Were Young – Brian Lee, Aaron Rubin

Edging – none

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got – Nick Long, Michael Pollack

Blink Wave – Aaron Rubin

Bad News – Nick Long

Hurt (Interlude) – None

Turpentine – Aaron Rubin

Fuck Face – Tim Armstrong

Other Side – None

Childhood – Brian Lee, Aaron Rubin

[Chewy030]

9 minutes ago, Champ182 said:

Haha of course. Like I've said any time this comes up, there's a wide range of reasons to give someone songwriting credits nowadays. If it turns out that they let other people literally write songs for them again, I'll be bummed and critical of that. If they just had producers/engineers/music biz people around in the studio helping facilitate and brainstorm and gave out songwriting credits because that's what you do in the modern world, I don't care at all.

I saw that Aaron Rubin got some credits for example, he's Tom's in-house engineer I can't imagine he literally wrote parts for them to use. Maybe I'm wrong though who knows!

Jerry Finn would of 100% gotten song writing credits in todays world. 

[Ghent]

If the album sucks I will be playing the "blame Aaron Rubin" card. Just letting you know in advance!

[Knapppers]

What level are you at now @Ghent Lvl 9 knowing your fav producer Aaron Rubin is involved in a lot of the songs 

[Drama-Free Jan]

3 minutes ago, Fountain of Cum said:

Is it true that when someone enters your home, they just see posters of rankings and tiers plastered over every wall?

They're in my Google docs.  And yes they've all seen them and get updates until they learn how to remove access from their gmail. 

[boxelder]

wow, that's shocking if they've collaborated again with robert smith, but i feel like it's most likely some sort of lyric reuse -- mark might drop a line from just like heaven or friday i'm in love. that type of stuff earns an immediate songwriting credit today, however small.

not surprising to see some of those collaborators back, including brian lee and nick long. shocked aaron rubin has so many songwriting credits, i thought he was more of an engineer (unless he wrote tom's lyrics for him while they recorded at home?)

[Knapppers]

Gonna say it now, if this album is amazing then maybe Blink needs songwriters cause I see Edging has none and it's not the best. 

[Sun God]

3 minutes ago, Elisa said:

list of songwriters from reddit: 

Anthem Part Three – Aaron Rubin

Dance With Me – Nick Long, Aaron Rubin

Fell in Love – Nick Long, Ryan Tedder, Robert Smith

Terrified – Nick Long

One More Time – Andrew Goldstein, Aldae

More Than You Know – Aaron Rubin

Turn This Off – Brian Lee

When We Were Young – Brian Lee, Aaron Rubin

Edging – none

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got – Nick Long, Michael Pollack

Blink Wave – Aaron Rubin

Bad News – Nick Long

Hurt (Interlude) – None

Turpentine – Aaron Rubin

Fuck Face – Tim Armstrong

Other Side – None

Childhood – Brian Lee, Aaron Rubin

I thought Nick Long was credited for Edging? He shows up on Spotify as a song writer 

[Drama-Free Jan]

3 minutes ago, Elisa said:

list of songwriters from reddit: 

Anthem Part Three – Aaron Rubin

Dance With Me – Nick Long, Aaron Rubin

Fell in Love – Nick Long, Ryan Tedder, Robert Smith

Terrified – Nick Long

One More Time – Andrew Goldstein, Aldae

More Than You Know – Aaron Rubin

Turn This Off – Brian Lee

When We Were Young – Brian Lee, Aaron Rubin

Edging – none

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got – Nick Long, Michael Pollack

Blink Wave – Aaron Rubin

Bad News – Nick Long

Hurt (Interlude) – None

Turpentine – Aaron Rubin

Fuck Face – Tim Armstrong

Other Side – None

Childhood – Brian Lee, Aaron Rubin

[Sun God]

I guess the boys just don’t know how to write their own songs anymore. I don’t know how many more “it is what it is” scenarios I can take anymore lol

[Elisa]

1 minute ago, DiTTy said:

I thought Nick Long was credited for Edging? He shows up on Spotify as a song writer 

yeah I remember when he was added as a songwriter on Spotify a few days after the song came out and the boards exploded haha

[JarJarBlinks]

4 minutes ago, boxelder said:

wow, that's shocking if they've collaborated again with robert smith, but i feel like it's most likely some sort of lyric reuse -- mark might drop a line from just like heaven or friday i'm in love. that type of stuff earns an immediate songwriting credit today, however small.

not surprising to see some of those collaborators back, including brian lee and nick long. shocked aaron rubin has so many songwriting credits, i thought he was more of an engineer (unless he wrote tom's lyrics for him while they recorded at home?)

didn't the two Rubin's write most of Lifeforms?

[thecurseofchris]

I already blocked off a 30-minute slot of "Focus Time" on my work calendar for Thursday morning. Even if ends up being a mid-tier song in the end, I'm just excited for something new.

[Sun God]

1 minute ago, JarJarBlinks said:

didn't the two Rubin's write most of Lifeforms?

Yup. 

[Ghent]

But I thought blink only used songwriters on California and Nine because Skiba sucks and they didn't have Tom to carry them?

[Champ182]

14 minutes ago, DiTTy said:

Ok, but how do we know which one it is? I don’t buy into this whole narrative that anyone who sits in a room with them is just getting handed free songwriting credits. Lol songwriting credits are basically the money makers now aside from touring/merchandise, and they’re not going to just hand those out like candy. If someone has a songwriting credit, you can bet they contributed a great amount to that song 

We won't know which one it is unless they specifically talk about it, like they did with the NonTom albums.

And it's been talked about quite a bit that artists/labels give out WAY more songwriting credits than before, precisely because it's one of the only money-makers in the music industry anymore. If somebody is in the room to help bounce ideas around, and they say "what if the melody goes up instead of down?" they could earn a songwriting credit.

In contrast, they openly talked about how Feldy and others brought songs/ideas to them to use. Maybe they're still doing that, but a songwriting credit isn't a guarantee of it.

[allsystemsgo]

14 minutes ago, Elisa said:

list of songwriters from reddit: 

Anthem Part Three – Aaron Rubin

Dance With Me – Nick Long, Aaron Rubin

Fell in Love – Nick Long, Ryan Tedder, Robert Smith

Terrified – Nick Long

One More Time – Andrew Goldstein, Aldae

More Than You Know – Aaron Rubin

Turn This Off – Brian Lee

When We Were Young – Brian Lee, Aaron Rubin

Edging – none

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got – Nick Long, Michael Pollack

Blink Wave – Aaron Rubin

Bad News – Nick Long

Hurt (Interlude) – None

Turpentine – Aaron Rubin

Fuck Face – Tim Armstrong

Other Side – None

Childhood – Brian Lee, Aaron Rubin

So the guys didn't write any songs or are these just the additional writers with blink included?

[OliverIsTheNewDylan]

15 minutes ago, Elisa said:

list of songwriters from reddit: 

Anthem Part Three – Aaron Rubin

Dance With Me – Nick Long, Aaron Rubin

Fell in Love – Nick Long, Ryan Tedder, Robert Smith

Terrified – Nick Long

One More Time – Andrew Goldstein, Aldae

More Than You Know – Aaron Rubin

Turn This Off – Brian Lee

When We Were Young – Brian Lee, Aaron Rubin

Edging – none

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got – Nick Long, Michael Pollack

Blink Wave – Aaron Rubin

Bad News – Nick Long

Hurt (Interlude) – None

Turpentine – Aaron Rubin

Fuck Face – Tim Armstrong

Other Side – None

Childhood – Brian Lee, Aaron Rubin

These are in addition to Mark and Tom, yeah? 

[JarJarBlinks]

Just now, BobbyCuomo said:

These are in addition to Mark and Tom, yeah? 

the post said all three are on every song in addition to the others

[Ghent]

Lol there's no way the band members aren't the primary contributors, that's why I've never given a shit about songwriters.

Why wouldn't you ask for advice and guidance and ideas?