{"id":1901,"date":"2015-05-28T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2015-05-28T08:46:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:46:40","slug":"22-writers-for-1-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/22-writers-for-1-song\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Writers for 1 Song?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/images.toronto2015.org\/system\/asset_images\/548\/original\/panam_logo_en.png?1378831584\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"148\" \/>The official song of the 2015 Pan Am Games, &#8220;Together We Are One&#8221; sung by Serena Ryder, apparently has 22 writers to its credit.<\/p>\n<p>I can hear the jokes now: &#8220;Which word did you write?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, this is the music biz at its worst.\u00a0 Everybody wants a piece of the action so everyone has to have their name on the credits, even if you were just sitting in the room. It&#8217;s greedy and ridiculous. And the songwriter who did the most work or who came up with the idea (we&#8217;ll likely never know who that was), is pretty much ripped off because he\/she has to share whatever income the song generates, along with getting lost in credits crowded by 21 other people.<\/p>\n<p>The song itself is your standard pop arena anthem with nothing special to it.\u00a0 Other than the fact there are 22 writer credits.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly.<\/p>\n<p>IJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official song of the 2015 Pan Am Games, &#8220;Together We Are One&#8221; sung by Serena Ryder, apparently has 22 writers to its credit. I can hear the jokes now: &#8220;Which word did you write?&#8221; Seriously, this is the music biz at its worst.\u00a0 Everybody wants a piece of the action so everyone has to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prwoq-uF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}