SM Entertainment and their Swedish songwriters

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

Someone on tumblr brought this Swedish documentary on Kpop from 2012 to my attention. From 4:30 (part 2) onwards, it gives a look into how Swedish songwriters create songs for SM Entertainment (a tiny portion of Red Velvet's ICC can be heard!).

SwedenKPOP 1 2 3

I find this kinda stuff very interesting and I love my Swedish pop writers.

Comments

[bulleusekat.livejournal.com]

Thanks OP :) I always wondered about this stuff, I knew SM worked with Danish songwriters too. brb watching it.

[dot-rose.livejournal.com]

Wow. Red Velvet's Ice cream cake at 8:03 :O

[hyungmoney.livejournal.com]

i love the demo omg i wonder if the full version has been released

[myrrhcat.livejournal.com]

i can't believe it was written so long ago! must have been sitting in the vault

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

ily op

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

My pleasure a 100%

[honeyfunnybunny.livejournal.com]

Most of my favorite sm songs have been when they worked with either danish or swedish producers! One that I know personally makes bank from his work with sm so everyone can get it tbh

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

Would this friend be willing to low key leak me some demo's...

[suxaholic.livejournal.com]

it feels weird to hear about kpop in Swedish. My friend has produced a couple of SM songs. He quit though because western labels pay more

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

As a asked the other person - would this friend be willing to low key leak me some demo's...

[demonology81.livejournal.com]

It nice to see the people behind the songs that I listen to everrryyday :)

[adenar.livejournal.com]

thanks for posting this op! it felt a lot more 'documentary' than the 'plastic surgery shock factor' that a lot of these are, i liked the showing videos + dates/names thing
also swedish revision + kpop hobby + music industry analysis? this is my nerdy heaven

[suxaholic.livejournal.com]

yeah it makes me proud Swedish tv is usally very sensible

[adenar.livejournal.com]

Yes! I'd love to be taken through the redoing + lyric changing +deciding who to give which track and how albums get put together/title tracks chosen.

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

I would pay some insane amounts for a documentary like that

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

I think many Wester documentaries on Kpop have more of a 'Kpop for dummies' approach, sticking with the superficial and giving out the main basics for people completely unfamiliar with the genre to understand things - but, that also can go over into a bit of 'Lmao look at all these slick boybands and girlgroups, everything is SO manifactured, good thing we left that in the 90s'. I personally really love that in Kpop and am equally interested in the behind the scenes workings, so this video was a nice treat!

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

The songwriting camp part was really interesting. I've always wondered why SM specifically sought out Scandinavian songwriters.

lmao @ the SM VP refusing to talk about plastic surgery

[thomaswilmoore.livejournal.com]

Sweden is where the best pop music is. ABBA, Roxette, Ace of Base, Cardigans, Avicii, Loreen...
They basically shaped every major american pop act from since the 90s too, with Max Martin behind Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys and later RedOne and Martin Kierszenbaum with Lady Gaga... Most major pop hits have a swedish producer behind it.
It's amazing to have scandinavian producers doing songs for asian artists!
I, myself, hope one day Alexander Bard starts doing K-Pop/J-Pop, he's my favorite producer ever (Jolin Tsai did a cover of one of his songs once).

I'm sorry for the long comment, I just love scandinavian music (BTW, where are the Swedish members? WHY did you send Måns Zelmerlöw to Eurovision??)

[suxaholic.livejournal.com]

are you for real? Bard is a rightwing misogynistic asshole no thanks

[thomaswilmoore.livejournal.com]

He's said some pretty nasty shit and I don't agree with that, but he does know how to do music.

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

At this point when I think about Max Martin I just go


I worship him

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Swedish, norwegian, danish songwriters - story of sm. Actually only half the story since the interesting part is they co write with inhouse sm conposers to create the sm sound

[cuizy.livejournal.com]

Oh I didn't know that..... I remember I watched a documentary where swedish songwriters wrote for jpop..... but actually the jpop and kpop sounds are very very different..... so are they given guidelines or something?? I wonder why it's specifically these swedish/scandinavian songwriters then.....

[veryimportantu.livejournal.com]

ty european song writers <3