What Makes This Song Great? "Into You" MAX MARTIN

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as an explanation of how Max Martin builds hit songs.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Rick Beato

Topic

pop music production

Format

explainer

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• Rick Beato is great. My favourite video of his is about the most accomplished songwriter most people have never heard of - Max Martin (producer and co-writer of this Ariana Grande song and a ton of other pop songs you've heard) [0] Also worth checking …

• I recently stumbled across some videos where a producer breaks down how some very good songs are produced. Here's one he does for a Max Martin track where you get screenshots of the track in Pro Tools: [VIDEO] > From there, it should be possible …

• yeah, but sometimes the effect is completely opposite for me it was these pop songs you hear on the radio i used to hate them universally, but once i've started listening more to the tone/melody rather that just the song i found myself hooked all …