Recognizing greatness

Katy Perry on Leona Lewis (& a reference to Max Martin — for those who may not know: it’s embarassing how huge a fan of Max Martin I am):

Like I said earlier, labels aren’t giving out the pennies like they used to BUT I do know that Simon Cowell not only gave her a RIDICK amount of cash to sign her but also bought her a BIG ASS HOUSE here in the states as a bonus. Not only that… Track two off her debut album, ”I Will Be” is a song I have known for a while… even before Leona… why, do you ask? Cause there’s a set of certain producers that wrote this song that brings me to tears. Dr. Luke and Max Martin.

And on record labels:

I was on Columbia with One Republic too when they decided to can BOTH of our records. Oops. Mistake one… and mistake two (knock on wood) , Columbia.

√ Apr 19th, 2008

Kurt Denke, you are AWESOME

Also have a look at the related discussion in MetaFilter. [via] √ Apr 18th, 2008