Confessions of a Serial Songwriter
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Confessions of a Serial Songwriter

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Confessions of a Serial Songwriter

About this book

A 2017 Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Nominee!

Confessions of a Serial Songwriter is an amusing and poignant memoir about songwriter Shelly Peiken's journey from young girl falling under the spell of magical songs to working professional songwriter writing hits of her own. It's about growing up, the creative process – the highs and the lows, the conflicts that arise between motherhood and career success, the divas and schemers, but also the talented and remarkable people she's found along the way. It's filled with stories and step-by-step advice about the songwriting process, especially collaboration. And it's about the challenge of staying relevant in a rapidly changing and youth-driven world.

As Shelly so eloquently states in Confessions of a Serial Songwriter: "If I had to come up with one X factor that I could cite as a characteristic most hit songs have in common (and this excludes hit songs that are put forth by an already well-oiled machine...that is, a recording artist who has so much notoriety and momentum that just about anything he or she releases, as long as it's 'pretty good ' will have a decent shot at succeeding), I would say it would be: A universal sentiment in a unique frame." Peiken has tapped the universal sentiment again and again; her songs have been recorded by such artists as Christina Aguilera, Natalie Cole, Selena Gomez, Celine Dion, the Pretenders, and others. In Confessions of a Serial Songwriter, she pulls the curtain back on the music business from the perspective of a behind-the-scenes hit creator and shares invaluable insight into the craft of songwriting.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction
  4. The Muse
  5. SongSex
  6. Snapshot: Crystal Blue Persuasion
  7. Movin’ on Up
  8. Carly Simon
  9. So Sue Me
  10. Underneath It All
  11. The Mother App
  12. Snapshot: I Saw the Light
  13. The Antidote
  14. A Visit from Jim
  15. The Opportunists
  16. Wilson (No) Phillips
  17. Daring to Suck
  18. That Song!
  19. A Perfect Storm
  20. Bitches & Babies
  21. Snapshot: Sara Smile
  22. Her Name Was Christina
  23. Miss America
  24. One on One
  25. Human & the Chrissies
  26. Christina—The Sequel
  27. Cars & Cats
  28. Free Falling
  29. Almost Doesn’t Count Almost Didn’t
  30. Snapshot: Maggie May
  31. So Sue Me (Twice)
  32. No. 1
  33. I Could Cry
  34. Come On Over, Shelly
  35. Breaking Away
  36. Napster
  37. Suzan, My Wife
  38. The Mother App Revisited
  39. Map to My Song
  40. Snapshot: Time Travel
  41. Cirque du Beatles
  42. 6 Degrees of John Lennon
  43. Snapshot: Across the Universe
  44. Eargasms
  45. Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
  46. What a Girl Wants (The Movie)
  47. Turn the Page
  48. Snapshot: Fast Car
  49. Where Have All the Albums Gone?
  50. So Sue Me X3
  51. Forever Young
  52. Snapshot: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
  53. Nashville
  54. Stumbling
  55. Snapshot: Creep
  56. Tom & Delilah
  57. Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
  58. Toplining
  59. 17 Minutes of Britney
  60. Come Together
  61. How Hard Can You Get Me
  62. Double Dipping
  63. Kum Ba Yah
  64. Gleeful
  65. Snapshot: Beautiful
  66. Worst Session Ever
  67. Farewell, My Muse
  68. The Competition
  69. Snapshot: Human
  70. He Ain’t Heavy
  71. Get Off My Cloud
  72. Fucking You
  73. The Way It Wasn’t
  74. (Not So) Gently Down the Stream
  75. What on Earth Is a Hit Song?
  76. Ain’t Gonna Happen
  77. Suddenly
  78. Grammy Fever
  79. The Future Always Comes
  80. Should I Stay or Should I Go
  81. Snapshot: Complicated
  82. Tick Tock
  83. The Pitch
  84. A Little Help from My Friends
  85. Accidentally on Purpose
  86. To Sell or Not to Sell
  87. So You Want to Be a Songwriter
  88. Little Earthquakes
  89. Landsliding
  90. The Gap
  91. I Hope You Dance
  92. Afterword
  93. Thank you…
  94. Glossary
  95. Photograph, Text, and Lyric Credits
  96. About the Author