Ep. 11: Mike Caren
And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan
And The Writer Is
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Songwriter. Record Producer. A&R Executive. This hitmaker has done it all. You'd be hard pressed to find a person in the business who isn't familiar with the work of this heavy hitting creative. With writing credits such as Beyonce's "Ring Off" and A&Ring Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" and CeeLo Green's "Fuck You", amongst countless others, this songwriter's work is seemingly always on the radio. CEO and Founder of Artist Publishing Group...And The Writer Is...Mike Caren!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys this is and the writer is, and I'm your host Ross Golan. |
| 0:15.4 | I've written with hundreds of writers and artists over the years and my favorite part of each |
| 0:19.5 | session is the first hour when we catch up about life and the industry, politics, composition, whatever. |
| 0:27.2 | If you ask me, songwriters are some of the most worldly and intelligent people I've ever |
| 0:31.4 | come across. |
| 0:32.6 | So this is a journey of learning why people write songs, |
| 0:35.5 | how people write songs, and most importantly, |
| 0:38.3 | who the people are who write the songs. |
| 0:41.7 | Now I'm co-producing this with my friend Joe London who is nominated for a |
| 0:45.2 | Grammy earlier this year for Best Country Song. He makes us sound like angels. |
| 0:50.3 | If you want to listen to the songs we discuss in this podcast, go to Spotify and look up our playlist |
| 0:56.2 | and the writer is or go to our website www and the writer is. |
| 1:01.9 | Also, I was a guest this week on our friends podcast |
| 1:05.0 | Switched on pop. They dissect songs from a compositional musicology |
| 1:09.9 | standpoint. This week we did Shape of You for Ed Sheerran. So that was a fun time. |
| 1:14.7 | Check that out on iTunes. And now to and the writer is. This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in |
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| 1:44.0 | Okay. See's apply, check the Uber app. Okay, this week's guest is Mike Karen. |
| 1:48.0 | Mike Karen is one of the most influential people in the music business. |
| 1:51.0 | There are exacts across the industry who were once Mike's |
| 1:54.5 | assistants and there are writers who are at the very top whose first session came |
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