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And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

Ep. 73: Tim Pagnotta

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

Unknown, Music Interviews, Songwriting, Music, Songwriters, Education, Interviews, Music Creation, Artists

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

He is an ASCAP, BMI and Billboard Music Award-winning, multi-platinum songwriter, producer, and musician. As the principal singer and songwriter for the band Sugarcult, he toured the world for more than a decade with multiple platinum-selling success. From there, his writing and production duties with Neon Trees spawned the hits “Animal," "Everybody Talks," and "Sleeping With A Friend”. He produced the Walk The Moon album ‘Talking Is Hard’- which included the chart-topping song "Shut Up and Dance”. And he has also worked with Weezer, Elle King, The Strumbellas and Coin. Most recently, Pagnotta produced and co-wrote two singles (“Blame It On My Youth” and “Happy Days”) from blink-182’s #1 Billboard Rock and Alternative album, Nine. Tim also co-wrote the new Weezer single, “End of the Game,” which is currently #8 on the Alternative Radio Chart. In total, his songs have sold in excess of 12 million copies worldwide and streamed over 1 billion times. In addition to producing and writing, he is also developing artists and writer / producers - and is also about to launch his publishing venture. And The Writer Is…Tim Pagnotta!


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So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Welcome to Season 5 of And the Writer is with your host Ross Golan.

0:38.8

Before I give my spiel, I want to acknowledge the Music army that listens to this podcast every week.

0:45.0

Since starting this, the And the Writer Is community has literally changed the

0:50.0

history of the music business by helping pass the Music Modernization Act, gotten songwriters

0:55.8

added to album of the year for the grammys, and still is advocating for positive changes

1:01.7

for our industry on a daily basis. So thank you and

1:05.5

Congrats. Now as you know I've written with hundreds of artists and writers over the

1:11.6

years and my favorite part of each session is the first

1:14.0

hour when we catch up about life the industry politics composition whatever.

1:19.4

So this is a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly, who the people are who write the songs.

1:27.0

I'm producing this with the Great Joe London, Big Deal Music Publishing, and Mega House Music Management. If you want to listen to the songs we

1:35.8

discuss in this podcast follow us on our socials find out about special live

1:40.0

events or buy that merch aka that hat I always wear, go to our website

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W.W. dot and the writer is.com.

1:52.3

This week's episode is sponsored by BMI. Full disclosure, Joe and I are both

1:56.9

BMI songwriters, so we didn't write this, but we believe it. BMI, we celebrate

2:01.9

your talent, value your music, and champion your rights.

2:05.2

To all our songwriters and composers, your passion is ours,

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BMI, music moves our world. This episode is brought to you by Abco Music,

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home to iconic music catalogs of the 20th century,

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