[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ir Paul McCartney thinks that it was much “easier” to create music in the past. Having being in the music business since 1957, Paul has seen a huge shift in technology and how it affects production on hit tracks, encouraging him to brand modern music as “luxurious”.
Speaking to BBC News’ Click he explained: “The process of making the music, I do [go] on sometimes to young bands, younger people I’m working with, and say it was kind of easier [before].
“Everyone who made records used this routine. 10.30, be ready to go. 1.30, we expect you to have finished two songs, mixed, taped, done. You go home at the end of the day and you would have accomplished four songs. And I look back at them now, and it’s ‘Michelle’, it’s ‘Nowhere Man’, it’s ‘Yesterday’. It’s songs that have lasted.
“I really advise kids now: ‘You have to write the song before you go in.’ Sounds obvious but people don’t do this so much these days. They go in and say, ‘That was a good bit. Get that on the ProTools’.
“It’s just a new way of working, which is much more luxurious, but I don’t think it’s productive.”
Recent collaborations have seen Paul work with the likes of Rihanna and Kanye West, and he admits he’s less bothered with the way in which music is delivered, but disagrees in streaming because of the small amount an artist sees through it.
“The actual technology of how you deliver music doesn’t matter to me because we’ve been through vinyl, tapes, cassettes, CDs, downloads, streaming.”
Asked why he has removed his own music from sites such as Spotify in the past, he replied: “I feel sorry for the young composer whose written what may be his only hit, and it’s huge and he doesn’t get paid for it. I don’t think that’s right.”
