uhhh guys...

[roostah]

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reminds me of

[comedrivemewild]

Re: reminds me of

[rewritten_since]

[_pinkchocolate]

OKAY, IF THEY WERE GOING TO RELEASE A SINGLE, WHY THE HELL DIDN'T THEY CHOOSE ONE OF THE SONGS ADAM CONTRIBUTED TO? "KISS AND TELL" WOULD HAVE BEEN A KICK AWESOME SINGLE

[nyanone]

IA

[lover_ez_ethan]

This! Especially since they seem to be stressing the fact the "co-wrote" them. They could have at least released one of the ones Adam might, oh I don't know... LIKE. Even just a little bit??? *sigh*

[musik19]

yeah ikr, if they had released kiss & tell or crawl thru fire everyone would know adam wrote those and there is also video of him performing both of those plus both of those are kick awesome songs

[zorabet]

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK

[leviicorpus]

LOL

[zorabet]

...if even one of those is on there, Hecker isn't lying, per se, right?

BUT if he has creative copyright on any of the songs, can't he stop the release? There's no way he signed over those rights.

FUCK THIS WHOLE SITUATION.

[phaballa]

Well, that's the thing. The song writer doesn't own the recordings. Once the songs are recorded on the label's dime, the label can do whatever they want with those songs. They can hold them, shelve them, release them, whatever. The label owns the master recordings. The song writer will be paid (a very small amount of) royalties, but he has no control over what's done with the song after it's recorded.

The only time writers/producers/performers own their recordings is in cases like FutureSex/LoveSounds, where Justin paid for everything himself because he wanted complete creative control. He owns his master recordings. The label still acted as distributor, but Justin retained rights over his music. That's a really rare situation, though. Labels pay for A&R and distribution, so they are considered the owners of the master recordings.