Phillip doesn’t seem to have any desire to do the pop rock bit. I think we’ll have one very unhappy artist.

wordnerdarchie, other than that very general description of “jazz/acoustic rock” – without examples, I have no idea what Phillip wants his music to sound like either – I’ve never heard it – and I really have no idea what makes Phillip appealing to his fans – but the A&R people presumably ‘have’ heard whatever he submitted of his own music – I can’t imagine it was pop/rock – or “fun” and “catchy” – or that anything of his would co-exist well on an album with pop/rock tracks. It would be an album with a dual personality. Name it Bait and Switch?

Perhaps we have a clue here why James Durbin eventually signed with Windup, and not Interscope – but Phillip doesn’t have much choice.

And if these songs are to be submitted so soon, they aren’t being written for Phillip (or Jessica) – they are asking for already written generic songs – Couple days to demo up some CD’s and copy the lyrics, and mail them off – not much else.

Good luck, to all of them.

Yeah, that’s a good possibility, but they still need the potential singles to fit in with the rest of the album Phillip is recording. It’s generally not a good thing if the singles sound little like the rest of the album. 

I’m assuming the label people soliciting these submissions have heard at least some of the songs Phillip has written/co-written, so they have a decent idea what will mesh well. But what the ad is asking for really doesn’t seem like it would be something Phillip would write himself. And while “Home” has worked out for both him and the label, who knows if lightning can strike twice with him performing a song that really isn’t the style he wants to do.

girlygirltoo: At least this listing sounds like they’re looking for songs that could fit Skylar.

Kind of but kind of not. Skylar’s made it clear she doesn’t want to do country/pop, she wants to do down home country/rock a la Justin Moore. With her listing though it’s a publishing company that’s looking for songs to pitch not a label A&R person (the 2 other Idol listings cite a label A&R person as the one searching). I suspect it’s 19 (or somebody affiliated with 19 like Oglesby Writer Management or Creative Nation) that’s looking for Skylar because they’ve been behind her writing appointments too.

Carrie’s a good reference point for Skylar if you’re talking songs like Flat On The Floor, Cupid’s Got A Shotgun, and Before He Cheats. Skylar’s version of Kellie’s Didn’t You Know How Much I Loved You was one of her best received Idol performances so I guess checking their names isn’t such a bad idea.

The Jessica listing almost sounds like it’d be a better fit for Hollie but I know there’s no signs that Hollie’s being signed.

“FUN and CATCHY, with BIG sing-along CHORUSES.”

Yep. That sounds exactly like P2. lol

I would say Scotty’s album wasn’t a great departure from what most people expected from him. Maybe some holdouts wanted a purely traditional country album but that was never going to happen. Lee’s first single was a co-write at least, probably because TPTB were cheap that year and that was the least expensive option. Maybe sonically it was bland but at least he helped write it? Anyway, the cycle took a break for a year.

I’ve heard Scotty’s fans say on here how he preferred to be less pop country. But I’m just going by what I read here, perception is key I guess. Also I understand country is it’s own animal and probably not as vulnerable to stylistic label tinkering. With Lee, yes he had a hand in writing the songs but my theory has been where the label screwed with the songs was in production, the instrumentation and popification of the songs. Listen to Lee now or his pre Idol works he’s very stripped down and does folk acoustic well. He probably never wanted a full band either. Just because you write the songs doesn’t mean the end product is at all what you envisioned or wrote.

exactly! and with a horrible song, this kind of songs just make me miss britney spears… that bad is this song.