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He is Prescription Songs

It's flat out not. The labels, Max, artists want him back in full force.

Yes

It's why Luke is on the ASCAP. Incentivises him to make the song as big as possible. He earns from each and every time the song is streamed, used, etc. https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/906015288

Look up publishing and look it up now. Like Doja, they may have gone back and corrected. The song was managed by Prescription Songs, they probably still have the social media up. There's more involved in the creation and release of a song than producing. You seem to have missed the point. He definitely wasn't credited but didn't produce anyway. He was behind the song and deal. Edit: https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/890966096 Dr Luke is part of MXM.

Luke is on this forum but he is not me. Buzzjack, Pulse and some sort of Lady Gaga fan site too.

I edited my comment. I meant licensor. There are interviews with his team about it.

I feel Lana knows exactly who she associates with and why. They likely are friends or friendly. My point is more where is the energy demonising Lana for her choices? This is in many ways even more whack than other artist's recent choices, because Lana will most likely be on stage stood alongside this person for the world to see. Enjoy. Normalise. It's very open and public. Cavalier.

Luke is the licensor of the entire Future Nostalgia era, including on behalf of all the other publishers. It made more sense he lead it because he owns majority owns the lead single and another pre-planned single (Levitating).

Not to derail, but yes, and he went uncredited on that track.

Bingo. Even the long release date. I believe it's lined up with the Olympics.

No but I am pointing out how selective people are on this forum of what they consider acceptable abuse and what they consider unacceptable. I personally believe because Saweetie is black, there are members on this forum that don't and won't care. That or they are so blinded by their fandom of, say, Lana, they don't mind this. That is what I am bringing attention to. It's not "stan" wars. It is domestic abuse.

She worked with his writers and A&R since New Rules, so it comes part and parcel, and they've not tried to set up an arrangement where he isn't involved because it pays for everything.

The above is a specific example of something Luke and his team did for Dua, coordinating sync with Spotify, and getting Spotify to pay for their own version of the music video. There are dozens of examples but the above is one I know first hand from back in 2019. Katy will definitely have things like the above, Luke and Prescription Songs are overseeing the album and unlike Dua, they're all the same overall label now.

Luke owns one of the most successful sync companies in the world, which is a company that sells the rights to music to movies, TV shows, sporting events, etc. Woman's World is lined up for the Olympics, of which Luke is involved in anyway. He owns the company that manages music that'll be at the event. The next FIFA too - he did the last one's English language music with RedOne. That's how Nicki Minaj ended up on the official single. So even if he's not (officially) a producer, he has just as much say because he controls where the music makes most of its money. When people like me say Dua Lipa works with Luke, we're meaning this stuff. He quite literally sends notes like "add the 808 here, it'll pop better in the H&M ad" and the like. This forum isn't particularly music literate, and some fanbases play dumb too.

Yes and no. It is the first single for sync reasons.

(That said, the song sounds incredible…)

Don't let actual video footage get in the way of The Agenda. And certainly don't look up a well documented history of abuse, criminal activity and homophobia.

It's not Taylor Swift unless she's greenscreened in. It's not Kesha either for the same reason. I made that other thread because she was asked to be involved in the album and was also asked to be involved in the video. Contrary to her fans, Luke and Kesha (with Pebe) do still have an extremely fraught but existing relationship with each other including regular stipends, and I'll leave it at that. Katy's album is a reset of sorts for lots of people, those in the limelight and those behind the scenes, who have collectively decided they want to move ahead together and not apart.

It'll age like fine wine.

I think he does a good job explaining things, and keeping things factual.

He's the A&R, publisher, promoter and licensor of the entire project and now Katy Perry in general, as well as a major executive at Republic Records that's being borrowed by Capitol. It wasn't clear if he was officially producing tracks on the album or going uncredited - he does both practices - but they're going to credit him it seems. So there is no way they can remove him from a project he created from the ground up with Katy. Everyone knows what they signed up for over a year ago. The truth is people like Katy, Max, even Bonnie, either don't believe the more serious allegations against Luke, or it isn't enough for them to stop working with him. People invited themselves to work on the album. It was originally entirely in-house at Prescription Songs but then Luke had complaints he wasn't doing proper writing sessions, so they did them. A lot more people came to them than are actually on the album. Luke is probably going to have some PR work done specifically for him after this album and the Olympics. He's worked on 7 Top 10 hits for Republic this year already including a #1, and there are still some big releases to come from other artists.

This forum is high traffic. Why is it weird somebody would be a member here?

It's simply not. Stop already. Whack the snippet with the audio of her singing the chorus a few months ago, and you can have AI churn out whatever.

No but I worked with one of the engineers/co-producers that has come back for this album, and have trickles of info from him.