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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Does Steve Aoki use Ghostwriters?

This post might 'offend' some people. But we were wondering if Steve Aoki uses ghostwriters for his remixes. We were listening to his N.A.S.A. remix of "Gifted". It's pretty good. We're not saying he couldn't write it. Anything is possible, but he's never really released production or remix work until recently, and then suddenly there's a plethora of 'remixes' with his name attached to it that are 'top notch'. If we didn't know any better, we would say the caliber is 'up there' and reminiscent of something Blake Miller would do. Blake Miller, of Moving Units, who also is his 'partner' in Weird Science is a very good producer, and probably one of the most underrated. Was Blake Miller hired as a ghostwriter?

Does it really matter if Aoki does or doesn't hire ghostwriters? Do we really care? No. If he does, we just think it would be 'weird'. Weird because he sort've portrays this DIY style reminiscent of 'punk music' and feel like ghostwriters are for people like Puff Diddy that are unable to write music for themselves, but have the monetary means to build their brand. However, with someone like Puff Diddy, no one really cares whether he uses ghostwriters or not, because we're content with enabling Diddy to 'act like a fool' in our celebrity/consumer relationship.

It's one thing to share top billing with someone of the caliber of DJ AM. We're sure Steve Aoki "paid his dues" to get there, but then if he is indeed using ghostwriters for his remixes, then it truly becomes a Puff Diddy scenario in a scene that used to be the complete opposite.