Barry Manilow thinks “songwriting has modified”.
Barry Manilow has been engaged on a brand new album
The 81-year-old star launched his eponymous debut album again in 1973, however he admits that songwriting has modified dramatically in the course of the course of his profession.
Chatting with Billboard, he defined: “The songwriting has modified.
“Younger individuals don’t write the way in which I used to be educated to put in writing. There’s no verse which works into the refrain which works again to the verse which works to ending, and you modify keys. They don’t try this.
“They begin the track after which they only … it looks like a run-on sentence to me. I can’t discover the hook. I can’t discover the refrain. It simply retains on going, after which it ends.”
Manilow noticed that a number of his contemporaries have already retired from the music enterprise. Nevertheless, he has no intention of stepping again in the meanwhile.
The ‘Might It Be Magic’ hitmaker stated: “It’s like, ‘What? Am I the one one left?’
“It’s Billy Joel, and Elton (John) shouldn’t be nicely and Rod (Stewart) and Neil (Diamond). Diana Ross continues to be in nice form, I feel. There have to be solely a handful of individuals in my world which are nonetheless there.
“I’m nonetheless wholesome. I’m robust and I’ve nonetheless obtained my voice and my power. The night time I can’t hit the F pure on ‘Even Now,’ that’s the night time I throw within the towel. However I can nonetheless do it.”
Manilow has lately been engaged on a brand new album, which he hopes to launch later this yr. Nevertheless, he admits that the inventive course of has been removed from easy.
The music icon defined: “This’ll most likely be my final album.
“I’ve been engaged on it for a very long time … for thus lengthy that the type of music has modified.
“I had to return and redo (the songs) in order that they sounded a little bit extra up to date. I needed to take all of the strings out, all of the background vocals out ‘trigger they don’t try this anymore. They don’t use strings and background vocals and all that.
“Even I heard that it sounded dated, so we had to return and redo it.”
