Twitter user causes a stir with controversial tweet resulting in backlash from producers

Producing music is not always as beautiful as everyone thinks. There are many people who live behind the scenes to make things happen and are often not remembered, as is the case with many music producers. The people responsible for the whole of the work, from the conception, composition and recording of music, rarely have their names divulged and credits go only to the artist/interpreter of the song. It was with a tweet supporting such anonymity that Alina (@alinathequeenx) became a known (and hated) figure on Twitter.

Music Producers should not get the same credit as the artist.

— Vine Memories (@VineMemories_) December 23, 2018

In the electronic music scene, it is very common for music producers not to earn enough credits, even if they are many. This is true with tracks such as the classic ‘The Way We See The World‘ that has 5 producers: Afrojack, Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, Liv and Mim (NERVO). But, in pop, rock or any other genre, this practice is not at all common and social media user Alina supports that music producers do not receive such credits.

For Alina, only the artist who is an interpreter is able to make the song a success, since for the track to be a hit, it needs to have vocals. According to Alina, if only the beat could be a success, it would not be necessary for the music to have a vocalist and of course, this has irritated many producers around the world.

A beat can capture the listener's ear, but it's the artist who's gonna make it a hit. If a beat could be a hit, they would just release the beat with no vocals. The producer should always take a back seat to the artist as far as credit. If you're an artist, you will understand

— Vine Memories (@VineMemories_) December 23, 2018

The tweet, which was one of the most talked-about topics on the platform in recent days, has angered many people, including Rukes, Slushii, 3LAU, Mark & Kremont and many other DJs, producers and artists from the electronic music scene. Check out some of the responses below:

I didn’t know someone could be so completely clueless on how the music industry works, but also completely clueless how music producers even work. pic.twitter.com/vjdgeWmok1

— rukes (@rukes) December 25, 2018

The artist is just the marketable vessel through which a song is statistically more likely to succeed.

Deals are negotiated based on perceived value contribution, just as in any other business.

The contribution level of writers , singers, producers has high variance.

— 3LAU (@3LAU) December 25, 2018

https://twitter.com/SlushiiMusic/status/1077321226278891522

Hope you'll make the next despacito as a producer and not be credited

— Merk & Kremont﮷ (@MerkandKremont) December 25, 2018