Max Martin
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Sep 11, 2026
Mickey JoHOST
We'll get to that in just a moment.
Mickey JoHOST
Uh, and also not one that uses the songbook or discography of an entire artist or group, but instead brings together songs from a common songwriter, Max Martin, who happens to have penned hits for the likes of the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears and Katy Perry and Ariana Grande.
Mickey JoHOST
As such, it is a '90s/2000s and 2010s hybrid of fun pop hit dance songs, some of which are incorporated more subtly than others.
Mickey JoHOST
One of my favorite details in this show is the way in which the melody of Britney's I Wanna Go is subtly incorporated into the dance break of Blow.
Mickey JoHOST
Though the Shaftesbury Theatre has one of the most eye-catching marquis in the West End, for the majority of the time that & Juliet was at that theater, its presence seemed negatively impacted by the amount of construction work happening outside, preventing them from getting the same kind of enthusiastic footfall that they otherwise might have.
Mickey JoHOST
I've also always thought that when it comes to marketing in theater, the easiest shows to sell tickets for are the ones that you can explain in a single sentence, and & Juliet has always needed at least two.
Mickey JoHOST
Between the Max Martin songbook of it all and the it's Juliet, but it's if this hadn't happened and if instead she did this, it's just that little bit more confusing than a bunch of the other shows around it.
Mickey JoHOST
Also, not for nothing, the West End is a place where Mamma Mia is still running as an ongoing hit, and so trying to sell another party musical with throwback nostalgic songs can prove challenging.
Danielle MonaroPANELIST
You know it's one of my favorite shows in the world.
Danielle MonaroPANELIST
All the songs from Max Martin, Backstreet, NSYNC, Britney...
Danielle MonaroPANELIST
Katy Perry, Demi Lovato.
Danielle MonaroPANELIST
If you've never seen it, you gotta go see it.
BevGUEST
It doesn't like build to a drop or something.
BevGUEST
come on let Jack get his hands on this or could you imagine if Max Martin got his hands on this and this became like a bop that'd be insane but yeah I just sonically it's boring to me but the lyrics are of course beautiful fair
MorganHOST
okay so let's go into Gold Rush this is Antonov's only credit on this album and it's so poppy you can just like it's
BevGUEST
like so good my litmus test usually is am I moving I'm moving it can't be a neutral if I'm moving and I'm not moving to champagne problems I'm falling asleep I'm moving
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MorganHOST
It's the best part about the song, apparently.
MorganHOST
Yeah.
MorganHOST
Let's do that on a Max Martin song.
MorganHOST
That would be interesting.
Alex NicholsHOST
Yeah.
Alex NicholsHOST
She could probably hire Max Martin if she really wanted to.
Alex NicholsHOST
That's a good point.
Alex NicholsHOST
Yeah.
Alex NicholsHOST
Actually, honestly, you know what? Max Martin probably is too selective to work with her.
Alex NicholsHOST
Like, he can work with literally any pop
Charles AustinHOST
star.
Charles AustinHOST
And he doesn't want to produce a flop album.
Nathan HubbardHOST
Yeah
Nora PrinciottiHOST
... of that album, but then he did Cry Me a River with Timbaland, and like he was, he was, for someone in that position, also pretty early on these are the sounds, this is where pop is going, this is a more exciting thing to do than to continue on this like Max Martin-led, much more Eurocentric sound for pop.
Nora PrinciottiHOST
So like, uh, just to underscore your point, there are ways in which he came by this honestly, and he had had a really genuine interest in making music that sounded like the music that he ended up making.
Nathan HubbardHOST
Is Justin Timberlake appropriating culture on this album?
MadelineHOST
I'm into some of the things that I've created, but I think we could do something better, you know? I think we could come back and workshop it.
MadelineHOST
You know, Max Martin, Shellback, you know, let's regroup in six months.
MadelineHOST
And, you know, then she would've gotten engaged, and everything would've changed, and she said, "You know what? I just got this huge wave of inspiration because I just realized my whole life's gonna change, um, and everything's gonna be different, and I have something, um, that I've always wanted, so let's kind of focus in on that." I mean, imagine Wishlist, but it was about how-
ZachHOST
That was my first thought as you were speaking.
MadelineHOST
Does anybody wanna come up with something else? 'Cause I thought we had this great conception of this record, and I come in, and you guys are talking about yacht life under chopper blades and a fat ass and a baby face, and I, I like, I feel like we're just missing it a little bit.
MadelineHOST
And we're talking about eldest daughters to the slaughter, and we're talking [laughs] about, uh, everybody self-harming on the internet.
ZachHOST
Also, Max Martin is not a lyricist.
ZachHOST
He's not a storyteller in that way.
Eric FrankenbergGUEST
Yeah.
Eric FrankenbergGUEST
I, I feel like when The Slow Rush, their, their previous album came out, and, you know, he's talking about wanting to be the next Max Martin or whatever.
Andrew UnterbergerHOST
[laughs]
Eric FrankenbergGUEST
And it wasn't really happening in that way.
Robi ParolinGUEST
But I'm also a big fan of the Swedish kind of style of writing.
Robi ParolinGUEST
So Max Martin, anyone know who Max Martin is?
speaker_3UNKNOWN
No. No.
Robi ParolinGUEST
He's a writer that...
Robi ParolinGUEST
You'll be interested in this, Perla.
Robi ParolinGUEST
He's written songs for Britney Spears, Bon Jovi, Backstreet Boys, Taylor Swift, Pink.
Robi ParolinGUEST
In fact, any major artist that you can think of in the last 20 years, Max Martin has co-written those songs.
Robi ParolinGUEST
So I'm a fan of his writing style as well.
FranHOST
It's got, like, crunchy guitars, but toned down enough just to be poppy.
FranHOST
But yeah, I think it's co-written by Max Martin.
FranHOST
Obviously, he did Britney Spears, Bouncy Boys, Taylor Swift.
FranHOST
So it's bound to be a great pop punk song.
FranHOST
But yeah, there's something about it that doesn't really grab me.
FranHOST
How about yourself, Babs?
BabsHOST
um yeah i think so it was written by max martin and the evil dr luke of kesha fame evil doctor that's not his name but that's what i'm calling him but someone makes the point and when you see this you're like ah yes is that this sounds pretty much like you and your hand by pink and it's which is also written by the two of them um uh yeah i think i've heard this song before because when i went on youtube to watch the video it had the red bar indicating that i'd already seen it so i think yeah when i finally discovered them i went on a bit of a mission but it clearly didn't stick with me i really like the intro and the verses the chorus what i was going to say is like i think it then i think untouched is you know, that hit me immediately.
BabsHOST
But with some of the Veronica songs, it wasn't on initial listening that I liked them.
Claire LatrondoGUEST
Yeah.
Claire LatrondoGUEST
And she made that with, well, I think Shellback, Max Martin, who are basically like gods of pop.
Claire LatrondoGUEST
And it's an earworm.
Claire LatrondoGUEST
It literally got like so much press because it's grammatically wrong and it sounds awesome.
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