Celeb News: Jonatha Brooke: "Katy Perry is an underrated songwriter"

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Jonatha Brooke on writing songs with Katy Perry

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You recently co-wrote a song with Katy Perry. How did it that work? Did you learn anything from it?

Katy is actually a fan of mine. There is a picture floating around somewhere of her in the CD autograph line for my record “Steady Pull!” She’s mentioned me in a bunch of interviews, so finally my friend Brendan Okrent from ASCAP put a call in to her manager to say, “Hey, why don’t we get these two together. Might be a cool idea.”

It finally worked out last May. We spent three days in Greg Wells’ studio in LA, and had a blast. The three of us came up with two really great, very different kinds of songs. “Choose Your Battles” was the one she chose to put on her record. It’s dark and deep, a very exciting evolution for her I think. And it’s in 3/4 time which is where I LIVE!

We had such a good time. She is a badass. She knows exactly what she wants, and doesn’t waste time on baloney. And she sings her butt off. Really, it was a great collaboration. I brought in my little kalimba and started jamming on this weird rhythmic/melodic progression, and the ideas just started ping-ponging from there.

I wouldn’t be surprised if our other song came out at some point too. It’s a little pop treacle party animal! I’m not at liberty to say much more!

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Who do you consider an underrated songwriter?

Katy Perry! I think people write her off because she’s so successful and she’s located herself in this mega-pop market. But I think she’s going to surprise us going forward. She is super sharp and I think she’s already exploring a richer spectrum of ways to express herself.

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BudBud

i think she has her moments of good song writing but i dont see her as underrated

halcyonday

Katy, the real artist

J a y

That's true, a lot of people think she doesn't write her songs when she's actually involved with the majority of them.

heartbeats

Katy Perry the real artist.

bow @ jonatha helping Katy write the best song from PRISM "choose your battles"

and Katy promoting Jonatha when she was just starting to blow up

♚ PRiNCE HiGH ♚

KWEEN PERRY

Kat

Aqim

Queeeen.

Lord Blackout

Oh wow. Time to stop working with Bonnie and to delete her number, and start working with Jonatha more

mandym

That's sweet

Bliss

"I wouldn’t be surprised if our other song came out at some point too. It’s a little pop treacle party animal!"

Put this on the re-release, Katy!

Snoopy

No shade, but I'll believe it when I hear it. So far, I don't think there's anything particularly special about her songwriting. Her lyrics certainly aren't very deep.

That's fine, because it sells records... but I don't think she's underrated at all.

OmegaRidley

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Originally posted by Snoopy

No shade, but I'll believe it when I hear it. So far, I don't think there's anything particularly special about her songwriting. Her lyrics certainly aren't very deep.

That's fine, because it sells records... but I don't think she's underrated at all.

Why are LM always bashing her ? Do something with your life and stop talking ****.

SHICD

So true, though.

Achilles.

I didn't realize Jonatha wrote Choose Your Battles.

Snoopy

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Originally posted by OmegaRidley

Why are LM always bashing her ? Do something with your life and stop talking ****.

I'm sorry I'm not a Katy stan and don't think her songwriting skills are 'underrated'. The girl has #1 hit after #1 hit for goodness sake. How underrated can she be?

The amount of **** Gaga gets on this forum, I don't give a toss what other people think of her. I don't come after them like you insecure folk do.

Take a hike.

dfantasy

She's anything but underrated.

HazelHyphen

I think she doesn't write deep lyrics cause then it'll be hard for her to make her songs fun.

WFL

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Originally posted by heartbeats

Katy Perry the real artist.

bow @ jonatha helping Katy write the best song from PRISM "choose your battles"

and Katy promoting Jonatha when she was just starting to blow up

She looks like Stefani Germanotta in that pic

Lose My Breath

The lyrical aspect of her music is probably one of the weakest things about her songs