Per Gessle Talks P-Ud! - Inspiration

As always, my main inspiration as a songwriter
Comes from the music I listened to when I grew up
Which is the music from the '60s and '70s, I love that
I love that era, I love the record sleeves, the smell of a new vinyl record
I love how it sounded on the radio
I love that little hiss from the cassette tape

I'm a melody guy, if a song doesn't have a strong melody
I'm not really that interested
I would love to be more interested in grooves or sub-bass, but I'm not
My idea of a good record production is
If the melodies shine through comfortably
I love really strong melody writers like Burt Bacharach
Paul McCartney, The Bee Gees, Elton John, Paul Simon

There are so many of them
The new generation of songwriters have a tough challenge to breakthrough
Because most stuff that's released on the streaming services today sounds truly amazing
The production, the sounds, the plugins
The tricks you can do in the computer are beyond belief
And sound really, really cool
But what's lacking most of the time is a really good song
But hey, that's what I think, and I'm the old one here