A Cut Above

Last year’s biggest-selling album was born in a modest project studio in a New York apartment. Scissor Sister’s Babydaddy tells us how.

Babydaddy is one of the founding members of Scissor Sisters – a band that has, in just one album, redefined the way in which hit records can be produced and marketed. With five Top 20 singles – including Laura, Take Your Mama and Comfortably Numb – as well as sales of over two million, you’d assume that their debut relied extensively on a big-name producer and expensive studios – but this is not case. Having constructed the majority of their multi-million-selling masterpiece in Babydaddy’s small New York apartment, this is a band that defies any form of convention beyond a simple love of pop music. And, with production and writing credits for Kylie’s I Believe in You, as well as Bono pronouncing them “the best pop band in the world”, there’s clearly a lot to be said for their way of working.

This feature first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 27
Filed under Interviews

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