Keane is an English band that is not ashamed to offer writing skills to the elite pop crew in the States. They have schlepped out songs to Gwen Stefani and The Pussycat Dolls, but there is a prerequisite to someone taking their work and paying them for it. The person buying the song has to have talent.
As you can imagine, when Britney came knocking at their door they bolted that sucker as quickly as they could. No sense in telling the crackling pop hag that she doesn’t have what it takes to win their music.
The best part of this is that Keane refused to write a song for Britney because retaining their dignity was more important than taking her money.
The Daily Mirror reports:
Keyboardist Tim Rice-Oxley explains to The Mirror, “We turned down Britney Spears. After the Gwen thing we were offered a lot of work.”
“But both Gwen and Nicole from Pussycat Dolls are phenomenally talented, and we wouldn’t want to start diluting that level of musical quality.”
[tags]Gwen Stefani, Nicole, Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears, Keane, British Rockers, Pop Music, Songwriting, Dignity[/tags]
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