Shelly Peiken - Bitch (Meredith Brooks)

A very special guest for the finale of season one of the Songstripper podcast as Tim and Phil welcome American songsmithstress Shelly Peiken.

Shelly has written with great success in all pop genres. Different decades, different artists, same result: hit songs for Brandy, Christina Aguelera, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, Celine Dion and Keith Urban.

On this episode Tim and Phil tease Shelly’s stellar mind about her number one smash of ’97, the anthemic ‘Bitch’, performed by Meredith Brooks.

We follow the song's journey from Shelly’s inspired opening lyric, ‘I hate the world today’, to Meredith’s worldwide hit recording - a self produced demo that morphed into a smash.

Shelly is also a performer, an advocate for songwriter’s rights, a blogger, and the author of a bestselling book about the dark arts of the songwriter-for-hire ‘Confessions of a Serial Songwriter’.

This episode was recorded remotely with Shelly in Los Angeles and Tim and Phil paying attention and asking questions in North London.

Please join us for more song gossip on season two of Songstripper... coming soon.

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