music<\/a> and following storylines that make for good reality TV. There are some gems in here, but viewers hoping the show will offer a deep, detailed look into the songwriting process may come away frustrated.\u00a0The series is adept at capturing the beginnings of melodies and lyrical ideas the writers come up with as they kickstart a studio session, but viewers see only brief cuts from each team before we hear completed tracks during a listening party at the end of each session.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tTo be fair to Hitmakers, taking a songwriting session and making it entertaining to a wider audience isn\u2019t easy; there are plenty of arduous and repetitive tasks between those magical moments when the musicians nail down lyrics or perfect chord progressions. But time that could have been used to delve deeper into the music and its creators\u2019 connection to it is instead devoted to lower-stakes drama like mild slights the writers may have aimed at another, or confessionals about problems they\u2019re having in their love lives off screen.<\/p>\n
\n\tReality TV fans may not be satiated either. Hitmakers lacks much of the underlying conflict and tension the genre usually needs to thrive. At just six episodes that clock in under four hours total, there isn\u2019t much time to develop a closer emotional connection to the cast. And the dramatic threads that do get pulled throughout the run \u2014 whether it\u2019s Kirk, who is Andrews\u2019 romantic partner, condescendingly interrupting her during a dinner, or Andrews not gelling with Phillips during a studio session \u2014 just aren\u2019t all that interesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tPerhaps the closest look at an actual songwriter dispute comes toward the end of the season, when JHart and Johnson have a disagreement over the origins of a song concept JHart pulled from one of the Nashville sessions with Johnson. Johnson awkwardly calls JHart out during a listening party, pouring cold water on the moment. The two manage to hash it out not long after.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe songwriters themselves are charming and easy to root for. While the cast often calls songwriting a competition during the show, the writers are always collaborative and lift each other up when it\u2019s time to make a song. Hitmakers is at its best when we see just how talented these writers are \u2014 their ability to tailor songs for specific artists while adding their own personal flair to whatever genre is put before them. There are several moments of genuine songwriting heroism on display, too; the cast really hits their stride in episodes three and four in Nashville, where they create a bevy of potential hits for Shaboozey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tNova Wav, JHart and Ferras\u2019 \u201cTarantino\u201d and \u201cVVS Cowboy,\u201d in particular, sound like genuine hip-hop country placements. And \u201cEleven,\u201d which Johnson, JHart, Sevyn and Nova Wav\u2019s Chi Coney write for Lisa, is a convincing and catchy K-Pop smash.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe only true tension that we\u2019re reminded of throughout the show is the pressure to come away from a session with a hit that Legend, Usher, Lisa and Shaboozey will want to cut \u2014 and ironically, that\u2019s one area on which we don\u2019t get much resolution. Reid suggests that if Usher doesn\u2019t take \u201cRose Gold,\u201d he has an upcoming artist he may want to show the song to for consideration instead. JHart updates his fellow writers that Lisa is \u201csupposedly\u2026 allegedly\u2026 maybe\u2026 potentially going to cut \u2018Eleven.’\u201d Nova Wav says Lainey Wilson might cut a country happy birthday song they wrote in Nashville.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnd so we\u2019re left to experience the daunting reality that songwriters in these sessions have to wrestle with every day: Are these songs actually hits? Are they going anywhere? Will the time we invested here lead to a reward or just be left in the ether?<\/p>\n
\n\tHitmakers at least got that part right. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hollywoodreporter.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Songwriters are the under-appreciated, uber-talented engine of the pop industrial complex, churning out beloved hits for artists and doing so with little spotlight, limited fanfare, and too often these days, not very much money.\u00a0 But in Netflix\u2019s Hitmakers, the songwriter takes center stage, teasing the chance for a rare inside look at how your favorite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2155408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[21800,23191],"class_list":["post-2155407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-music","tag-netflix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Netflixs-Shallow-Pop-Songwriting-Reality-TV-Show.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155409,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155407\/revisions\/2155409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}