I cannot remember what it was called originally, but it sounded nothing like 'Cappuccino' so it just made me crack up. But that's what they heard and it really did sound just like it, it's just awesome. He did a song called 'Cappuccino,' but that wasn't what the original title was. And some of the titles are so interesting, I love it. We send a song with English lyrics, and then someone translates it, or rewrites lyrical content. You know, it's actually the titles that surprise me a lot. KpopStarz: Did you have any songs that surprised you with their success?ĭrew Ryan Scott: There's a bunch. It always makes me laugh, because I Google the translation or ask the person who translated what they mean by it and they'll explain it to me. KpopStarz: Do you have any memorable stories from working in K-pop?ĭrew Ryan Scott: The funniest changes to my songs are the use of 'sexy,' 'kiss,' 'girl, 'boy,' and random words like 'fantastic.' They'll be in the demo, but they change the lyrics and then you'll just be like 'wait, what?' because I don't understand what they're saying and then they leave the English word in and I think maybe I know what they're saying. I never get to see it, I just get to see what happens in America. It's pretty awesome.Įach band is a bit different, and not being over there you don't see the craziness that happens behind the K-pop stuff. I met so many cause I go to the SMTOWN concerts, I go backstage and I get to meet everybody. I went to a great restaurant here in LA with Kim Hyun Joong, and I met SHINee.
I'm working on doing a trip, a writing a trip. Could you give a bit of detail about what it's like working with Korean artists?ĭrew Ryan Scott: I've actually never gone to Korea. KpopStarz: You worked with a lot of K-Pop artists. I have to look, it's somebody's single right now. He was going urban for a little bit, and he actually switched to more of a live rock sound for his album, so the urban music went to another artist but I forgot who it is. Like a few of the songs for Kim Hyun Joong, songs specifically for him, the sound didn't end up being like what he wanted. The funny thing is when you make a song for an artist, typically the song gets placed with a different artist. We make something like that and send it out. Say someone wants a song like Chris Brown's "Fine China," like kinda funky. They say they want a song that sounds like so and so, or this, so we make a song that has that vibe. What has that process been like?ĭrew Ryan Scott: Basically, we get write-ups. KpopStarz: You've created music with a lot of Korea's top idol groups. I did more and more different Korean and Japanese, and Thai and Chinese, pretty much every territory over there. And then I did a Taeyang's song called 'Sinner,' and then it kind of took off from there. It started back with SHINee and their song called 'Amigo.' That was one of the first songs I ever did over there. So many acts just started doing my songs and I thought 'wow this is so cool.' It was really cool, so I started watching videos like SS501. And then Stephen was like 'you have to listen to some of this stuff, they sell so many records.' I sent him some of the songs I had done and they ended up getting placed, so I sent him more stuff and more and more songs were getting made. And he kind of introduced me to the whole market and I started writing a lot of songs. We started working together and we just kind of got songs cut. He's Korean, and he makes Japanese and Korean pop music. KpopStarz: How did you begin working with K-pop acts?ĭrew Ryan Scott: I started writing with this producer Stephen Lee. KpopStarz spoke to Scott about his career behind the scenes of K-pop. With his hand in creating songs for many of K-pop's top acts, including Girls' Generation and TVXQ, the American pop star has become a staple in the Hallyu Wave. What do SHINee's "Dazzling Girl," Taeyang's "Sinner," EXO's "XOXO," and Kim Hyun Joong's "Kiss Kiss" have in common? His name is Drew Ryan Scott, the founding member of American boy band After Romeo, and he is one of the K-pop industry's biggest secrets.
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