Shellback (record producer)

Shellback

Shellback in the studio 2015.
Background information
Birth name Karl Johan Schuster
Born (1985-02-01) 1 February 1985
Origin Karlshamn, Sweden
Genres Pop, electropop, dance-pop, pop rock, melodic death metal
Occupation(s) Songwriter, record producer, musician
Instruments Guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, vocals
Years active 2003–present
Associated acts Max Martin, Benny Blanco, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Tove Lo, Usher, Pink, Lily Allen, Adam Lambert, Maroon 5, Avril Lavigne, Blinded Colony, Refused, Harry Gregson-Williams
Website http://www.shellbackmusic.com

Karl Johan Schuster (Swedish: [ˈjuːˈan ˈɧʏstɛr]; born 1 February 1985), known professionally as Shellback, is a Swedish two-time Grammy Award winning songwriter, record producer and musician. Shellback was listed as the No. 1 producer of 2012 on Billboard magazine's year end chart, and he also topped the list of their "Top 10 Songwriters Airplay Chart" the same year. He regularly collaborates with songwriter Max Martin, and together they have produced, written and/or co-written songs for P!nk ("So What", "Raise Your Glass", "Fuckin' Perfect"), Taylor Swift ("We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "I Knew You Were Trouble", "22", "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Style", "Bad Blood", "Wildest Dreams"), Adam Lambert ("Whataya Want from Me", "If I Had You"), Britney Spears ("If U Seek Amy", "3", "I Wanna Go"), Usher ("DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love", "Scream"), Avril Lavigne ("What the Hell", "Wish You Were Here"), Ariana Grande ("Problem"), Adele ("Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"), and Maroon 5 ("One More Night"). Shellback has collaborated with fellow producer Benny Blanco for "Payphone" and "Moves like Jagger" by Maroon 5 and "She Doesn't Mind" by Sean Paul. He has also produced songs by himself, including "Want U Back" by Cher Lloyd and "Animals" by Maroon 5.

Career

Schuster was born and raised in Karlshamn, Sweden. He started out as a drummer in local indie rock bands in Karlshamn, as well as recording all instruments on the 2003 Meriah demo ...Turn Him Your Other Cheek (a strictly black metal recording), before joining the hardcore/metal scene as a vocalist for Blinded Colony in 2004, with whom he recorded 2005's Promo Demo and 2006's Bedtime Prayers, drawing comparisons to fellow Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames, before leaving in 2007. In 2005 he also performed as a guest musician on the Faith album Sorg.

At the age of 16, Schuster met Max Martin through their mutual friend Julius. By that time, according to an interview in the Swedish music magazine Stim-magasinet, Schuster's taste in music was "too cool for school" and he had no interest in pop music whatsoever. Julius kept sending Schuster's indie rock/death metal demos to Martin, who became curious about what it would sound like if Schuster would make pop music. So in 2006 Martin invited Schuster to his studio in Stockholm to record a demo with him, and since 2007 Schuster has been signed to Martin's production company Maratone.[1]

Among the first songs Schuster co-wrote with Martin are Pink's 2008 single "So What" and Britney Spears' 2008 single "If U Seek Amy".[2] In 2012 Schuster won the STIM Platinum guitar prize. [3] In 2014, Schuster produced "Problem" alongside Max Martin and Ilya.[4] In 2015, Shellback collaborated with Swedish hardcore punk band Refused, as he is a both a fan of the band's music and friends with the band's drummer David Sandstrom. Sandstrom sent him the versions of the songs "Elektra" and "366" that Refused had recorded with producer Nick Launay, and Shellback replied with his own arrangements of the two songs. Refused frontman Dennis Lyxzen explained in June 2015 that Shellback's versions were "far more Refused than our versions" and "were better" than the Launay-produced versions. The two songs appear on Refused's comeback album Freedom—"Elektra" was released as a single on April 27, 2015—which was released on the label Epitaph Records on June 26, 2015.[5]

Discography

With Meriah
With Blinded Colony
As a guest musician

Production discography

Title Year Album Songwriter Producer
"If U Seek Amy" 2008 Britney SpearsCircus Yes
"I'm Gone I'm Going" Lesley RoyUnbeautiful Yes
"Boring" PinkFunhouse Yes
"It's All Your Fault" Yes
"So What" Yes
"Oxygen" 2009 Living ThingsHabeas Corpus Yes Yes
"Bigger" Backstreet BoysThis Is Us Yes Yes
"3" Britney SpearsThe Singles Collection Yes Yes
"Quitter" Carrie UnderwoodPlay On Yes Yes
"Friday I'll Be Over U" Allison IrahetaJust Like You Yes Yes
"Just Like You" Yes Yes
"Outta My Head" Leona LewisEcho Yes Yes
"Naked" Yes
"Whataya Want from Me" Adam LambertFor Your Entertainment Yes Yes
"If I Had You" Yes Yes
"Kiss n Tell" 2010 KeshaAnimal Yes
"Hungover" Yes
"Party at a Rich Dude's House" Yes Yes
"Dinosaur" Yes Yes
"DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" UsherVersus Yes Yes
"Raise Your Glass" Pink – Greatest Hits... So Far!!! Yes Yes
"Fuckin' Perfect" Yes Yes
"Time Machine" RobynBody Talk Yes Yes
"Can't Find Entrance" 2011 Those Dancing DaysDaydreams & Nightmares Yes Yes
"Loser Like Me" Glee castGlee: The Music, Volume 5 Yes Yes
"Dancing Crazy" Miranda CosgroveHigh Maintenance Yes Yes
"I'll Survive You" BC Jean – Single Yes Yes
"Back 2 Life" E-Type – Single Yes Yes
"What the Hell" Avril LavigneGoodbye Lullaby Yes Yes
"Wish You Were Here" Yes Yes
"Smile" Yes Yes
"I Love You" Yes Yes
"I Wanna Go" Britney SpearsFemme Fatale Yes Yes
"Criminal" Yes Yes
"Up n' Down" Yes Yes
"Light Up the World" Glee cast – Glee: The Music, Volume 6 Yes Yes
"Moves like Jagger" Maroon 5Hands All Over Yes Yes
"Beggin' on Your Knees" Victorious cast – Victorious Yes Yes
"No More Secrets" Carolina LiarWild Blessed Freedom Yes Yes
"Me and You" Yes Yes
"Beautiful People" Yes
"King of Broken Hearts" Yes
"Salvation" Yes Yes
"All That Comes Out of My Mouth" Yes Yes
"Want U Back" Cher LloydSticks + Stones Yes Yes
"With Ur Love" Yes Yes
"Beautiful People" Yes
"She Doesn't Mind" Sean PaulTomahawk Technique Yes Yes
"Payphone" 2012 Maroon 5Overexposed Yes Yes
"One More Night" Yes Yes
"Doin' Dirt" Yes Yes
"Scream" UsherLooking for Myself Yes Yes
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" Taylor SwiftRed Yes Yes
"I Knew You Were Trouble" Yes Yes
"22" Yes Yes
"Slut Like You" P!nkThe Truth About Love Yes Yes
"Your Body" Christina AguileraLotus Yes Yes
"Let There Be Love" Yes Yes
"Kiss You" One DirectionTake Me Home Yes
"Heart Attack" Yes Yes
"Nobody Compares" Yes Yes
"All That Matters (The Beautiful Life)" KeshaWarrior Yes Yes
"Release You" 2013 Megan & LizLook What You Started Yes Yes
"Easier To Lie" Cassadee PopeFrame by Frame Yes Yes
"On a Roll" Icona PopThis Is... Icona Pop Yes Yes
"That High" PitbullMeltdown Yes
"Air Balloon" 2014 Lily AllenSheezus Yes Yes
"I Wish" Cher LloydSorry I'm Late Yes Yes
"Just Be Mine" Yes Yes
"Dirty Love" Yes Yes
"Blind Your Love" Yes Yes
"Killing It" Yes Yes
"I'm in Love" Ola Svensson – Carelessly Yours Yes
"Tonight I'm Yours" Yes
"Jackie Kennedy" Yes
"Problem" (feat. Iggy Azalea) Ariana Grande - My Everything Yes
"Animals" Maroon 5V Yes Yes
"In Your Pocket" Yes Yes
"Feelings" Yes Yes
"Shoot Love" Yes Yes
"Blank Space" Taylor Swift - 1989 Yes Yes
"Style" Yes Yes
"All You Had to Do Was Stay" Yes
"Shake It Off" Yes Yes
"Bad Blood" Yes Yes
"Wildest Dreams" Yes Yes
"How You Get the Girl" Yes Yes
"Wonderland" Yes Yes
"New Romantics" Yes Yes
"Talking Body" Tove Lo - Queen of the Clouds Yes
"Bad Blood" (feat. Kendrick Lamar) 2015 Taylor Swift1989 Yes Yes
"Elektra" Refused - Freedom Yes Yes
"366" Yes Yes
"This Summer's Gonna Hurt Like A Motherfucker" Maroon 5 - V (re-release) Yes Yes
"The Original High" Adam Lambert - The Original High Yes Yes
"Rumors" (feat. Tove Lo) Yes Yes
"Evil In The Night" Yes Yes
"Run Away with Me" Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion Yes Yes
"Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" Adele - 25 Yes Yes
"Rest Your Love" The Vamps - Wake Up Yes
"Just Like Fire" 2016 Pink Alice Through the Looking Glass Yes Yes
"Squeeze" Fifth Harmony7/27 Yes Yes
"Can't Stop the Feeling" Justin Timberlake - Trolls Yes

Billboard Hot 100

The following singles peaked inside the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100.

Number-one singles
Top 10 Hits

References

  1. "Maratone". Maratone official website. maratone.se. Archived from the original on 2 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
  2. Eigert, Av Ann-Marie (6 November 2008). "Pink hyllade svenske Johan". Expressen (in Swedish). AB Kvällstidningen Expressen. Archived from the original on 2 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
  3. "How Ariana Grande and Max Martin Made 'Problem' the Song of the Summer". Rolling Stone. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  4. Lamington23 (24 June 2014). "Refused on lying, selling out and Taylor Swift". FasterLouder. FasterLouder Pty Ltd. Retrieved 28 June 2015.

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