Rick Beato

You started to see artists like Aerosmith that had Diane Warren writing their biggest hit they ever had, their only number one, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, which came out in the early 90s, and rock bands of the early 2000s that would almost invariably have producer songwriters that would make their record.

And this really happened because the labels got involved, the A&R people.

They were making less money because they were selling less records, and they wanted to guarantee that they had huge hit songs on every record.

So they would actually hire songwriter producers or get multiple songwriters to contribute to the record.

These would be rock bands that would appear to be bands, but they'd actually be co-writers or producers writing and making the records themselves and not even including the band in there.