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...year in which Harvard sent six wrestlers to the NCAAs, early exits plagued the Crimson. Senior captain Matt Picarsic, sophomore Max Odom and freshman Jesse Jantzen all bowed out in the tournament's opening round...
...also happened to have a good voice and caught the ear of Cheiron's Denniz PoP, who shifted Crichlow's focus to song-writing. The hits soon followed. With PoP and Max Martin, Crichlow penned the Backstreet Boys' We've Got It Goin' On, while he and Martin wrote Quit Playin' Games...
Thanks to his chart success with Britney Spears, Celine Dion, the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and other acts, Swedish songwriter Max Martin has been called a one-man hit factory. The reclusive Stockholm-based Martin, though, has managed to cling to relative anonymity even as the artists he works with and the hits he writes have been catapulted into the spotlight. He avoids attention, most press coverage and even awards ceremonies. Shortly after Martin closed his longtime studio, Cheiron, and opened a new one, TIME's Jeff Chu sat down with him to talk about his erstwhile rock-star dreams...
...feel I can contribute anything. If they already have a great thing going, I don't see the point of going and messing with it. A lot of times, calls are made by managers and record company people who look at the charts and say, "Oh, we have a Max Martin in the Top 5! Let's get him to do something!" without thinking, "Is it really right for the artist? Is this where we want to go?" People also think that I want to do another Britney Spears, so they send me Britney Spears material. They...
...name, the groups and even the studio, but they don't know my face (though some of the Backstreet Boys fanatics might). I was recognized one time in New York, outside a hotel when I was there with Backstreet Boys. One of the fans was like, "Oh, that's Max Martin!" And I was stunned. I was like, "What? How do you know that...