Justin Parker
Justin Parker | |
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| Origin | Boultham, Lincoln, England |
| Occupations | Record producer, songwriter |
| Years active | 2010–present |
Justin Parker is an English songwriter and record producer best known for his work with female singer-songwriters such as Lana Del Rey, Rihanna, Bat for Lashes, and Banks.
Career
[edit]Parker began writing music when he was 17, but his career breakthrough came when he started working with Lana Del Rey in February 2011. Together they wrote "Video Games", the song that would launch both of their careers and would lead Parker to win his first Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. Although label executives were unimpressed with the song, it became a viral hit after Del Rey posted the song online with an accompanying lo-fi video which led to Fearne Cotton playing the song on BBC Radio 1; "Video Games" also received critical acclaim and commercial success, charting at number 9 in the United Kingdom and number 91 in the United States.[1] Off the back of the success of "Video Games", Del Rey asked Parker to work in collaboration with her on her first major studio album. The pair wrote twelve songs together, five of which can be heard on Born to Die.[2] The creative relationship continued into 2012, and led to the birth of another iconic ballad, "Ride", which features on Del Rey's Paradise.
Also in 2012, Parker co-wrote the lead single "Laura" for Bat for Lashes' third album, The Haunted Man,[3] for which he won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. On the experience of writing with Parker, Natasha Kahn of Bat for Lashes said that "the actual process...only took two or three hours" and that in his creative care she was eager for him to take her away from her "more subversive ways of writing music and give me some structure and teach me something about traditional chord progression".[4] simplicity of his collaboration with Del Rey can also be heard on "Laura". Parker also wrote the song "I Know You Care" for Ellie Goulding's second album, Halcyon. He was reported in 2012 to be working with Lissie and Eliza Doolittle on future projects.[5]
Justin then went on to co write "Stay" with Mikky Ekko and recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her seventh studio album, Unapologetic (2012). It features guest vocals by Mikky Ekko, and was released as the second single from the album on 7 January 2013. The song reached the top five of twenty-four countries worldwide including number four in the UK and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Rihanna's twenty-fourth top ten on the latter chart, thus passing Whitney Houston's tally of 23 top ten songs.[112] Furthermore, it reached number one in Canada, Czech Republic and Denmark, while also topping the US Pop Songs chart. In an interview with MetroLyrics' Amanda Hutchison, Mikky Ekko said of Parker's understanding of songs that 'he really knows how to create a really interesting dynamic with chords that keeps you pleasantly surprised...Justin knows how to give people access to these really heartbreaking chords, and he understands how to push and pull really well with the chords. He knows how to put hurt in the chords'.[6]
Discography
[edit]| Year | Artist | Album | Song | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Lykke Li | The Afterparty | "Lucky Again" | Writer |
| "Sick Of Love" | Writer | |||
| "Euphoria" | Writer | |||
| Everyone Says Hi | Non-album single | "Just Like That" | Writer | |
| GIULIA BE | Non-album single | "girls just wanna" | Writer | |
| 2025 | Everyone Says Hi | Non-album single | "Communication" | Writer |
| Gretel | Squish | "Maybelline" | Writer | |
| NewDad | Altar | "Other Side" | Writer | |
| "Heavyweight" | Writer, Producer | |||
| "Pretty" | Writer | |||
| "Puzzle" | Writer | |||
| "Everything I Wanted" | Writer, Producer | |||
| "Mr Cold Embrace" | Writer | |||
| "Vertigo" | Writer | |||
| Luke Sital-Singh | Fool's Spring | "True Love" | Writer, Producer | |
| SIENNA SPIRO | SINK NOW, SWIM LATER | "ORIGAMI" | Writer | |
| Everyone Says Hi | Everyone Says Hi | "Lucky Stars" | Writer | |
| "I Wish I Was In New York City" | Writer | |||
| "I Wasn't Dreaming" | Writer | |||
| "Holding On To Let Go" | Writer | |||
| "Tried And Failed" | Writer | |||
| Dean Lewis | The Epilogue (Deluxe) | "With You" | Writer | |
| 2024 | Wallice | The Jester | "The Hardest Working Man Alive" | Writer |
| "Sickness" | Writer | |||
| David Kushner | The Dichotomy | "Universe" | Writer | |
| Sea Girls | Midnight Butterflies | "First On My List" | Writer | |
| NewDad | MADRA | "Nosebleed" | Writer | |
| 2023 | "Nightmares" | Writer | ||
| Isley | From The Valley | "Catch Fire" | Writer | |
| Georgia | Euphoric | "All Night | Writer | |
| "So What" | Writer | |||
| Grace Carter | A Little Lost, A Little Found | "Riot" | Writer | |
| Delacey | The Girl Has A Dream | "The End" | Writer, Producer | |
| Aidan | And It Was All For Love | "By Myself" | Writer, Producer | |
| 2022 | Man-Made Sunshine | Man-Made Sunshine | "Rosebud" | Writer, Producer |
| Joji | SMITHEREENS | "Before The Day Is Over" | Writer, Producer | |
| Jillian Jacqueline | Honestly | "Hurt Somebody Else" | Writer | |
| Suki Waterhouse | I Can't Let Go | "Blessed" | Writer | |
| George Cosby | Lonely Heartbeats | "Paris" | Writer, Producer | |
| Sea Girls | Homesick (Deluxe) | "DNA" | Writer | |
| Homesick | "Someone's Daughter Someone's Son" | Writer | ||
| James Arthur | It'll All Make Sense In The End (Deluxe) | "Nothing In The Way Of Us" | Writer, Producer | |
| Lucy Blue | Suburban Hollywood | "Quiz Show" | Writer | |
| Fleurie | Greetings from Supertropicali (Chapter 1) | "Supertropicali" | Writer | |
| Josef Salvat | Islands | "Islands" | Writer | |
| 2021 | "I'm Sorry" | Writer | ||
| "The Drum" | Writer | |||
| George Cosby | We Stand Alone | "Only Ever Cry On Planes" | Writer, Producer | |
| Day In Day Out | "Lost On You" | Writer, Producer | ||
| WRABEL | these words are all for you | "let love in" | Writer, Producer | |
| Sam Williams | Glasshouse Children | "Hopeless Romanticism" | Writer | |
| Kat Cunning | Non-album single | "Boys" | Writer | |
| Dua Lipa | Future Nostalgia (The Moonlight Edition) | "That Kind Of Woman" | Writer, Producer | |
| 2020 | Celeste | Not Your Muse (Deluxe) | "I'm Here" | Writer, Producer |
| Camelphat | Dark Matter | "Easier featuring LOWES" | Writer | |
| Patrick Droney | State of the Heart | "Where You Are" | Writer | |
| Kat Cunning | Non-album single | "Supernova (tigers blud)" | Writer | |
| Josef Salvat | modern anxiety | "human" | Writer, Producer | |
| James Vincent McMorrow | Non-album single | "Headlights" | Writer | |
| Livingston | Lighthouse | "Say The Word" | Writer | |
| Martin Garrix | Non-album single | "Drown featuring Clinton Kane" | Writer | |
| Joji | Nectar | "Run" | Writer, Producer | |
| 2019 | KAWALA | KAWALA | "Who'd You Rather" | Writer |
| Bishop Briggs | CHAMPION | "SOMEONE ELSE" | Writer | |
| Geowulf | My Resignation | "I See Red" | Writer | |
| "Lonely" | Writer | |||
| "Round and Round" | Writer, Producer | |||
| JC Stewart | Non-album single | "Have You Had Enough Wine?" | Writer | |
| Sasha Alex Sloan | Self Portrait | "Thoughts" | Writer | |
| babyidontlikeyou | Non-album single | "Wanna Go Back" | Writer | |
| MARINA | Love + Fear | "Too Afraid" | Writer | |
| Talos | Far Out Dust | "On and On" | Writer | |
| Drake | Care Package | "Days in The East" | Writer | |
| gnash | we | "be" | Writer | |
| 2018 | Mikky Ekko | FAME | "FAME" | Writer |
| CLOVES | One Big Nothing | "Bringing The House Down" | Writer | |
| "Wasted Time" | Writer | |||
| "Hit Me Hard" | Writer | |||
| "Kiss Me In The Dark" | Writer | |||
| "Up And Down" | Writer | |||
| "One Big Nothing" | Writer | |||
| XamVolo | All The Sweetness On The Surface | "Adored" | Writer | |
| Vance Joy | Nation of Two | "One Of These Days" | Writer | |
| Grace Carter | Why Her Not Me EP | "Silhouette" | Writer | |
| 2017 | Tire Le Coyote | Désherbage | "Jeu vidéo" | Writer |
| Albin Lee Meldau | Bloodshot | "Bloodshot" | Writer | |
| Lana Del Rey, Stevie Nicks | Lust For Life | "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems featuring Stevie Nicks" | Writer | |
| CLOVES | One Big Nothing | "California Numb" | Writer | |
| "Better Now" | Writer | |||
| Linkin Park | One More Light | "Invisible" | Writer | |
| Rhye | Blood | "Song For You" | Writer | |
| 2016 | JONES | New Skin | "Bring Me Down" | Writer |
| "Lonely Cry" | Writer | |||
| Billie Marten | Writing of Blues and Yellows | "Untitled" | Writer | |
| Petite Meller | Lil Empire | "America" | Writer | |
| BANNERS | Non-album single | "Half Light" | Writer | |
| Albin Lee Meldau | Lovers | "Let Me Go" | Writer, Producer | |
| The Temper Trap | Thick as Thieves | "Fall Together" | Writer | |
| Birdy | Beautiful Lies | "Deep End" | Writer | |
| Gryffin, Josef Salvat | Non-album single | "Heading Home" | Writer, Producer | |
| 2015 | CLOVES | XIII | "Frail Love" | Writer, Producer |
| "Don't You Wait" | Writer, Producer | |||
| "Everybody's Son" | Writer, Producer | |||
| Seal | 7 | "Do You Ever" | Writer | |
| Kwabs | Love + War | "Fight for Love" | Writer | |
| Mikky Ekko | Time | "Comatose" | Writer, Producer | |
| "Pressure Pills" | Writer | |||
| Samsaya | Bombay Calling | "Beginning at the End" | Writer | |
| 2014 | BANKS | Goddess | "You Should Know Where I'm Coming From" | Writer |
| Sia | 1000 Forms of Fear | "Straight for the Knife" | Writer | |
| Skrillex | Recess | "Stranger (with KillaGraham and Sam Dew)" | Writer | |
| Luke Sital-Singh | The Fire Inside | "Lilywhite" | Writer | |
| 2013 | Lissie | Back to Forever | "Cold Fish" | Writer |
| Icona Pop | THIS IS... ICONA POP | "Just Another Night" | Writer | |
| Keith Urban | Fuse | "Shame" | Writer | |
| Lana Del Rey | Paradise | "Burning Desire" | Writer | |
| Fallulah | Escapism | "13th Cigarette" | Writer, Producer | |
| 2012 | Rihanna, Mikky Ekko | Unapologetic | "Stay" (featuring Mikky Ekko) | Writer, Producer |
| Kristina Train | Dark Black | "Lose You Tonight" | Writer, Producer | |
| Sander van Doorn, Mayaeni | Non-album single | "Nothing Inside" | Writer | |
| Ellie Goulding | Halcyon | "I Know You Care" | Writer, Producer | |
| Bat For Lashes | The Haunted Man | "Laura" | Writer | |
| Lana Del Rey | Paradise | "Ride" | Writer | |
| Born To Die | "National Anthem" | Writer | ||
| "Radio" | Writer, Producer | |||
| "Carmen" | Writer, Producer | |||
| 2011 | "Born To Die" | Writer | ||
| "Video Games" | Writer | |||
| 2010 | Darren Hayes | He Will Have His Way | "Not Even Close" | Producer |
Awards
[edit]| Year | Institution | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | ||
| 2012 | Ivor Novello Awards | Best Contemporary Song ("Video Games")[5] |
| 2012 | ASCAP Awards | Foundation Stone Award[7] |
| Nominated | ||
| 2013 | Ivor Novello Awards | Best Song Musically and Lyrically ("Laura")[8] |
References
[edit]- ↑ "How Lincoln songwriter worked with Lana Del Rey to pen hit single Video Games". This is Lincolnshire. 28 April 2012. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ "Lana Del Rey songwriter Justin Parker: Everyone hated Video Games". Metro. 18 April 2012. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ↑ Andrews, Kernan (18 October 2012). "Planet of sound". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ↑ "That's The Spirit! Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes Interviewed". The Quietus. 7 October 2012. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- 1 2 "An introduction to songwriting with Justin Parker". The Guardian. 18 October 2012. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ↑ Hutchison, Amanda (28 March 2013). "Interview: Mikky Ekko, Songwriter Extraordinaire". metrolyrics.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ↑ "Taio Cruz Receives 2nd Consecutive Songwriter of the Year Award at 32nd Annual Ascap Awards in London". ASCAP. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ↑ "Shostakovich gets Ivor Novello songwriting award nomination for Plan B hit Ill Manors". The Independent. 17 April 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
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