The Hollywood crisis MeToo missed: ‘Every female composer has been through it’
Even today, women say they are too often sexualized in composing and recording studios and that it’s difficult to be taken seriously when producers, conductors and other powerful figures greet them with a “hey, sexy” or “who’s your daddy?”. Many producers say they are committed to hiring more female composers, but that does not always work out in practice.
An elite studio composer like John Williams or Hans Zimmer can still command a sizable fee and a budget large enough to commission full orchestral recordings reminiscent of Hollywood’s golden age.
“Everyone’s fighting for scraps,” one industry veteran said. “As a composer you typically receive your fee in a single bundle, and it’s up to you to hire musicians, a mixer, an engineer, rent a studio, and so on. What remains goes in your pocket. And it’s never enough. That’s why you end up hiring kids fresh out of college, because you can pay them less and treat them worse. I believe that’s the root of a lot of these things.
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