Popjustice
  • Home
    • Briefing archive
  • Features
  • Playlists
  • Get Popjustice emails
  • About Popjustice
    • About
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Contact
    • General contact details
    • Submit music
  • Forum
Recent Posts
  • Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • The 2024 Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
  • The 2023 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
  • Fine, let's do a Substack then.
  • The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
Hello! In theory you should only be seeing this if you're using a mobile or tablet. How's the site looking? If anything's wonky click here and tell us so we can fix it. Thanks! x
Popjustice
  • Briefing
  • Features
  • Playlists
    • New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
    • Big Hit Energy
    • 21st Century Pop
    • 2018% Solid Pop Music
    • Full archive
  • About
    • About Popjustice
    • Contacting Popjustice
    • Send music
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Forum
  • The News

We have Max Martin's daughter to thank for the existence of 'Problem'

  • May 26, 2014
  • Brad O'Mance

ArianaMax Martin's daughter basically persuaded him to work with Ariana Grande and help create her quite popular single 'Problem'.

In an inter­est­ing look at the song's creation by Rolling Stone, your friend and ours Wendy Goldstein, who is of course Grande’s A&R rep at Republic, revealed that she spent two years trying to get Martin involved.

"He has a young daughter that’s a huge Ariana fan," Goldstein explained. "He said, ‘I’ve never seen my daughter excited about someone that I’ve worked with, and that’s really saying something.’"

He's also worked on a handful of other songs for the album, which is quite exciting really.

  • ariana grande
  • max martin
Previous Article
  • Videos

Example — 'One More Day (Stay With Me)'

  • May 26, 2014
  • Brad O'Mance
Have a read
Next Article
  • The News

Lana Del Rey has only gone and plonked a new song onto the internet

  • May 26, 2014
  • Brad O'Mance
Have a read
Further listening
Greatest hits
  • 50 questions with Mark Ronson…
  • Interview: What sort of man is Ryan Tedder?
  • Sandi Thom's Real Tooting
Further reading
  • 1
    Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • 2
    The 2024 Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
  • 3
    The 2023 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
  • 4
    Fine, let's do a Substack then.
  • 5
    The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
  • 6
    2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Laura Mvula wins
Est 2000. Still going.
Socials

 Spotify
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Soundcloud

'Quick links'

About Popjustice
Contact Popjustice
Sign up for the newsletter 
Submit music
Est 2000
Twenty Quid Music Prize 

Playlists

21st Century Pop 
New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit 
2018% Solid Pop Music 
The Sound Of Popjustice 
Playlist archive

© 2020 Popjustice Ltd. Scrolled to the bottom now you're here
  • Privacy, Ts & Cs, cookies etc
  • Corrections

Input your search keywords and press Enter.