"Gottwald was brought onto Lavigne's last album, "The Best Damn Thing," under similar circumstances. "That record was done before Luke got in," Gottwald's manager Mark Beaven says. "Her manager said, 'Look, the record's done. But if he can come up with a first single, we'd love to do it.' He went in for a few days, the few days extended, and that extended. And they just had such a great time that all of a sudden there were eight new songs [of his] on her record, and eight songs [by earlier producers] that didn't make the record."
"I [Dr Luke] hear this a lot, that the artists are with other producers, and they don't have a single, and they want to come to me or my friends and ask us to fix it. And it's like, why didn't we get the call before?"
Possibly because Dr Luke's six-figure-per-track salary puts him out of range for some acts.
Even on records he's in charge of-like Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream," on which he was executive producer on, as well as getting hands-on with five tracks he takes an it's-not-over-till-it's-over stand.
"If 'Teenage Dream' didn't sell a record, I would still love it, and also know I did everything possible to ensure its success," Gottwald says. "And when I say I did everything possible, I'm not just talking about the music. I'm talking about making people understand that they're not done with the record, when they want to be done and don't want to work any more. Sometimes you have to do things in people's best interests and they don't even know it, and maybe they'll figure it out later and thank you, and maybe they won't. Most likely they won't."
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"I doubt we'll here anything until August. By that time we'll here a clip of the song she wants to release in correspondence with Forbidden Rose (but not the whole song, of course). And by that time she'll want to cut more songs from her album that deal with "Black Star." So she'll go into the studio to record more songs. But, because of her break-up with Brody Jenner, she won't like any of the new songs she produced. So she'll go back into the studio again, distracting us with her third fragrance and her second clothing line. By this time it's 2013 and the world has already ended." - Dr Luke
