Mike Posner is the writer behind some major pop music hits, but he has zero regrets about giving his songs away.
“A lot of people ask me, ‘Is it weird that some other artists have sung your biggest songs?’” he explained in a recent Instagram video. “Meaning that I helped write the song ‘Sugar’ from Maroon 5, I helped write the song ‘Boyfriend’ for Justin Bieber. And people ask, ‘Do you ever regret giving those songs up?’ And the answer is no.”
Posner, who put out hit songs “Cooler Than Me” and “Please Don’t Go” as an artist himself, said it is “so cool to hear those songs out in the public and know that I got to be a part of it.”
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“And, if you’re really serious about your craft as a songwriter, you write a lot of songs,” he continued. “On years where I’m not walking across America or climbing Everest, you know, I’ll write somewhere between 50 and 100 songs and, you know, if you’re going to put an album out, you’re really gonna have 10 to 20 on there, so it’s nice to get some other ones off your laptop and into the world.”
Posner concluded, “Being a part of both those was just a blessing and I don’t regret it.”
In a 2016 interview with Billboard, Posner admitted he initially struggled to transition from artist to behind-the-scenes songwriter, but after reading “The Art of Asking” by Amanda Palmer, “I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift.”
Posner has recently been on a faith journey, growing closer in his relationship to God; he was even baptized earlier this year.
“FOR ME; to be a Christian means to aspire with all your mind, body and soul to live as Christ did…It means to forgive every single person in my life including me and LOVE CHRIST BY LOVING PEOPLE,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “It’s not just a doctrine or theology, it’s a way of life rooted in faith. For me, if it isn’t causing me to LOVE MORE PEOPLE MORE FULLY, it isn’t God.”
Posner continued, “A few weeks ago, I was baptized. Christ has not made my life or my heart smaller, but much, much bigger. I’m working on developing more and more of a personal relationship with God.”
Posner might have let other artists sing some of his biggest hits, but for him, the joy is in creating a song millions of people will sing along to.
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