On April 21, [Dr. Luke] was named ASCAP’s Songwriter of the Year. He received 10 ASCAP Pop Music Awards that night, as a songwriter and publisher, a near-sweep that certified what many have known for a while now: Dr. Luke is an unstoppable force and the most statistically relevant pop producer in some time…He is the one to blame (or champion, if you’d prefer) for the musical success of Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, and that glitter-slathered lightning rod, Ke$ha. He can also be congratulated for creating hits—sickly sweet, irrefutably engrossing hits—for Avril Lavigne, Pink, and famous-abroad UK trio Sugababes. His discography is pop writ large. He is a dangerous 36-year-old man.

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