THE HIDDEN TRACKS OF DR. LUKE.

The allegations of fixating on Kesha's weight have never gone away (though he's denied it), along with accusations of controlling behavior toward artists, and the overarching sense, as one successful songwriter puts it, that Gottwald was "a fucking dick to everybody." That approach was at least partly pioneered by Gottwald, as a songwriter who used to work for him points out: It's a business model based on "building teams of producers and songwriters, like forming Voltron", he says. (The case expanded to a separate count, ultimately upheld by a judge, that Kesha defamed Gottwald in a text to Lady Gaga that falsely claimed he raped Katy Perry.) IN JULY 2014, the songwriter, producer, and mogul Lukasz Gottwald, a.k.a. Dr. Luke, paced the halls of one of his favorite workplaces, Conway Studios in Hollywood, and mused about thriving under pressure. [Extracted from the article]