Elton John: Most of the records in the charts – are not real songs

Elton John doesn't really like most of the pop songs nowadays - "there’s four or five writers on (a track). You look at most of the records in the charts – they’re not real songs. They’re bits and pieces", NME reports that Elton said to BBC Radio 6 Music. "It’s nice to hear someone write a proper song", he elaborated - "I like people who write songs. And there’s plenty of people that do but a lot of them don’t get played on the radio because they’re too sophisticated and we get songs made by a computer all the time and I’m not interested in that". The few that he does like are Father John Misty and singer/songwriter Conan Gray.