Nicole Morier
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Nicole Morier is a Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

-based American Pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

, Electropop singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

. She began her career in 2002 as one half of the electro-rock duo Electrocute
Electrocute (band)
Electrocute is a Los Angeles-based electro rock band. Nicole Morier, from Albuquerque New Mexico, USA, founded the band with former member "Mia Dime" in Berlin, Germany in 2002...

 before becoming a songwriter for artists including Britney Spears
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

, Tom Jones
Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...

, Wynter Gordon
Wynter Gordon
Diana "Wynter" Gordon is an American pop/dance singer-songwriter. She began as a writer for other artists, later signing with Atlantic Records where she began working on an album while continuing to write songs for other acts and providing vocals on songs...

 and Sky Ferreira
Sky Ferreira
Sky Ferreira , is an American model, singer, songwriter, and actress. On March 22, 2011, Ferreira released her first digital extended play, As If!.-Early life:...

. Her best known compositions include "Heaven on Earth", and "How I Roll
Femme Fatale (Britney Spears album)
Femme Fatale is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears. The album was released on March 25, 2011 by Jive Records . Recorded between 2009 and 2011, the album featured Spears working mainly alongside longtime collaborators Max Martin and Dr. Luke, who served as the...

", recorded by Britney Spears. She also toured as lead guitarist and background singer with Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...

 from 2009-2010.

Songwriting career

Morier first considered pursuing a career as a songwriter for other artists in 2006 when talking with musician, songwriter Greg Kurstin
Greg Kurstin
Gregory Allen "Greg" Kurstin is an award-winning American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In 2009 Kurstin received a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year. That same year he won three Ivor Novello awards for his work with Lily Allen, including Songwriters of the Year for "The Fear"...

, while working on Electrocute's song Bikini Bottom for the The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (soundtrack) in Los Angeles. Greg had just began writing songs for pop artists and introduced her to his publisher.

Morier soon after signed with music publishers Kobalt. and landed her first cut when "Heaven on Earth", a song she'd co-written with Freescha
Freescha
Freescha is the musical collaboration of Nick Huntington and Michael McGroarty, based in the San Fernando Valley, California. Huntington and McGroarty, friends and partners since they met in high school...

, was recorded by Britney Spears for her album Blackout.

Songwriter discography

  • 2011: Wynter Gordon
    Wynter Gordon
    Diana "Wynter" Gordon is an American pop/dance singer-songwriter. She began as a writer for other artists, later signing with Atlantic Records where she began working on an album while continuing to write songs for other acts and providing vocals on songs...

    - Buy My Love
    Buy My Love
    "Buy My Love" is a song by American singer-songwriter Wynter Gordon and the third single to be released from her debut album, With The Music I Die . It was released in the US and Australia on August 22, 2011 while an EP of remixes was released on September 6, 2011 in the US...

     (single)
  • 2011: Selena Gomez
    Selena Gomez
    Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place...

    - When the Sun Goes Down
    When the Sun Goes Down (Selena Gomez & the Scene album)
    When the Sun Goes Down is the third studio album by American band Selena Gomez & the Scene, released on June 28, 2011, by Hollywood Records...

"Whiplash"
  • 2011: Hyper Crush
    Hyper Crush
    Hyper Crush is a band from Los Angeles, California. It consists of a rapper, Donny Fontaine, a vocalist, Holly Valentine, and a DJ/keytarist, Preston Moronie.-Early career :Hyper Crush began with Fontaine and Moronie...

    - "Kick Us Out" (single)
  • 2011: Sky Ferreira
    Sky Ferreira
    Sky Ferreira , is an American model, singer, songwriter, and actress. On March 22, 2011, Ferreira released her first digital extended play, As If!.-Early life:...

    - As If!
    As If!
    - Release history :...

     (EP)
"99 Tears"
  • 2011: Miranda Cosgrove
    Miranda Cosgrove
    Miranda Taylor Cosgrove is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career began at the age of three, where she participated in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock...

    - High Maintenance
    High Maintenance
    Upon its release, High Maintanence was met with mixed to positive reviews. James Christopher Monger of Allmusic wrote that the extended play had a more adult pop sound, and gave the album a rating of two and a half stars out of five...

     (EP)
"Sayonara"
  • 2011: Britney Spears
    Britney Spears
    Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

    - Femme Fatale
    Femme Fatale (Britney Spears album)
    Femme Fatale is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears. The album was released on March 25, 2011 by Jive Records . Recorded between 2009 and 2011, the album featured Spears working mainly alongside longtime collaborators Max Martin and Dr. Luke, who served as the...

"How I Roll"
"Trip To Your Heart"
  • 2011: Lena
    Lena Meyer-Landrut
    Lena Meyer-Landrut , known professionally as Lena, is a German singer-songwriter. She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo, Norway, and won the contest with the song "Satellite"...

     - Good News
    Good News (Lena album)
    - Charts :- Sales and certifications :-Release history:-External links:* on YouTube...

"Taken by a Stranger
Taken by a Stranger
"Taken by a Stranger" is a song by German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut that represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, earning 107 points and 10th place...

" (Germany's 2011 Eurovision entry)
  • 2010: Wynter Gordon
    Wynter Gordon
    Diana "Wynter" Gordon is an American pop/dance singer-songwriter. She began as a writer for other artists, later signing with Atlantic Records where she began working on an album while continuing to write songs for other acts and providing vocals on songs...

     - "Dirty Talk
    Dirty Talk (song)
    "Dirty Talk" is a song by American recording artist Wynter Gordon, taken from her debut studio album, With The Music I Die. It was released in the United States on February 17, 2010. The song was written by Gordon, Michael Caren, Gregory Ferguson, Nicole Morier and Norman White and produced by...

    "
  • 2010: Aeroplane -
"We Can't Fly"
"I Don't Feel"
"Without Lies"
  • 2010: Miranda Cosgrove
    Miranda Cosgrove
    Miranda Taylor Cosgrove is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career began at the age of three, where she participated in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock...

     - Sparks Fly
    Sparks Fly
    Sparks Fly is the debut studio album by American actress and pop singer-songwriter Miranda Cosgrove. The plans for the album were first announced in July 2008, and the album was released by Columbia Records on April 27, 2010 as a standard edition and a deluxe edition and Epic Records in India and...

"Charlie"
  • 2008: Britney Spears
    Britney Spears
    Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

     - Circus (Deluxe Edition) – Jive Records
    Jive Records
    Jive Records was a record label based in New York City, operating under RCA Music Group. Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African...

"Rock Me In”
  • 2008: Britney Spears
    Britney Spears
    Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

     - Circus
    Circus (Britney Spears album)
    Circus is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears. The album was first released on November 28, 2008 by Jive Records. Spears started work on the album in early 2008 with a range of producers including long-time producers Bloodshy & Avant and Danja...

"Mmm Papi”
  • 2008: Junkie XL
    Junkie XL
    Tom Holkenborg , better known as Junkie XL or JXL, is a Dutch musician. He uses the name JXL in cases where the term "Junkie" might cause offense. XL is for "Xpanding Limits"....

     - Booming Back at You
    Booming Back at You
    - Personnel :The following people contributed to Booming Back at You.*Tom Holkenborg – writing, production, performance, arrangement, mixing, mastering*Andre Ettema – writing, sound design*Steve Aoki – writing, production,...

"Mad Pursuit"
"New Toy"
"Not Enough"
  • 2008: Tom Jones
    Tom Jones (singer)
    Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...

     - 24 Hours
"Seen That Face"
"If He Should Ever Leave You"
"Take Me Back To The Party"
  • 2006: Britney Spears
    Britney Spears
    Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

     - Blackout
"Heaven on Earth"

Electrocute Discography

  • Full-length albums and EPs
    • Tribute to Your Taste, 2003
    • Troublesome Bubblegum, 2005
    • On The Beat, 2008
    • Double Diamond, 2009

  • Compilations
    • 2004 - "Bikini Bottom", The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (soundtrack)
      The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – Music from the Movie and More...
      The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Soundtrack is the soundtrack album from the 2004 animated film The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. It was released on November 9, 2004 on Warner Sunset Records and Sire Records.-Background:...

    • 2008 - "Mad Pursuit" 21 (2008 film) Soundtrack - Junkie XL featuring Electrocute
  • Singles
    • "Sugar Buzz", 2003
    • "Shag Ball", 2005
    • "Bad Legs", 2008
    • "On The Beat", 2008
    • "Mad Pursuit", 2008
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