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Post by electriceyes on Feb 20, 2024 18:15:59 GMT
Songwriter Tiffany Red is calling out artists including Beyonce and Usher for stealing writing and publishing credits
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Post by ghost on Feb 20, 2024 18:22:47 GMT
Song-writing credits are just a business deal these days. You can have 100% credit for writing a song, but until a famous artist records it, you get nothing. So to the extent sheβs complaining about the money, I have little sympathy.
Most modern popstars aren't really artists, but performers. If you locked Beyonce or Rhianna or Usher or Bieber up in a room alone with a pen, paper, and guitar they wouldn't be able to come up with anything.
Despite the image they like to cultivate of being a serious artiste, most of todays stars are completely manufactured.
It is what it is.
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Post by electriceyes on Feb 20, 2024 21:15:55 GMT
I distinctly remember when Beyonce was on TRL lying and claiming to have written Emotion by the Bee Gees. It was so funny. Carson Daly looked at her like she was crazy. Obviously nobody had told her the sog was a cover. πππ
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Post by ghost on Feb 21, 2024 5:36:12 GMT
I distinctly remember when Beyonce was on TRL lying and claiming to have written Emotion by the Bee Gees. It was so funny. Carson Daly looked at her like she was crazy. Obviously nobody had told her the sog was a cover. πππ I had no idea she had ever claimed to have written "Emotions"
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Is she really that stupid?
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Post by mjjfan810 on Feb 21, 2024 5:45:20 GMT
Movie screenwriters also get screwed. The entertainment industry just doesnβt value writers.
At least movie writers generally donβt have their credits stolen, because they have a strong union.
The recording industry should separate out publishing rights from writing credit so recording artists and producers can share in the revenues without pretending to be songwriters. It bothered me when MJ did this on Invincible, when we know he didn't write a word of songs like Heaven Can Wait, 2000 Watts and Whatever Happens.
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Feb 27, 2024 0:20:08 GMT
this is nothing new. artists been singing other people songs for years. do i blame the artists? not really. if the artist knows who wrote the song then they should definitely give those artists their credit. but from my understanding some of them don't always know the original songwriters.
Michael didn't write all his songs either but he did give the artists their credit.
BeyoncΓ© is not the first and i'm pretty sure she won't be the last. although with her two new singles releases, she did give the producers their credit.
look at Drake the rapper, the guy has a ghostwriter. he doesn't know what genre he wants to do. but the media likes to call him the next Michael Jackson. π€£π€£π€£
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Post by respect77 on Feb 27, 2024 1:09:29 GMT
More or less every artist has controversial writing credits in their catalog, but with Beyonce it seems to be on an industrial level from what I've heard. Which is why she's getting so much criticism and shade for her supposed "songwriting" and her regular practice of putting her name on songs she hasn't written. The peak ridiculousness, and what exposed this practice by the Carters even more, was when her 2 or 3 yo daughter got a Grammy as a songwriter just because they put her name in the credits.
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