Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Though a brief glance at her wikipedia discography shows that she's a credited writer on the majority of her songs. I don't know what that really means. But she gets credit on most of it.

It's how the industry is run these days. The song writers are so happy to get a placement on a big-name album, they are happy to fork over their ownership in exchange for the residuals a 10% stake will get them.

Monkey_Driven wrote:Beyonce is an incredible performer, no doubt. I just don't really care for her songs or voice. Too many vocal runs.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:I think her celebrity is perfectly rated, but her songs mostly suck.

tragabigzanda wrote:I think her celebrity is perfectly rated, but her songs mostly suck.

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Honest question, how much of Beyonce's music does she write? I honestly have no clue.

I can safely assume almost 0%. Very, very few pop acts are writing their own music these days. Taylor Swift and Kanye are anomalies, and I think Kanye has been outsourcing a lot of his songs for a while now. Don't believe the credits in the liner note; Rihanna is a known credit-stealer.

Laura Burhenn will tell you that T Swift is not writing her own stuff.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Honest question, how much of Beyonce's music does she write? I honestly have no clue.

I can safely assume almost 0%. Very, very few pop acts are writing their own music these days. Taylor Swift and Kanye are anomalies, and I think Kanye has been outsourcing a lot of his songs for a while now. Don't believe the credits in the liner note; Rihanna is a known credit-stealer.

Laura Burhenn will tell you that T Swift is not writing her own stuff.

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