Quote: I never understood this mentality. Does a musician have to be good at EVERYTHING to be considered a good musician? Is Jimmy Page some how less of a musician because Robert Plant wrote the lyrics to the songs he played? Being good at singing doesn't mean you also have to be good at song writing. How is a song any less good because it was created by five or six people instead of two or three? It's a ridiculous mentality.
I agree with you. Just the other day we were talking about a famous pianist that didn't write his own music. He would just play and somebody would write it down as he went, because he couldn't do it himself. Does that make him a shitty musician? Hell no. Maybe Jero remembers his name? I think it was you who brought him up.
Quote: More of the lesser known people write their own songs but 95% of the people that make the top 10 songs don't write them.
From the Billboard Top 100, these are some of the people who write their own songs:
Katy Perry
Ke$ha
Onerepublic
Eminem
Rihanna
Jason Derulo
2 Chainz
Lorde
Those were only ones I looked up from the first 10 of the top 100, but you get the idea.
Another thing to note is that the 'awesome' songs that you are talking about, are all the best songs from that age. There was plenty of bad, redundant bands that played the same crap as everybody else, and now everybody forgets about them. 20 years from now, only the best songs from this age will be remembered and many people will have the same mindset of "music was so much better 20 years ago, what's happened to it?"
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