Major Songwriters sign open letter to the Music Industry: "Stop Demanding Credit for Songs You Didn't Write"

[mythology]

Beyonce must be so pressed... and I'm here for it

[Sea flower]

It is about time! Do you recall some years ago Bonnie Mckee said in an interview that she liked working with Britney because she respected songwriters and didn't steal credits unlike other artists? They should expose them. It is not okay to lie and be a fraud.

Also it is 100% okay if an artist just perfoms a song and doesn't write it, doesn't make them a worse artist, lying does!

 

 

[MissSpearsSaysSo]

Britney remains unbothered!  

But those BJ writing credits.. gurl..  

[Armchairrevolution]

Some of these girls don't even sing their own songs let alone write them. Not naming names cos I'm real ... Just turn it up and turn it on 

[RadicalOptimism]

6 hours ago, Alexanda said:

 

Everyone has bills to pay and it is kinda their choice but at the same time: It's not

Get some money on their terms or nothing at all is just not fair. 

And it's understandable that they want changes for the new generation of songwriters. 

It's stealing after all! 

Everyone does have bills to pay but we all have a choice on what we do to get them paid. I’m betting it’s caused by less work or people not wanting to work with them anymore. This is always how these things start. The artists demanding it are in the wrong too, but so are the songwriters agreeing to it in the first place. That’s some bs to talk about it after benefiting for so long 

[IUSAtonight]

Someone delete Britney Jean quickly

Too much territory marking :

[Sia]

15 hours ago, InTheZone4Life said:

I’m honestly scared for Dua. Some of these people have written on her biggest tracks

You totally missed the point of the letter. Nobody is coming for Dua.

Dua didn’t write New Rules and she’s not credited as a writer on it either. The fact that writers who have worked with Dua are part of the campaign doesn’t meant she specifically took credit for any songs she didn’t write. Dua IS involved in the songwriting of the majority of her songs.

[PickleSpears]

I would love for there to be a movement where songwriters call out the artists that actually do this. Obviously Britney doesn't (except maybe Britney Jean?) but there have been rumors that other artists do (cough Beyonce cough). It's not cool and I can't believe people get away with it. It's fraud and they get paid for it which is even worse.

[TSmidnighTS]

2 hours ago, Sia said:

You totally missed the point of the letter. Nobody is coming for Dua.

Dua didn’t write New Rules and she’s not credited as a writer on it either. The fact that writers who have worked with Dua are part of the campaign doesn’t meant she specifically took credit for any songs she didn’t write. Dua IS involved in the songwriting of the majority of her songs.

I actually wasn’t talking about the New Rules song specifically. She has writing credits on every song on FN. And multiple people from this list worked on that album.

[Blackout2006]

23 hours ago, InTheZone4Life said:

It's long been an "open secret" in the industry dating back to Elvis Presley.

Imagine if he was a female pop star. He would have to live his full life hearing "sHe dOeSn'T wRitE hEr sOnGs, sHe iS a PuPpeT" 

[MissSpearsSaysSo]

4 hours ago, IUSAtonight said:

Someone delete Britney Jean quickly

Too much territory marking :

It’s gonna our endfall. And it’s only a matter of time until it Cancels us all.. Broken Jeep is a bitter Bit ch.  

[Blackout2006]

Time to pack yr bags up, @Beyoncé bestie

[Blackout2006]

6 hours ago, MissSpearsSaysSo said:

Britney remains unbothered!  

But those BJ writing credits.. gurl..  

I really wish that album could be deleted and erased  Its going to ruin our girls rep

[Hooked-On-Knee]

45 minutes ago, Blackout2006 said:

Imagine if he was a female pop star. He would have to live his full life hearing "sHe dOeSn'T wRitE hEr sOnGs, sHe iS a PuPpeT" 

Elvis and MJ both faced terrible accusations about grooming, Elvis is celebrated while Michael is looked at as a, "creep", by many. Just goes to show how much Elvis benefitted from being excused by society for being a white man.

[Hooked-On-Knee]

35 minutes ago, Blackout2006 said:

I really wish that album could be deleted and erased  Its going to ruin our girls rep

TBH, Britney fans are LYING to themselves when they say that the album is still good, just not to Britney's standards. At BEST, Work Work and maybe Perfume & Alien are somewhat decent tracks but that's it.

[Blackout2006]

Just now, Hooked-On-Knee said:

Elvis and MJ both faced terrible accusations about grooming, Elvis is celebrated while Michael is looked at as a, "creep", by many. Just goes to show how much Elvis benefitted from being excused by society for being a white man.

Exactly 

When for male white artist, everyone says "separate the work from the personal lives of the artist" but when it comes to female pop stars, that statement goes out of the door  

[Blackout2006]

Just now, Hooked-On-Knee said:

TBH, Britney fans are LYING to themselves when they say that the album is still good, just not to Britney's standards. At BEST, Work Work and maybe Perfume & Alien are somewhat decent tracks but that's it.

Dont forget Hold On Tite bestay  Otherwise, the album was vomit to the ears  Oh Britney, why couldn't u have just made it an EP, WHY a full studio album udxwigdosdx 

[Sia]

2 hours ago, InTheZone4Life said:

I actually wasn’t talking about the New Rules song specifically. She has writing credits on every song on FN. And multiple people from this list worked on that album.

Yah, and its been shown that she does write on her songs. The fact that people who she's worked with are part of this campaign does not mean that she herself is stealing credits. She may not write the entire song herself, but it's pretty obvious she's there and plays a big part of the lyrical process.

[Hooked-On-Knee]

6 minutes ago, Blackout2006 said:

Dont forget Hold On Tite bestay  Otherwise, the album was vomit to the ears  Oh Britney, why couldn't u have just made it an EP, WHY a full studio album udxwigdosdx 

To be honest, FF and Britney Jean would have been much better albums if Britney was serving vocals like on Blackout. Like even if they didn't change anything, the vocals would have still made those terrible songs sound better. But I agree, should have been an EP.

I think after Circus, it was time to move on from the avant-disco sound. Britney sounds so bored on the FF album but it was at least somewhat good. She should have released Glory in 2014 instead because Katy's Darkhorse song was what was the beginning of it being "trendy" for pop girls to release trap music trap music and while Glory isn't trap, it would have fit in a lot better being a tropical house album then it would if it was released in 2013 when EDM was starting to die. 

Plus 2014 and 2016 were Britney's best performances at the Vegas residency (2014 she was serving choreography, 2016 she was serving energy. If her energy was more like her prime because she released Glory, then IMAGINE how she would have done in 2014 when she was performing super fluidly. 2014 just isn't as remembered as much because she looked so bored)

[SS91]

Ok fair. But there is another side to it. I remember Taylor Swift (who we all damn well know write her own stuff) said some producers won’t work with her unless THEY get a song writing credit. And how some have hesitated working on a song she wrote start to finish unless they get a piece. So it’s both ways. But not everyone is a writer like Taylor so I get it