• greenshirtdenimjeans
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    1 day ago

    Most of her hits, of which she hasn’t had one in like 10 years, were not even written by her.

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      16 hours ago

      You can say the same about Elvis Presley and half of Motown. That’s not the mark of musical talent, that’s a mark of compositional talent.

      There are plenty of more legitimate things to criticize her for.

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        True but not all of em. Lady Gaga writes most of her stuff for example and I think Taylor Swift does too.

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          18 hours ago

          Taylor Swift writes a loose outline and Jack Antonoff does most of the lifting lets be real

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            9 hours ago

            I’ll take your word for it. My knowledge consists of looking at the writing credits on her wikipedia pages.