Adele is on course to sell 3M copies of 25 in the US in the first week

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spemanig said:

AlfredoTurkey said:

Because imo, it's like selling someone else's painting and taking credit for it. She sings someone elses songs, and said person sits in the shadows, unrecognized and unappreciated by the public. Sure, she has an amazing voice, but amazing voices are a dime a dozen. Singer songwriters who perform are much more talented.

I could go on Youtube right now and find 10 amazing singers doing cover versions of other people's music. But I could search for 10 years and be lucky to find ONE great singer song writer. 

It's just the whole underhanded nature of pop music these days that I loath.

It's not anything like that at all. Song writing and singing are two completely seperate skills that require two completely opposite talent sets. There's nothing underhanded about it. Some pheonominal song writers are shitty singers. Some pheonominal singers are crappy song writers. It's stupid to limit the creation of a beautiful peice of music just because someone doesn't house both skills in the same vessel.

That's like saying it's underhanded for actors to not write their own scripts. Is it underhanded for a skilled piano player to make a name for himself with great established works? Or how about saying "fuck you" to every single orchestra player who performed the initial recording of the Harry Potter theme. That should have been John Williams performing everything. I'm never playing another video game unless the person writing, voice acting, composing, and programing the game is one guy.

See how silly that is? Adele is a more talented vocalist than 99% of the mainstream singer-songwriters today. It's silly to put down the credibility of that just success just because those songs aren't hers. Singer-songwriters aren't "more talented." They just have more talents that happen to overlap in their field.

It's nothing like selling someone else's painting. It's also not a "pop music" thing. Every genre does it, and they've been doing it for literally decades. Unless you think Frank Sinatra, and literally every big name jazz singer of that era got big singing "standards" that they themselves wrote.

Lol wow. An amazing post. Thanks.