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Songwriting is not dead, of course. But great songwriting, if not dead, is on life support.

Why? For the same reason that everything that goes to hell goes to hell: Greed.

Many (not all) of the classic songs were written by someone other than who performed them. Then performers discovered they could make more money by writing the songs and getting the writer's cut.

So a very skilled musician and/or vocalist now decides to perform marginal self-written material.

No one thinks this is odd. But imagine what would happen to the quality of motion pictures if actors started writing the scripts.

I know people can start rattling off exceptions - I can think of a bunch myself. But they are still exceptions.

I state this as fact. But, of course, it is only my curmudgeonly opinion

Scott

PS - Thanks Kevin