Originally Posted by Scott Campbell
Songwriting is not dead, of course. But great songwriting, if not dead, is on life support. smile

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. smile

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

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

Scott

PS - Thanks Kevin smile



I agree and I dont even think it's because of writers writing their own, it's because writers copy what came before them, the guys following the beatles had it good, what will the writers who look to Miley Cyrus songs for inspiration and to learn from?

As it goes on down the lines its going to get worse and worse as, the next generation wont know any great songwriters.