Adele song writer of the year - are you having a laugh?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/ents/top_stories/story18107224.shtml
Surely there is something seriously wrong with this award now? While I don't don't Adele is a 'decent' songwriter as far as I'm aware lots of co-writers helps progress her work. I doubt this award is for a group effort.
Surely there is something seriously wrong with this award now? While I don't don't Adele is a 'decent' songwriter as far as I'm aware lots of co-writers helps progress her work. I doubt this award is for a group effort.
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That last bit shocked me, I get it lyrically, but RITD is so superior musically. Take THAT? WHa?
To win any songwriting award you have to write your own songs not have an army of professional songwriters write them for you. But these days even dotting a "i" and crossing a "t" will win you a british songwriting award.
First Taylor Swift with her ridiculously boring love and heartbreak songs, and now Adele with her bitter and slightly obsessive break-up ballads, most of which she didn't write on her own...the best songwriters are the ones who can cover a range of styles and still make it work. Ester Dean is one.
It's like beyonce and mariah I know they co-write their own songs mariah in particular is very hands on however i'd like to see these people write a song all by themselves lyrics and melody just something I feel strongly about as a songwriter myself.
They didn't have to award her anything you could say the same of Pj Harvey who has won the more serious awards all year with england stop being so cynical perhaps they thought she deserved it.
good to see you raging again, the critical acclaim and commercial success keeps rolling in for adele
Adele accepted the award with her co-writer Paul Epworth and gave him credit.
Most of the songs on "21" are written by Adele and one other person. She also wrote 6 of the 12 tracks on "19" on her own, teamed up with one other songwriter on 4 tracks, leaving the one track with five writers and a cover. If I'm not mistaken, Taylor Swift wrote about half of her debut album and second album with one or more other writers yet you're giving Adele a hard time for writing with someone on hers. I wouldn't really criticise another artist for doing something that your favourite has also done twice in her career. At least Adele wrote a track like "Hometown Glory" on her own and managed to not have it sound like a diary entry of a 12 year old nerd who still believes in fairy tales.
But then Taylor Swift is never exactly going to win any renowned songwriting awards with:
That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles,
And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet"
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you, "Please don't go"
And I said...
or
She's not a saint
And she's not what you think
She's an actress, whoa
She's better known
For the things that she does
On the mattress, whoa
Soon she's gonna find
Stealing other people's toys
On the playground won't
Make you many friends
She should keep in mind
She should keep in mind
There is nothing I do better than revenge
*swiftly swallows vomit*
And another award that has been proven to be totally worthless now, like many awards they are down valued due to the people that receive them, no bigger example of that here. If they wanted to give out an award then it should have been given to her army of songwriters, but as someone else stated, they had to fit her in somewhere, pretty lame really.
Well said! And did you notice how GL completely ignores that Taylor Swift uses co-writers in her very next post?! That is hilarious! Cause admitting that would make her look like a complete fool and ass rolled up as one huge hypocrite.
Take your hate somewhere else. Its getting boring now.
A big part of music is collaboration so why are people being so uptight about it, at least she contributes! I've seen comments calling the show a popularity contest but if she hadn't won anything people would have called it pretentious and a "credibility" contest. I know not everyone is going to agree with every award given out but that album connected with a lot of people and for me personally, THAT is what songwriting is really about and so it should be recognized.
exactly! it doesn't matter if you don't write all the parts, she's being acknowledged for the excellence of her contribution. it's like saying Lennon/McCartney, Marr/Morrissey, Strummer/Jones (name your own fave combo) aren't good songwriters cos a lot of their best work was a collaboration....that's how music gets made
And ive had enough of Adele threads now, they all end up the same so i'll leave it there:p
What joy !