Originally Posted by Hav_mor91:
“Someone writes the lyrics someone comes up with the music I.e Elton John and Bernie Taupin or Lennon/McCartney Or Morrissey/marr what exactly is the issue there equal artistic input yet some demand it be only one person to be a ''songwriter'' it's frankly an odd attitude to have.”
It's always bit a bit of an odd one...
Going back way before you probably thought when you wrote that post:
If you look at Opera, everyone always remembers the composer of the music so much so that the Opera becomes inextricably linked to their name... Puccini's La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata etc... no one
ever remembers the poor guy who wrote all the words!!
Possibly what people object to is that it has gone to the other extreme these days where so called "artists" will add a comma somewhere and then claim to have "co-written" a song.