Elton John is part one of the most successful songwriting duos of all time for nearly all of his popular body of work—Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics and he wrote the music. That’s not a good example but many, many (the majority of pop acts from the inception of the genre) don’t write their own songs (lyrics or music).…

For the first (and still to this day, only) company to own an entire superhero brand, Warner Bros. did remarkably little with it during the big boom of the genre. It could have been the company’s Golden Age and they let it go by.

Oh please, like he wasn’t already doing that.

It is fine, but I was responding to your contention that the songwriting credits are long because of sampling and interpolations. That can be the case with a lot of music nowadays (rap or otherwise), particularly since you might be crediting a sample of a sample. But 17 non-sample/non-interpolation writers is still A…

But there’s 17 listed writers whose contributions are not because of sampling or interpolations. 

Was listening to a podcast about songwriting, and IIRC, it used to be pretty common for pop songs to only be written by one or two people. Now, pop songs are often written by whole teams. But the impression I got was it’s a team of like 5 or 6 people. I don’t care one way or another, but 17 definitely strikes me as a…

Like, this is off topic from this particular subject (song credits), but it wracks my brain how Beyonce has not gotten any ounce of criticism for not making any kind of statement in support of abortion rights, particularly with her pride from being from Texas. (Or at least not one that I’ve seen publicized) And maybe…

that’s kinda sorta what’s not happening here. the songwriting credits are long because of the sampling and interpolations. that list has only gotten longer in hiphop and r&b since the Blurred Lines suit. You have to credit or else you get sued if your song even has a similar melody - Ed Sheeran did this to settle…

The blind Beyoncé worship is bad enough but the ridiculous levels of defensiveness when so much as a whisper of criticism is directed her way is beyond ridiculous. No one is above reproach or questioning or criticism. People need to stop with that nonsense. If she’s as fucking brilliant as her fans want us to believe,…

Hold up... Beyonce absolutely deserves to get called out. That Daily Beast article cited above even notes how she’s got a bad habit of using “I” and not “we” when discussing her music. From that article:

That seems like a flawed approach. Taylor Swift’s response is more recent, so of course there’s going to be more active discussion about it on Twitter right now...

Sorry, ‘silencing’? I’m just trying to understand how it’s sexist to say that Taylor Swift has used her private jet more than anyone else this year when she has, in fact, used her private jet more than anyone else this year.

Don’t know about this - Drake is taking just as much, if not more, flack for being atop this list and then trying to defend it by saying that it’s OK because there aren’t other people on his flights.

Just to clarify, are you suggesting that she did not, in fact, take the most private jet trips this year, and that these bloggers are lying? Or, she actually did take the most private jet trips this year, but each of her 170+ trips was an attempt to escape this warzone you speak of, and each time she discovered,…

This is outrageous.

How about commemorating all of the hard working real life meth dealers, Albuquerque? How about them?

I do hope your wedding gift to her was just a folded note that read “You are Lisa [surname].”

Watching a movie on a big theater screen is magical but how many of can honestly say we have seen most or even any of the greatest movies ever made at a theater.

Shang-Chi actually represents the first time Cretton got to make a project about Asian-ness. maybe he could’ve made something sooner, maybe not. but when you set aside the potentials and what-ifs, the fact is that marvel was the first studio that let him do an Asian-centric project, and at a blockbuster budget no less

And let’s talk about the examples she picked: those are all the POC directors of Marvel. When they got signed, the A.V. Club was publishing articles about how POC never got opportunities in Hollywood and how them getting the job was a big step for diversity. Now, it’s a sign that things are getting worst? Damned if…

It’s almost as bad as the implication that those directors are now somehow Property of Disney and don’t have their whole lives to continue making the films they want. Who wouldn’t take the opportunity to bank a few million reliably working for the machine so that they can broaden their options later in their careers?…