How do you feel about albums with many, many writers?

I've been curious what people on Sup Forums thought about this in general.

I know it doesn't change the quality of whatever you're listening to, but how does it change, if at all, how you perceive an artist/group that has a ton of people writing their songs along with the artist/group themselves?

For example, pic related is the track listing for MBDTF on Wikipedia that includes the writer credits for each song. I'm sure you guys all knew that already but I wasn't aware personally (mostly because I still haven't listened through the album). Does knowing that change your perception of the music/artist at all?

People praise Kanye as one of the best -- if not THE best -- hip-hop artists of the generation. Do the writing credits discredit that opinion at all? I just looked now at TPAB and it's pretty much the same, though with noticeably fewer other people in the writing credits.

You mean like the small platoon that goes into any given Beyonce song?

>it's a globalists shill got BTFO trying to slander Lana so they switch to Kanye thread

In terms of Kanye West, if I remember correctly, he tends to over credit his albums. He pretty much gives credit to everybody and anybody who was there during the recording process. So I don't think massive writing credits reflect on him badly.

With Kendrick, I'm 95% positive he doesn't use ghost writers, and that all the writing credits are for the production, which is fine by me.

I guess it depends on what the writing credits are for, and even then it's hard to tell since they can be misleading. Generally speaking, I don't really care that much about writing credits, though it's a really great way to insult a shit artist you already don't like.

MBDTF is overrated and Kanye gets way too much credit as some kind of producing-and-rapping ~auteur~ given how little production and writing he actually does, but nah not really, if it still sounds good and the artist isn't pretending they're somehow doing it all alone why should I care
A song produced by and featuring performances from eight people which uses a sample having nine writers isn't weird

doesn't TLOP has like 2 times more credits than Lemonade?

I give half a fuck about pop music, but I think I heard some of those Beyonce songs have 50+ people working on them.

The whole mainstream music industry is fake as fuck.

Wouldn't a globalist shill want to support Kanye and Lana since they're big mainstream people, which means (in your mind, if you're not joking) they're owned by The Jews?

I, too, get my opinions on pop culture from 9gag dadrock memes

>some of those Beyonce songs have 50+ people working on them
link?

who knows? I have more faith in Kanye being forthright though.

There is literally nothing I believe about the most like fictitious character known as 'Beyonce Knowles'.

How does fifty people working on a song make it 'fake'
Is one person getting help with writing a song from another person 'fake' too
Is a soloist playing an orchestral piece a talentless hack because they didn't write the piece or perform most of the parts?

you would think, but here we are.

Kanye obvs went rogue.

Frankly I'm shocked LDR isn't corrupt.

Kanye is literally the male version of Beyonce you dumb virgin sexist

McDonald's? Disgusting artificial trash... I trust Burger King to be honest with me

like the mainstream press is going to talk about it


they're still pretending her marriage and first pregnancy were real.

eventually the question has to be asked:

if you're listening to a (((Beyonce))) song on (((tidal))) that's chock full of native advertising....is it even music anymore?

no way, kanye supports trump, the self made man, no way hes in cahoots with the rich tyrants

so you're not going to validate your words?

I mean it sure sounded like music when I pirated it and listened to it a couple times

Not a huge Kanye fan. He was obvs operating in a very similar manner as Beyonce for awhile.

But at the end of the day, he's not completely corrupt.

She's (?) completely corrupt.

>music that is on a website I dislike is not music

when an artist isn't free to create in earnest is it still art?

>he's not completely corrupt.
>She's (?) completely corrupt.
how do you know?

The meme producers/writers is the Ghostwriter of Literature
Your sucking a thousand of dicks and you dont know it.

I mean she's done shitty things and is basically a cynically marketed brand with nothing at the centre but it's not like the music's all bad so why should I care about that shit if I'm not drinking the Beyhive Kool Aid

Yes
That notion of sincerity is some weird intentional fallacy shit that doesn't fit at all with the actual history of art

Except we do know it, because it's all clearly written in the liner notes and online
There are a lot of people who think Kanye writes and produces almost all of his own music but they just don't know shit about their favourite rapper and should Google it for like two minutes

I have ZERO tolerance for that shit

I only listen to legit independent artists.

no, I'm not questioning sincerity, I'm questioning (as many artists have said) if they're allowed to create freely. I don't think they are.

>why should I care if the music I listen to is soulless, hollow and corrupt?

Seriously?

>I only listen to legit independent artists.
Are you joking
Please tell me your favourite artists

Francis Ford Coppola had nowhere near complete artistic freedom when he made The Godfather, still a work of art

>Robert Fripp
Do they actually count samples?

kek, no fucking way am I listing artists I care about


List them here, and the next thing I know they'll be on SNL glassy eyed and singing about transgender restrooms.

You do realise that things can sound good without fitting neatly in your bullshit authenticity boxes
Am I meant to not listen to Ella Fitzgerald because she sings Gershwin songs instead of writing everything herself? Am I meant to not listen to Bob Dylan because he was a carefully branded product?

robert fripp's verse on power was fucking fire

Ah, so you're either deeply paranoid or too shook to talk about bands you enjoy
Maybe you don't like music at all and just like trying to shit on things you don't understand, I dunno
Feel free to change your mind if you get over yourself, very curious as to which truly independent artists you think are without sin

yep. What do you think shit like dance punk/daft punk/dna records was about?

removing meaningful content from the indie music world.

It sounds crazy, but these are the times we live in


cats out of the bag on you dudes

Removing meaningful content like rapists singing about Cowboy Dan being a major player in the cowboy scene or a yawning stoner waxing lyrical about carrot rope
What a tragic loss for the West's youth culture

>List them here, and the next thing I know they'll be on SNL glassy eyed and singing about transgender restrooms.
yep.

if you take corporate money or sign contracts you're gonna get what's coming to you


Father John Misty of all people was recently talking about this.

yeah, who needs free independent thought and expression.

a colluded centrally controlled (((Hollywood-esque))) systems is obviously sooooooooo much better.

You do realise that the US and the UK are both run by right-wing ghouls, right
Why would evil cultural Marxists be lurking on Sup Forums's 10th most popular board to snatch up the shitty music you like and somehow pay the artists to be woke

With a few exceptions indie music never said shit that wasn't basically navel gazing
If you want to find independent modern music that expresses non-mainstream sentiments and hasn't been co-opted by major labels, listen to underground gangster rap, it's great
But if you don't actually care about music so much as the idea of music as it pertains to your zany Jewish conspiracy theorists, just fuck off desu

right wing v. left wing is a false dichotomy

and fuck off, anyone w/ two brain cells to rub together knows this board is rotten w/ shills.

Please, give an example or two of the meaningful content that the world of indie music has been missing since LCD Soundsystem got Best New Music or whatever, I just wanna know

I mean it's reductive but not really
Do you think Trump's administration are actively trawling Sup Forums for indie artists to exploit, yes or no

I was here for years and the only shills were like Bandcamp math rock guys or w/e

nigga plz


the independent music scene of the 80/90s kicked the mainstream music scenes ass so badly they were forced to covertly co-opt it


it's lie upon lie upon lie w/ you people

>corporate rock apologist shills


I've seen it all

Yeah, and that floodgate was thrown open by a man shouting "A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido" over the same riff for three minutes
What creative genius

>Do you think Trump's administration are actively trawling Sup Forums for indie artists to exploit, yes or no
no, I doubt it

people behind soetoro though are same behind beyonce/grizzly bear/joanna newsom/kendrick lamar etc etc.

You didn't answer my question lol

literally quoting a fucking Geffen artist


baka

again, I will not aid you people by listing the names of credible/important artists on here.

people in actual music scenes talk retards

Kendrick Lamar very organically came up through typical hip-hop routes before he became the go-to white person's favourite rapper
Don't mistake the co-option of art by big corporations to sell magazines as evidence of an elaborate conspiracy

Please describe these exciting authentic artists to me friend, no names needed, just let me know what makes them so special and close to your heart that you fear their success

So the alternative revolution was dead before it began, yes

>2017
>sell magazines

are you guys even trying?


And anyone w/ half a brain can separate the real from the fake.

When Barry Soetoro is name dropping you, well....aint hard to tell.

So I'm a shill who doesn't understand what I'm even shilling for, right, got you

Anyone with half a brain can tell that the immense evil that permeates this world has relatively little with Grizzly Bear getting signed to a major label lol
Obama name dropped artists to look like a cool and friendly drone bomber, not to drop breadcrumbs for your goofy conspiracies

Grizzly Bear

kek

>born rich
>dad lifelong friends with '''John Kerry'''

pretends he can't afford health insurance.

how convenient

Nothing about this fake culture is one the level.

Literally nothing.

it's all fake colluded garbage, and that why I (an tons of other people) deeply resent it.

>Obama name dropped artists to look like a cool and friendly drone bomber
we can finally agree on something

Anf Jay-Z and Beyonce totally coincidently show up at his show in Williamsburg. It's all corrupt. From root to stem. Nothing about this hijacking if a culture is innocuous.

Three famous people strengthen their personal brands by hopping on a P4K-hyped band who've been around for years and are on the rise
Frankly I don't see where the sinister deep state are entering the picture here pal

>Obama name dropped artists to look like a cool and friendly drone bomber,
which btw the entire fake independent music scene didn't utter a peep about


but like omg, he said 'grab them by the pussy'

Sorry that you feel the need to play devil's advocate for the stupidest president of all time instead of just shitting on Obama for his many failings

I didn't vote. And have never voted for anyone or anything.

Frankly, I expect things to be corrupt at that level.

But I will speak up when the culture me and my friends helped build is being corrupted and exploited.

Not to be a dick but I suspect you have done nothing to build any culture in your entire life
And you conveniently get to pretend you have by acting like I, a 21-year-old British student who has never voted, am some kind of shadowy conspirator who's trying to destroy art as we know it

fuck off. despite your agenda, not everyone on here is a fat 18 year old virgin.

If you're actually on the level (seriously doubt it), and you're 21, you're wayyyy too young to have experienced what I'm talking about.

I have no agenda
Full disclosure, I'm a dumb socialist who hates capitalism and thinks that art's primary nature being a product to be sold has horrific implications for the future of art, but I still think you're full of shit

What are you talking about you bitter old fuck, cynical marketing of music you don't like? Boo hoo
Yes indie music has been fucked over by big corporations, but that's just capitalism operating as normal, nothing to do with a conspiracy that reaches as high as government (who, obviously, are corrupt, but don't intervene directly in indie rock band shit because why the fuck would they).
If you believe that everyone who disagrees with you online is as an ebil government agent who's trying to ruin your life, maybe you should log off once in a while

>t. Butthurt pop fan

Oops wrong user
see above

I listen to music that sounds good whether it's Charles Ives or Ginuwine instead of the music that's marketed to me as reel tru music for hip dorks, how foolish of me

You credit people as a writer if you use a sample of their work in yours, unless you actually think Robert Fripp, Mike Oldfield, Manfred Mann, Peter Sinfield, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Michael Giles, Gil Scott-Heron, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward, Lommi, Geezer, Aphex Twin, Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, and Jon Anderson actually were there in the studio helping Kanye make the album.

And to your actual question: No, it does not change my perception at all.

oh okay, so youre stupid, gotcha