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Yes, absolutely. What discernible talent did John Lennon have when he got involved with the industry? There is no level of training or 'talent' that has ever re
by Tycho 16y ago
Yes, absolutely. What discernible talent did John Lennon have when he got involved with the industry? There is no level of training or 'talent' that has ever reliably led to great songwriting. Nobody has a formula for great songs, it's not like programming where one a great hacker = always a great hacker, able to get the job done. It's all just shots in the dark. You can already see as the money falls out of hip hop that it's dying out and fewer young rappers are appearing.
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- notahacker 16y agoWhen John Lennon was writing songs in his skiffle band as a teenager recording artists generally didn't make much money. He wrote songs because he wanted to make music other people listened to, not because he anticipated the unprecedented financial rewards of Beatlemania. Now I'm sure that a lot of the artists and supporting people behind the X Factor, American Idol etc also genuinely love music, but ultimately they're franchises organised by music industry insiders to help artists get famous and their backers get rich. Half the time they don't even bother to employ songwriters; covers of existing songs sell well too. You see, I agree there's no formula for great songs, but there's certainly a formula for making large amounts of money successful hit records, and that's at best orthogonal to great original songwriting. I'm not going to ask whether you think the armies of songwriters, producers, choreographers and session musicians lured by the dollars of Cowell et al. have managed to match the creative output of one Liverpudlian lad.