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But that was always the case. I have the (perhaps incorrect) impression that over time, pop performers perform someone else's materials more and more.
by sorokod 6y ago
But that was always the case. I have the (perhaps incorrect) impression that over time, pop performers perform someone else's materials more and more.
- philmcc 6y agoIt wasn't really always the case. If you scroll back, so to speak, a generation or so, the further and further you get, the less necessary it was to win the trifecta of being Attractive, A Dancer, and a Live Performer. Let alone songwriter. There's only so many people that are all 4 and you know all of them by name. You could be VERY plain looking, and unable to dance at all, and chart in in 1965.
- WalterBright 6y agoFred Astaire's original audition allegedly was noted as: "can act, can sing, can dance a little."
- hnick 6y agoAttraction followed from fame, rather than the other way around.
- aspaceman 6y agoI would argue that it has waxed and waned. 50s most music was written by a composer. Have a songwriter behind a big name like Frank Sinatra. 60s has a surge of bands producing their own music in a smallish crew (Beatles, Beach Boys). But then arena rock was tightly controlled by the industry, but then Nirvana and grunge got big.
- rhart92 6y agoThat's a really interesting point. Do you think that pattern applies to other genres too?
- alfiedotwtf 6y agoYep. And to go to the extreme like Milli Vanilli, when they’re performing they’re not even the one’s actually singing!