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Originally posted by OprahIsBlack
Not at all overrated. It is rated highly, which is where it belongs. Odds are, if all your songs are being handed to you pre-written by men in suits sitting in a conference room, they will be terrible, impersonal, and you as an artist will not be able to connect with them, and an artist's emotional connection to the material they are performing is what REALLY makes things pop.
I don't pay attention to the ladies in my sig, so I don't know how much, if any, they write, but if I was to be informed that any of them had a heavy hand in writing all of their songs, I would begrudgingly give them a few respect points and hate them a bit less.
A little bit of songwriting goes a long way toward being a credible artist. Even if your lyrics are cheesy at times, at least you wrote them.
I have much disdain for anyone I see in this thread saying writing doesn't mean anything. Like what kind of sad human being thinks that?
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Taylor has written every single song she's recorded, and wrote her third album completely by herself.
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