And does it make you feel better to know that your fave needs help with a song as simplistic as something such as Run the World (Girls)? Let's get into those writing credits:
Terius "The-Dream" Nash
Beyoncé Knowles
Wesley Pentz
David Taylor
Adidja Palmer
Nick van de Wall
Did you ever think that there are so many people credited because of the SAMPLE used, so everyone credited on "Pon de Floor" had to be credited on "Run the World" as well?
Completely ignoring the melody, harmony, and arrangement. All of which have to be WRITTEN.
Ooop spilling that hot tea.
But commence with people posting the same ole videos talking about beyonce has added nothing to songwriting process. While other bring up the fact with receipt's that songwriting is much more than just lyrics
The reason why that was brought was because it proves that she gets credit
Tell us something we don't know. So should she not get any credit at all?
That's a formal question. I'm wondering what you think should happen in the instance she rearranges the song vocally and leaves the lyrics intact.
“It doesn’t matter who’s writing the songs, or who’s producing the songs. It’s who’s delivering the motherf****r. It really doesn’t matter if Beyonce is actually sitting there physically writing the song. Even if she’s not, it don’t mean she can’t. She might not have the time. It doesn’t matter, because you can work with artists who write, or work with artists that’s Beyonce’s level… For me… It doesn’t matter. The people outside looking in, they wanna know if she writes her own songs or if she ain’t. At the end of the day, she’s on a level where things are handed to her; people wanna be a part of what she’s doing. She either wrote it, or she can put her name on it – it doesn’t matter because that’s the boss you are.”
- Bangladesh
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I remember watching Barbara Walters interview Beyoncé about "Bootylicious," and she told Barbara about how she came up with the idea for the track. And I was just like, "What?" I called Mathew-which was a big mistake; I got emotional, and I apologized after-but I called Mathew and said, "Mathew, like, why?"
And he explained to me, in a nice way, he said, "People don't want to hear about Rob Fusari, producer from Livingston, N.J. No offense, but that's not what sells records. What sells records is people believing that the artist is everything." And I'm like, "Yeah, I know, Mathew. I understand the game. But come on, I'm trying too. I'm a squirrel trying to get a nut, too."
- Rob Fusari
About the controversy regarding "If I Were a Boy":
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There is nothing particularly sinister or even unusual about this. BC (which apparently stands for Beautiful Child), wrote about a dozen songs with Gad for her own album, but when her deal fell apart, the producer shopped the songs around to established artists. Beyonce's manager father, Matthew Knowles, aggressively pursued the publishing rights, knowing a hit when he heard one.
And.........?
Those "other eight writers" could've added a word here or there and tweaked a few things. You know? The same thing you say is "stealing" when Beyonce does it.
So she wrote the whole song and hired 8 other people to write a word each?
Did you ever think that there are so many people credited because of the SAMPLE used, so everyone credited on "Pon de Floor" had to be credited on "Run the World" as well?
Did you ever think that there are so many people credited because of the SAMPLE used, so everyone credited on "Pon de Floor" had to be credited on "Run the World" as well?
Mhm so explain the amount of people involved in crafting some of the other gems from "4" which includes:
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Best Thing I Never Had
Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds
Antonio Dixon
Knowles
Patrick "J. Que" Smith
S. Taylor
Larry Griffin, Jr.
Caleb McCampbell
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Countdown
Nash
S. Taylor
Knowles
Dean
Cainon Lamb
Julie Frost
Michael Bivins
Nathan Morris
Wanya Morris
This wasn't a drag... and Linda did say Beyonce is talented in a completely different way, so even if she didn't create the majority of the song lyrics in one song, she could have written the melody and chord arrangements.
So she still deserves songwriting credits in that case. But wow 13 pages tho.
Creating a melody isn't nearly as hard as creating lyrics.
Really? Are you serious? Do you even believe the crap you keep writing?
Let's talk melody a little. Shakira's song Dare is full of Lalalalalalala. If it wasn't for the melody of those La La, the song would have never left the recording studio.
Melody is as important and as hard as writing lyrics. If not more.
Good lyrics without a good melody are wasted lyrics.
But that's not all she's doing
She's writing melodies, harmonies, vocal arrangement, etc..
Beyonce's final version has the exact same melody, lyrics (apart from literally ONE word). There are a few harmonies that are different, that's about it. Literally seconds out of the whole song, and harmonies that don't change the song that much at all. WHY does she have a writing credit on it?
