[T-Swizz]

Originally posted by Anvarie

It's been exactly one year since I got my last fm account so I thought I'd show you guys my bey stats

Top 15 most played songs


Top Artists



And her albums

4 - 1504 plays
Beyoncé - 943 plays
I Am Sasha Fierce - 815 plays
B'Day - 760 plays
I Am World Tour - 739 plays
Dangerously in Love - 330 plays

[qurl]

Originally posted by Chronix

Guys I know my behavior in that thread was a mess but I was sacrificing myself to derail the thread.

lmao sis I was like 'noooooo'

let them have it if it makes them feel better. when you have Britney stans in a thread talking to you about artistic involvement / integrity you should already know it's just not worth it you can only reason with....... a certain type of person so much

[22 Two's]

WORK IT OUT is my **** right now.... it sounds like I'm listening to a veteran funk artist and it makes me feel good.

btw I'm back from banland; I already started dragging in this writing credits thread

[qurl]

Originally posted by 22 Two's

WORK IT OUT is my **** right now.... it sounds like I'm listening to a veteran funk artist and it makes me feel good.

btw I'm back from banland; I already started dragging in this writing credits thread

wb!

[22 Two's]

Originally posted by qurl

wb!

[Iman]

Originally posted by Anvarie

It's been exactly one year since I got my last fm account so I thought I'd show you guys my bey stats

Top 15 most played songs


Top Artists



And her albums

4 - 1504 plays
Beyoncé - 943 plays
I Am Sasha Fierce - 815 plays
B'Day - 760 plays
I Am World Tour - 739 plays
Dangerously in Love - 330 plays

rtw

Originally posted by MyaKoiv

This photo is so inspiring.

asssss

[Hivy]

Originally posted by MyaKoiv

This photo is so inspiring.

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[Surfboardt]

These Buzzfeed guys are such stans https://youtu.be/KOUY7nummFo

[nuclear]

Now we know why Deja vu always get paid dust on tour
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[J-esper]

Originally posted by YeaBey4ever

it's crazy how most of her songs that I hated initially are some of my all time favorites. RTW, Why Don't You Love Me... the entire B'Day album

You hated B'Day

[sadnews]

that thread was mess. and looks like closed so.. here is my post.

unless she claime to write that song and took a big percentage of that song. it's no big deal.
I'm sure she have like 5~10% publishing like pretty hurts (5%)
*some peopel don't understand those things, but the name order means nothing.
how about ASCAP's list? jay-z is the first.

beyonce never claimed to write deja vu and always mentioned Makeba Riddick as writer, said she is amazing from radio intervew to tv interview.
and it's known story that Beyonce got the deja vu and called Makeba Riddick to write with.
also we don't even know If that's the original demo or final version during sessions.
Makeba Riddic was with beyonce for 3wks, all day with other producers and writers so..
it wasn't ordinary studio sesstion as she was doing 3~4 song at all once.

I woudln't be suprised she get credit for that intro line tho. (+ part of business)
it was the moment in the song that make unique.
in urban music scene. many producers or rappers takes credit for making 1 catch line If it's one of the moment on the song.
(If you don't get it, check linda perry's interview on it,)
and she might helped some lines for jay-z rap. it's known thing that rappers do get helps during writing. from rhyme to some catch punch line and word choices and which lyrics to use.
(like kanye and Qitip)

anyway we will never know unless rodney or Makeba do some talk on it.

either way, Makeba Riddic and others doesn't have a problem with it.
in fact, Makeba mentioned her a lot even few years later as best.

Q; Beyonce mentioned you in a recent interview on MTV, and said that you were one of the women who inspired her while working on her album "B'Day". How did that make you feel? And did you enjoy working with her?

A: Well Beyonce has been mentioning me in a lot of interviews and it makes me feel incredible. The first time I heard her mention me on an interview I was driving and I was so shocked to hear her say my name on the radio I almost crashed. I couldn't believe it. She such an inspiration to me from her music, to her drive to everything she's achieved as a young black woman. It blows me away to think any lil thing about me would inspire her. It's an honor. We had a ball in the studio working on her album. It was like a 3 wk slumber party for real. I think we all enjoyed each others company. I grew close with not only her but her cousin and sister who also wrote with us on the album. That's the most fun I've ever had working with an artist.

http://monicamania.blogdrive.com/archive/1614.html

BallerStatus.com: Out of all the people you just mentioned, which was the most enjoyable experience?

Makeba Riddick: I've enjoyed working with all the artists that I've worked with. I think working on the B-Day album, it was so much fun. It was like a slumber party. Everyday it was like a party up in that piece, and it wasn't a lot of us. It was her (Beyonce) team that she wanted to work with, ultimately, and closely with. We had a ball. Like when you hear Beyonce, you think about the biggest artist alive of our generation, but it didn't feel like "I'm coming to work with Beyonce." It was just a lot of fun.

BallerStatus.com: You would think somebody of her stature would have such a huge ego.

Makeba Riddick: Oh my goodness. I think that's why we were able to come up with the fun records that we did because she was so cool. I mean, at the end of the day, all these artists are regular people. She's a regular girl just like me, you, or anybody else. Like her sister, her cousin, and anybody else. That's who came in the studio everyday. It wasn't Beyonce, the "superstar." It was Beyonce the girl who has feelings, who gets happy, excited, mad, and disappointed. So all of that came out in writing those records.

http://www.ballerstatus.com/2009/03/...xtraordinaire/

We worked together every day, pulling 14-hour days," Riddick says of the recording process. "I see the reason why she is the biggest artist of our generation: Her work ethic is unlike anything I've ever seen. She would tell us to be there at 11 o'clock in the morning and we would be there until, like, four or five in the morning. But she would be there before 11 a.m. When we got there, she was already there, working.

"Her concepts were so incredible," Riddick continues. "I never saw an artist have so much of her own vision and know exactly what they want to say. She would say, 'I have this crazy idea for this song, check out this situation.' We would be talking, bugging out — three hours later, then comes the song."

"She had multiple producers in Sony Studios," Riddick adds. "She booked out the whole studio and she had the biggest and best producers in there. She would have us in one room, we would start collaborating with one producer, then she would go and start something else with another producer. We would bounce around to the different rooms and work with the different producers. It was definitely a factory type of process."

http://www.mtv.com/bands/b/beyonce/n...6/index2.jhtml

AHHA: When you sit down to collaborate with an artist, what is the first question you ask?

Makeba: Every situation is different. Sometimes I have a track and I write a song and just send it to a label. Other times, the artist and I sit down together and write. Somebody like Beyonce, because she knows exactly what she wants, it's not hard. We can be talking about a situation she's in and it’s really like talking because it's a real situation, and through that it'll just evolve into a song.

http://www.realrnb.com/forum/archive...p?t-12488.html

"I've never had more fun working with an artist," said Riddick, who now lives in Los Angeles. "It was like being 10 years old again. We were in the studio dancing, watching videos, having girl talk for hours until the early, early morning. It was awesome. Before we knew it, three weeks had gone by, and we had finished the album."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertai...,5677588.story

HB: Out of all the people you’ve worked with, who was your favorite?

I have fun with all the artists I work with.

Working with Beyonce is like writing songs at a slumber party with your cousin or at a family reunion while making up dance routines and having girl talk for hours. (Beyond Fun)

http://hellobeautiful.com/2010/03/11...akeba-riddick/

I was sitting on my bed one day wondering where my career was going when Max Gousse called me out of the blue. He had left Epic and was working for Matthew Knowles, Beyoncé's father, at Music World Entertainment. He told me . . . Beyoncé wanted to cut a song I had written with Rodney Jerkins about a year and a half earlier . Max said that Beyoncé wanted to meet me and write with me. She flew me to New York, and even as I was walking up to the door of the studio, I was thinking, "This isn't really happening, I'm going to wake up any minute."
I walked into the studio and met Beyoncé and her family. She was working on her B'Day album, had handpicked the producers and writers, and I was one of the writers. I cowrote seven songs with her and the other writers. We finished the album in three weeks and had so much fun doing it.
"Déjà Vu" was the song that got me in the door. It became the first single and was a number-one hit all around the world. The B'Day album also went to number one, and two other singles I had cowritten made it to the top five. It was amazing to finally see some A-list material coming out and to start making some money.

Q:When you write with an artist, is there a different dynamic?
There is a lot more leeway in that situation, because the artist is the one who will have to sing the song every night. So I'll ask them what they are thinking about, what they are going through. In Beyoncé's case, we're both girls and not too far apart in age. Sometimes we've been going through the same things and share a lot in common. Beyoncé and I would spend hours talking, and some of those thoughts would turn into songs.

http://www.berklee.edu/bt/224/coverstory.html

even 4 years later she talk beyonce like that.
so I doubt If beyonce is that vicious like some people make out it. she wouldn't mention beyonce.

[sadnews]

it's kinda funny considering beyonce is not those type that brag about her writings and how artist she is.
some people obsessed with beyonce in that way, they should go into other artists too. lol

she barely mention what she writes or produces her ideas. but just in general what she wanted to do.

oh she doesn't do nothing but..
irreplaceable's to the left, to the left in the middle was beyonce's input.
love on top's key change at the end was beyonce's input.


she got songwriter of the year by ascap after writing big hit songs like "Independent Women Pt. 1""Jumpin Jumpin" "Survivor" in 2001.
http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/aw...ongwriter.aspx

and they said she bought that lol. ascap is biggest writer union in US. with thousands memebers, including big names. how one earth she could bought that big union's award? when there's many many big name artists and writers there. it was in 2001, with DC debut in 97 and had big break out in 2000. I don't know why she can't buy grammy then. at this much bigger name and respect and career.

fun fact " their 30 Years of Songwriters of the Year list )
http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/aw...-the-year.aspx

and last I love that how haters forgot all those interviews and fact from producers saying she wrote those song.
pretend those thing never happened?

quick remind for haters who reading this thread.

Poke: “Columbia had the Charlie’s Angels soundtrack and they needed a record for the soundtrack. They started off as a regular version. They came in and were like, ‘Fix the ****ing record.’ So it was like ‘Independent Women Part 2’ is the real version.
“Beyoncé was in Hawaii doing a show with Destiny’s Child. Columbia didn’t want her to write the record, they were like, ‘No, she can’t write the record. We need someone to write it because she wrote the original.’

Columbia didn’t want Beyoncé to write the record, they were like, ‘No, she can’t write the record. We need someone to write it.’ We get on the phone and we’re like, ‘They don’t want you to write the record. But we know what you're capable so go ahead and write the record.' - Poke

“Me, Beyoncé, and [former senior executive vice president of Sony] Cory Rooney get on the phone and we’re like, ‘We're gonna tell you the lowdown, they don’t want you to write the record. But we know what you're capable so go ahead and write the record. Here’s the track, just knock it out.’
“We sent her the track, she knocked it out,

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/09...75122652598937

Anthony Dent 2011 interview (co-writer of survivor, only him and beyonce on the credit)
Q : what give you a inspiration for I'm a survivor? How did you came up with that "I'm a survivor"?
A: it was aggresive track. the music part of it was before the lyrics, so I didn't know the survivor.
I kinda did music as I want it. actually I want lil kim on it as aggresive rap song.
and I can't say exactly what was going in. I knew in my mind after the lyrics got to, but making music I want it to be aggresive track, as far as what I can say was going through my mind.
when she put the lyrics to it. it just inspires me more,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksOHrS-RqN4

[Hilly]

Originally posted by nuclear

Now we know why Deja vu always get paid dust on tour
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Mess
I don't remember her claiming she wrote it tbh, but I'm tired of this writing credits mess, I blame Matthew for this. It makes Bey look fake, when we all know she's talented.
But at this point, even if she did write all her songs, the haters would find another excuse to discredit her

[Lose My Breath]

I wondered how long it would be before that got posted

[Triton]

Deja Vu was **** and it got ignored deservingly so, it was 3rd rate copy of Crazy In Love, no wonder no one paid attention to it. Irreplaceable and Upgrade U were the true gems.

Anyways, Bey wont care, the bitch plays by the rules, any claims people charge will fail, this isn't "Blurred Lines"

Moving on......

[Lose My Breath]

Why do people forget that Beyonce co-produced LOT and Countdown with Shea Taylor? Two of her best songs she produced

[Hilly]

Originally posted by Lose My Breath

Why do people forget that Beyonce co-produced LOT and Countdown with Shea Taylor? Two of her best songs she produced

Because it's too positive towards her

[Iman]

Originally posted by Triton

Deja Vu was **** and it got ignored deservingly so, it was 3rd rate copy of Crazy In Love, no wonder no one paid attention to it. Irreplaceable and Upgrade U were the true gems.

this, but i love the video so much. one of her best

Anyways, Bey wont care, the bitch plays by the rules, any claims people charge will fail, this isn't "Blurred Lines"

agreed.

[qurl]

Originally posted by Lose My Breath

Why do people forget that Beyonce co-produced LOT and Countdown with Shea Taylor? Two of her best songs she produced

AS I WAS SAYING in that damn other thread, it's completely obvious (well to me and probably to the rest of us as fans of her) that she was so much more directly involved with the making of 4 and Self-Titled. You can hear like Beyoncé-isms or just her general personality / presence oozing out of those songs so much more than you can any of her other work

what a coincidence they happen to be her best albums, followed closely by B'Day which she has been proven to have had involvement with but whatever makes it easier for them to shade her, I thank God everyday that I'm woke!

[simon]

Yall take ATRL too seriously in regards to hate. People hate Beyonce so these threads are done out of angst. Some Sport fanatics will tell you a million reasons why Lebron sucks. But do you care? No because he is great and regarded as so. Beyoncé is similar.