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Originally posted by GotSkill
I really do wonder what the results would be like if Katy did an acoustic album with minimal cowrites and Taylor did another Red with more cowrites and more generic songs. Both of them have the ability definitely.
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Acoustic doesn't mean good. If she made an acoustic album, that won't change anything about her songwriting. Acoustic has to do with the production. And even if Taylor did another Red, but with more cowrites, that still wouldn't change anything because Taylor's co-writes are mostly written by Taylor with somebody else adding a few words. Liz Rose, Taylor's longtime collaborator, has said that writing with Taylor is like editing. She comes to her with a lot of lyrics and they change some parts, choose the verses/lines to make the final form of the song, cut some parts, etc. She doesn't go to a songwriter to write a song from scratch. Even Ed Sheeran has said in an interview that she came to him with "90% of the song [Everything Has Changed] done".