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Originally posted by TheLastChord
Agreed. Gaga is not that good writing songs. However, she has had some good moments with things like Just Dance, Speechless, The Edge of Glory & Dope(it's still kind of weird)
I think she should definitely have a team of writers around her structuring her ideas and pitching her some as well. For example, Sex Dreams & Manicure could have been way better and actually single material if they had been better structured. The chorus in venus is very good, very gay but very good, but the rest of a song is an utter mess.
Although I agree that she should feel proud to write most of her material in an industry full of writing camps, there's no shame in doing that either. Some of the best albums from Michael and Madonna had a lot of material where their names are no where to be seen in the writing credits.
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I disagree. I feel that most of her writing is average to above average, but she tends to throw in junk to make it "Gaga" and that throws off the feel of the writing. She's a natural at writing pop material, the amount of songs she has that are well above average are more so than the amount of songs she has that are below average, or just down right crap. She did ask for help on this album as far as co-writing goes so maybe we will see a lyrical difference. I just hope she refrains from using a monotonous like Sexxx Dreams.
Writing camps are a no-go in my opinion. They usually come up with equal to or worse than what Gaga comes up with and the credits are so disbursed that you wonder if 10 or so people really DID come up with whatever chorus they wrote. Those are only good for those artists that seek demos to record over.