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Originally posted by Walley
These are already published, and especially well known, songs though. You can't just do some re-arranging to an already published song and get a credit. However, if the song still isn't finished, still a demo, etc., adding different arrangements and creating the melody, or even just changing two or three words, DOES warrant a credit because the artist helped CREATE and COMPOSE that OFFICAL track. Beyoncé has never simply covered a song and gotten writing credit for it. She composed lyrics for Resentment and Still In Love (Kissing You), so she deserved credit for those. She did re-arranging for her covers for Fever, So Amazing, and Wishing on A Star and didn't get any writing credit. Stop trying to act like Beyoncé is this horrible thief just so you can justify your dislike for her.
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Creating melody yes, because it is songwriting, but arranging vocals and harmonies isnt. Those are two different things.
You probably dont understand one important thing - every singer who is offered an original song that was created by pro songwriters for him and hasnt been officially released has to arrange vocals to the melody, to fit his/her singing style, and often makes minor changes to it, I think even such people like Rihanna or Britney had to if there wasnt a person who sang it to them. Yet, most artists arent taking credit for that. And those rare exceptions of "artists" who do are getting cheap, undeserved credits for a thing every great singer like Ella Fitzgerald or Whitney and so on took as a regular part of being the interpreter of the song, without a songwriting credit demand, and rightly so.
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Originally posted by BYoncé
It seems strange that idiots ignore other artists credits in that field despite it being obvious. Do you think Mariah Carey got a song writing credit on Silent Night because she wrote a complex new god praising verse? NO she got a credit because she, like Beyoncé, is a vocal goddess and rearranged the song and added new vocal elements to it
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Lol
I just checked it and Mariah Carey doesnt have a songwriting credit on Silent Night. She has a production credit, and those are, again, two very different things. Its important to note that most people who do various song/sound arrangements today are getting production credits for their work, not songwriting credits.
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