Rolling Stone's Top 100 Songwriters Of All Time Featuring Bullsh*t.

[QueenGadonna 298]

The Queen of Music (it's a fact. Look it the f*ck up) does not appreciate her snub from this list.

 

What are you talking about? Madonna IS on the list.

 

 

 

 

[Monster2015 1,117]

As long as Elvis Presley is no where near this list, I'm happy. And where the hell is Kimbra? Like I know she isn't commercially out there but she just got an award for the international songwriting award in 2015. Whaaaat?! 

[Caesium 6,022]

What are you talking about? Madonna IS on the list.

Madonna was a good writer (up until 2005). How much help did she have though? Has she ever even written and produced a song entirely by herself? Meanwhile Kate has written and produced every album since her fourth completely by herself, including Hounds of Love, widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of ALL time. Madonna's music may be more commercially accessible but Kate's lyrics and music are a surrealistic journey covering so many topics no one has ever dared to include in songs. Transforming classic literature into successful, iconic pop songs. Who else but the Queen? They're both good artists but Kate is just on another level 

Some free music education for you  

 

[Klou 2,414]

If I were Gaga I definitely would never do that magazine any favors ever again.

[QueenGadonna 298]

Madonna was a good writer (up until 2005). How much help did she have though? Has she ever even written and produced a song entirely by herself? Meanwhile Kate has written and produced every album since her fourth completely by herself, including Hounds of Love, widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of ALL time. Madonna's music may be more commercially accessible but Kate's lyrics and music are a surrealistic journey covering so many topics no one has ever dared to include in songs. Transforming classic literature into successful, iconic pop songs. Who else but the Queen? They're both good artists but Kate is just on another level 

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Of couse Kate is Iconic! She should be in the top 10 in my opinion. But I think Madonna deserve to be on the list because of albums like Like a Prayer, Ray of Light and the VERY underrated American Life.

[Angel Down 2,807]

I wonder how didn't they put Rihanna or Beyonce... This list is bull****

[craig 680]

I guess they held some of the ARTPOP songs against Gaga, but gave Taylor a pass for writing WANEGBT.

[craig 680]

Gaga still has a long way to go when it comes to widespread recognition of her songwriting talent. I'm not surprised that she's not on the list.

The most offensive omission in my opinion is Mariah Carey. Her hits are iconic, and the only ORIGINAL hit she didn't co-write (as far as I know) was "When You Believe."

Mariah songs are generic love ballads. You could interchange a 90's Mariah, Whitney, and Toni Braxton hit song and nobody would bat an eye at lyrics seeming uncharacteristic.

Gaga, Katy, and Taylor show much more individuality as songwriters.

[freebit 6,240]

So many glaring omissions as pointed out in this thread, and of course Bob Dylan would be at number one. Predictable. 

[venusian 4,686]

eminem is a great songwriter 

hes also homophobic, transphobic, and s-xist

[venusian 4,686]

this article is trash

[KindaTrashy 163]

Oh I'm glad Billie Joe Armstrong got a mention. 

MJ should've been WAAAAYYYYY further up the list. 

The fact that Gaga isn't on the list at all is a total ****ing joke.

[j92184 483]

Someone tell them it's not April 1st

[StrawberryBlond 14,881]

On the one hand, it's good they only listed those who are actually songwriters in the sense that the majority of their work is written almost entirely by them. Writing a line or two with a whole bunch of professional songwriters to help you is not songwriting by any stretch and that's why the likes of Britney, Rihanna and Beyonce aren't there (finally a publication that doesn't kiss up to her). But on the other hand, some of the actual songwriters they feature aren't much better. Yes, Max Martin is a great generic pop songwriter but on the list of greatest 100 writers of all time? Out of the tiny selection of pop writers on this list, the only one I agree with is Benny & Bjorn from Abba and maybe Madonna at a push. The rest are debatable. Reading that line about Taylor: "She had too many good songs to fit into a tour setlist at the age of just 21," I felt the urge to pour a glass of something just so I could drop it. See what I mean when I say that I think she pays people to say good stuff about her? By the time she was 21, she had only released her debut, Fearless and Speak Now. Over her whole career, maybe that statement would be a bit more credible, but after those boring albums that all sounded the same? Give me a break. I've heard lyrics by so many artists that have moved me to tears and so many on this list could barely alter my expression.

I notice too that being over 40 certainly helps your inclusion on this list. Very little praise of the innovative new crowd. We need to stop raising up McCartney as the be all and end all of music. It means there's nothing to strive toward if we constantly keep comparing everyone to the same old names.

I wonder how didn't they put Rihanna or Beyonce... This list is bull****

Because it's a list of the best songwriters, not singers. Beyonce is a co-writer on basically all her songs, so if Rolling Stone isn't praising her, despite all her success and Grammys, it really must be true - she just claims writing credit for stuff she doesn't create. It's not speculation, there's concrete evidence for it, of which I've presented many a time.

[XoXoJoanneGaga 629]

As far as females go, Fiona Apple and Kate Bush are obvious snubs. And no, Gaga is not a top 100 songwriter of all time, that's ridiculous. Neither is Taylor Swift. 

hes also homophobic, transphobic, and s-xist

I don't think he is, but even if he was that would be irrespective of his songwriting abilities. John Lennon was a wife-beater and mentally abusive towards his son yet he's at #3. Judge the art not the artist etc...