Diane Warren curious how can there be 24 writers on a song

[Teletubby 90,254]

 

Edited August 2, 2022 by Teletubby

[emili0 650]

“This isn’t meant as shade,” but uses the eye-roll emoji……?

[River 75,267]

There could only be 24 writers in the room but only 1 takes the credit and it's me.

Edited August 1, 2022 by River

[monketsharona 40,392]

Honestly I'm curious too 

[Anderson123 26,305]

2 minutes ago, River said:

There could only be 24 writers in the room but only 1 takes the credit and it's me.

There can be a 100 people in a room and 99 wrote a song but it only takes one word for you to change to get writing credit too.

[androiduser 6,523]

well, if everyone is properly credited for the samples, it's the right thing to do... if someone samples her song one day, she will be one of the 24 writers as welll

[Admin 23,611]

1 hour ago, monketsharona said:

Honestly I'm curious too 

A song can have a lot of writers if 1) it’s a collaboration 2) it samples something 3) it has multiple producers & probably other factors.

“Rain On Me” has 12 writers, “Sine From Above” has 15 writers. Actually Chromatica overall is a great example of this because Gaga explicitly spoke about how every song went through multiple producers and writers who all added something to it. I always thought it was a very interesting approach, especially for pop music. 

[River 75,267]

Just now, Anderson123 said:

There can be a 100 people in a room and 99 wrote a song but it only takes one word for you to change to get writing credit too.

I wrote "oh baby"

[River 75,267]

But honestly, a song can have 2-3 samples or more and that brings the writers list to be more than 10 easily.

If it's a collab and the collaborator is not writing their own lyrics so they are bringing their own team to add the additional verses.

[Guillaume Hamon 4,777]

I mean it rises quickly but 24 seems like a lot indeed. 

[NATAH 22,411]

24 is a lot tho

[Kimmo 68,233]

7 minutes ago, Admin said:

A song can have a lot of writers if 1) it’s a collaboration 2) if it samples something 3) if it has multiple producers & probably other factors.

“Rain On Me” has 12 writers, “Sine From Above” has 15 writers.

Not Admin clocking Diane Warren…

 

[Cello 40,396]

has she heard of sampling

[Frank Potion 43,989]

Samples and multiple writers. It’s not that hard but Diane’s old ass wanted to get cute I guess.

How do you get nominated 15 times for a Grammy and only win once? Let’s talk about THAT, Diane. 

[Admin 23,611]

3 minutes ago, Kimmo said:

Not Admin clocking Diane Warren…

 

I don’t know why she’s doing this. She’s one of the greatest pop songwriters in history and she doesn’t need to prove anything. And having been in the business for decades, she knows EXACTLY how there can be so many writers on a song lol