Artists caught lying about songwriting credits

[evalionisameme 13,889]

Just for fun and shady mess 

hope the mods don’t lock this- no hate to any artists intended- just to shine a light on the actual main writers or people who should be credited.

 

here’s my contribution as stolen by someone on Reddit:

Rihanna has a writing credit on same old mistakes- a cover 💀

When Bright, who also co-wrote Justin Bieber’s hit “Somebody To Love”, is asked to explain how Bieber got songwriting credit for that song (as it was originally written for Usher), Bright has no answer. “Umm… How did he get a writing credit on it?… That’s an interesting question. I don’t know.”

Beyoncé claimed on TRL she wrote Emotions. The song is actually a Bee Gees cover.

• Claimed to have written Survivor. Songwriters sued, settled out of court.

• Claimed to have written Bow Down, when the demo was near finished when she got the song. It was originally meant to go to Rihanna

• Claimed to have written Bootylicious after hearing the guitar riff somewhere. The demo was actually near complete when it got to Destiny’s Child. When the writers went to her father for explanation, they were told the public prefers to hear that their favorite artist is the one writing their hits.

• Claimed to have written Irreplaceable. Ne-Yo’s demo is near identical to the finished song. After receiving backlash for calling her out, he gave her credit for harmonising on the song.

• Claimed to have written Smash Into You. The song is actually a cover of the song Smack Into You by Jon McLaughlin.

• The melody of Drunk In Love was done by Future and the demo was sent to Beyoncé. He didn’t hear anything back and wasn’t told the song would end up on her self-titled album. He didn’t receive writing credits for the song.

 

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4 minutes ago, evalionisameme said:

Just for fun and shady mess 

hope the mods don’t lock this- no hate to any artists intended- just to shine a light on the actual main writers or people who should be credited.

 

here’s my contribution as stolen by someone on Reddit:

Rihanna has a writing credit on same old mistakes- a cover 💀

When Bright, who also co-wrote Justin Bieber’s hit “Somebody To Love”, is asked to explain how Bieber got songwriting credit for that song (as it was originally written for Usher), Bright has no answer. “Umm… How did he get a writing credit on it?… That’s an interesting question. I don’t know.”

Beyoncé claimed on TRL she wrote Emotions. The song is actually a Bee Gees cover.

• Claimed to have written Survivor. Songwriters sued, settled out of court.

• Claimed to have written Bow Down, when the demo was near finished when she got the song. It was originally meant to go to Rihanna

• Claimed to have written Bootylicious after hearing the guitar riff somewhere. The demo was actually near complete when it got to Destiny’s Child. When the writers went to her father for explanation, they were told the public prefers to hear that their favorite artist is the one writing their hits.

• Claimed to have written Irreplaceable. Ne-Yo’s demo is near identical to the finished song. After receiving backlash for calling her out, he gave her credit for harmonising on the song.

• Claimed to have written Smash Into You. The song is actually a cover of the song Smack Into You by Jon McLaughlin.

• The melody of Drunk In Love was done by Future and the demo was sent to Beyoncé. He didn’t hear anything back and wasn’t told the song would end up on her self-titled album. He didn’t receive writing credits for the song.

 

Stop not queen bey 

[Lindsay Lohan 10,458]

First ones that come to mind are:

Sky Ferreira and Everything is Embarrassing (She claimed she re-wrote it but then the original demo by Dev Hynes mysteriously leaked)

Avril Lavigne and Sk8er Boi (The actual writer of the song did a whole expose on his YouTube channel and said her only contribution to that song was changing the title from "Skater Boy" to "Sk8er Boi" )

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5 minutes ago, williamprb said:

Stop not queen bey 

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Just now, Lindsay Lohan said:

First ones that come to mind are:

Sky Ferreira and Everything is Embarrassing (She claimed she re-wrote it but then the original demo by Dev Hynes mysteriously leaked)

Avril Lavigne and Sk8er Boi (The actual writer of the song did a whole expose on his YouTube channel and said her only contribution to that song was changing the title from "Skater Boy" to "Sk8er Boi" )

All these avril lavigne was a poser allegations are sad to me 

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3 minutes ago, williamprb said:

All these avril lavigne was a poser allegations are sad to me 

Her debut is one of the greatest albums ever! 

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17 minutes ago, Lindsay Lohan said:

Sky Ferreira and Everything is Embarrassing (She claimed she re-wrote it but then the original demo by Dev Hynes mysteriously leaked)

I remember reading about this when I got into sky ferreira - apparently he had similar crediting issues happen with Solange too    But I listened to his demo and I like it tbh tho sky's vers. is one of my favorite songs

 

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_subject_to_plagiarism_disputes

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sky ferreira 

[evalionisameme 13,889]

47 minutes ago, Lindsay Lohan said:

First ones that come to mind are:

Sky Ferreira and Everything is Embarrassing (She claimed she re-wrote it but then the original demo by Dev Hynes mysteriously leaked)

Avril Lavigne and Sk8er Boi (The actual writer of the song did a whole expose on his YouTube channel and said her only contribution to that song was changing the title from "Skater Boy" to "Sk8er Boi" )

I can actually add to some of the Avril stuff I believe- it’s very likely that anything on let go with the matrix in the title is very mildly written by avril e.g. as quoted by them she wrote a few melodies and words on their songs here and there. Her contributions were little on their songs to say the least.

 

Cliff who I think may be the YouTube guy was her ex manager and didn’t write any of sk8er Boi- he’s very delusional and obsessed till this day. Breakaway is only a songwriting credit very likely because she talked about her life to the writers and they used it for the songs lyrics-not sure why she claims she outright wrote that one.

[evalionisameme 13,889]

There’s a fight going on between madison love and Ava max currently with these credits being suggested that Ava writes very little.

 

Alone, Pt 2 - 5%

Anyone but You - 10%
BST - 16.67%
Belladonna - 33.34%
Born to the Night - 5%
Call Me Tonight - 5%
Christmas Without You - 5.02%
Clap Your Hands - 22.50%
Freaking Me Out - 2%
H.E.A.V.E.N. - 50%
Head & Heart (Demo) - 2%
Into Your Arms - 25%
Kings & Queens - 6.25%
Let It Be Me - 15%
Move - 25%
My Head & My Heart - 5%
My Way - 10%
Naked - 10%
Not Your Barbie Girl - 23.34%
OMG - 7.51%
On Somebody - 10%
Rumors - 7%
Salt - 2.50%
Slippin - 10%
So Am I - 7.50%
Sweet but Psycho - 10%
Take Away the Pain - 10%
Take You to Hell - 10%
Tattoo - 18%
Torn - 1.50%
Who's Laughing Now - 6%
Wild Thing - 3%

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1 hour ago, evalionisameme said:

Beyoncé claimed on TRL she wrote Emotions. The song is actually a Bee Gees cover.

• Claimed to have written Survivor. Songwriters sued, settled out of court.

• Claimed to have written Bow Down, when the demo was near finished when she got the song. It was originally meant to go to Rihanna

• Claimed to have written Bootylicious after hearing the guitar riff somewhere. The demo was actually near complete when it got to Destiny’s Child. When the writers went to her father for explanation, they were told the public prefers to hear that their favorite artist is the one writing their hits.

• Claimed to have written Irreplaceable. Ne-Yo’s demo is near identical to the finished song. After receiving backlash for calling her out, he gave her credit for harmonising on the song.

• Claimed to have written Smash Into You. The song is actually a cover of the song Smack Into You by Jon McLaughlin.

• The melody of Drunk In Love was done by Future and the demo was sent to Beyoncé. He didn’t hear anything back and wasn’t told the song would end up on her self-titled album. He didn’t receive writing credits for the song.

yikes  it’s safe to say beyonce isn’t a huge writer 

 

come to think of it, all the artists i rlly like and feel connected to their music are big songwriters (meaning they don’t just write like 4 words and have other writers write the rest)

lana, taylor, hozier…i just really appreciate that in an artist. 

i like some of ari’s songs for example but i cant see myself “stanning” her music because to me being the main writer is so integral, and of course being a good writer lol. 

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When a mainstream pop singer releases a "personal" album when in reality it's all written by 5 men and produced by some mega producer

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Rihanna is notorious. 
 

Sza’s album Ctrl originally revolved around her song ‘LouAnne Johnson’, she’s stated that Ctrl would have been complete a year earlier if she still had the song (and I think it even had a MV). Then Rihanna struck 

 

Sza went to a writing camp for Anti but failed to write anything that she thought was of any worth, so she played LouAnne Johnson just to see how they liked it. After hearing it, they were very insistent and she was pressured into giving it up - she’s said since that it devastated her. The song became ‘Consideration’ and Rih ended up with writing credits on it, even though it was already a complete song ready for release. 

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28 minutes ago, evalionisameme said:

There’s a fight going on between madison love and Ava max currently with these credits being suggested that Ava writes very little.

 

Alone, Pt 2 - 5%

Anyone but You - 10%
BST - 16.67%
Belladonna - 33.34%
Born to the Night - 5%
Call Me Tonight - 5%
Christmas Without You - 5.02%
Clap Your Hands - 22.50%
Freaking Me Out - 2%
H.E.A.V.E.N. - 50%
Head & Heart (Demo) - 2%
Into Your Arms - 25%
Kings & Queens - 6.25%
Let It Be Me - 15%
Move - 25%
My Head & My Heart - 5%
My Way - 10%
Naked - 10%
Not Your Barbie Girl - 23.34%
OMG - 7.51%
On Somebody - 10%
Rumors - 7%
Salt - 2.50%
Slippin - 10%
So Am I - 7.50%
Sweet but Psycho - 10%
Take Away the Pain - 10%
Take You to Hell - 10%
Tattoo - 18%
Torn - 1.50%
Who's Laughing Now - 6%
Wild Thing - 3%

I've always known that Ava is a huge fucking industry plant.

 

I also love Beyoncé but I am very much aware of the fact that she can't write a song if her life depended on it.

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I remember there was a case with John Lennon's Imagine where Yoko claimed that she wrote that song actually?

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21 minutes ago, cherrytropico said:

yikes  it’s safe to say beyonce isn’t a huge writer 

 

come to think of it, all the artists i rlly like and feel connected to their music are big songwriters (meaning they don’t just write like 4 words and have other writers write the rest)

lana, taylor, hozier…i just really appreciate that in an artist. 

i like some of ari’s songs for example but i cant see myself “stanning” her music because to me being the main writer is so integral, and of course being a good writer lol. 

same... it's why I don't really like a lot of mainstream artists (other than a few songs obviously pop music is fun) but it just seems so unauthentic and manufactured and soulless... the only mainstream artist I can get behind is Mariah Carey and it's cause she writes her stuff and you can tell she does... it isn't just her name smashed between 8 other songwriters in the credits 

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Just now, Honeytrails said:

same... it's why I don't really like a lot of mainstream artists (other than a few songs obviously pop music is fun) but it just seems so unauthentic and manufactured and soulless... the only mainstream artist I can get behind is Mariah Carey and it's cause she writes her stuff and you can tell she does... it isn't just her name smashed between 8 other songwriters in the credits 

I will give props to Taylor too despite me not being a fan of her for being someone is clearly at the forefront for writing- for other women in music it seems quite limited sadly for big stars to do both in actuality- the only other big popstar I can name who is the main writer currently would be charli xcx 

Love mimi

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3 minutes ago, evalionisameme said:

I will give props to Taylor too despite me not being a fan of her for being someone is clearly at the forefront for writing- for other women in music it seems quite limited sadly for big stars to do both in actuality- the only other big popstar I can name who is the main writer currently would be charli xcx 

her too... not a fan either but some of her songs are fun and have a soul especially the slower stuff off of red... even though you can easily tell when her stuff starts to sound structured with a formula to be a radio hit at least she's the one doing it

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1 hour ago, 111 said:

sky ferreira 

of course ur here lol