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TheGoldenEel posted...

...except she writes all her songs

like there are some pop musicians you could argue this about--probably less than you think though--but Taylor Swift is definitely not one of them. I'm not even a big fan or anything, it's just a dumb thing to denigrate her for. And tbh it's the kind of criticism you see almost exclusively directed at women pop stars. Like no one shits on Michael Jackson for having done the exact same thing

here are the credits for a devin townsend "solo" album

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1ec9ede5.png

She writes some, or all of her songs, if you overlook all the cowriters. Very little of her music appears to be written solely by her. Also, this applies to ALL pop artists, basically, I don't care that she's a female artist. I enjoy a fair amount of female fronted music, including pop - but you'll never catch me trying to argue that they write all their music or anything when they don't.

In regards to Devin Townsend, he already has more credit, even in that pile of stuff than Swift - but we also already know Devin Townsend is an amazing musician, songwriter, and just all-around dude, cuz he's been killing it across multiple bands for decades - and again, I'd still have my complaints about his solo stuff, which I don't like nearly as much as his bands.

But, I'll take a band w/ 3-5 people, who handle 95% of everything themselves, who then get it professionally mixed, over the pop machine any day.