I think songwriting credits can be meaningless, at times.
One example:
"Love Me Tender" -- Elvis Presley
The principal writer of the lyrics was Ken Darby....[but] credited to [Elvis] Presley and Darby's wife Vera Matson. Presley received co-songwriting credit due to his Hill & Range publishing deal which demanded songwriters concede 50 percent of the credit of their song if they wanted Presley to record it; Presley had songwriting input on only a very small number of the many songs he recorded[3] When asked why he credited his wife as co-songwriter along with Presley, Darby responded, "Because she didn't write it either."
P.S., how do we even know if (all of) that is even true?...
Also, the other day I watched the movie "Song to Song." Supposedly the Cabal reveals what they do through various forms of artistic expression. Spoiler alert: In the film a producer stole Ryan Gosling's character's songs he wrote, copyrighting them in his own name alone. When confronted the producer basically said (to paraphrase) "So? What are going to do about it? There are a lot of good songwriters, yours are not special...etc." The Gosling character ended up quitting music.
Also I read somewhere that think tanks like Tavistock sometimes contribute to song lyrics. And while I know George Webb is not a valid source, he laughingly mentioned that someone probably didn't write their book, that it was probably ghostwritten by someone in the CIA. That had never entered my mind that that happens, but who knows.
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I think songwriting credits can be meaningless, at times.
One example:
"Love Me Tender" -- Elvis Presley
P.S., how do we even know if (all of) that is even true?...
Also, the other day I watched the movie "Song to Song." Supposedly the Cabal reveals what they do through various forms of artistic expression. Spoiler alert: In the film a producer stole Ryan Gosling's character's songs he wrote, copyrighting them in his own name alone. When confronted the producer basically said (to paraphrase) "So? What are going to do about it? There are a lot of good songwriters, yours are not special...etc." The Gosling character ended up quitting music.
Also I read somewhere that think tanks like Tavistock sometimes contribute to song lyrics. And while I know George Webb is not a valid source, he laughingly mentioned that someone probably didn't write their book, that it was probably ghostwritten by someone in the CIA. That had never entered my mind that that happens, but who knows.