Beyoncé’s Songwriting Scandals: How Much of Her Music Does She ACTUALLY Write? | BFTV

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[deyoncew]

People need to understand that songwriting goes beyond penning lyrics. Beyoncé's strength lies in writing melodies and arranging harmonies and backgrounds which, as Ne-Yo stressed, is writing.

[nataliemauzone]

It's OK to have many writers but NOT OK to lie about being a sole writer of songs you didn't write. That is all...

[CouLands]

Kelly and Michelle are true ride or dies and they don’t get nearly enough credit for that

[ambera]

beyoncé can get credit for writing 3 words yet future was removed from drunk in love entirely?? that’s bizarre

[bookiebear]

You forgot "if I were a boy"
She literally took that from an unknown artist off the internet
She didn't change anything either
I listened to the one on the internet when all that happened
I remember this when in highschool
She ended up giving the young lady her credits because everyone got on her about it
I believe she blamed it on her dad

[nameisamine]

It sucks that when writers stand up for themselves they risk blackballing themselves or compromising business relationships. There’s such a power imbalance between the ‘superstar celebrities’ and the jobbing songwriters.

It’s also annoying that people can come in change two words and get a writing credit and share a split of the publishing profits in perpetuity. Then go to the media acting like they wrote the song, totally erasing your contributions.🙄

Edit: I know there are also star writers/producers who aren’t gonna be intimidated. Like nobody’s gonna boss around a Max Martin or Ryan Tedder, Diane Warren and Linda Perry weren’t to be messed with in their prime.

[McQueenPress]

Michael and Whitney never implied that they wrote a song that someone else wrote. Neither did they attempt to take credit for the creative work of others. In fact, with Michael, we learned when his demos from Off the Wall and Thriller were released, we learned that he deserved far greater credit for production than he received.

[Bless.Mandyy]

I’m noticing a pattern in Kelly Rowland. I need Kelly Rowland to do a documentary or something. I wonder if she was OBLIGATED to praise Beyonce and downplay herself, to always be the shadow and not aim for anything above Beyoncé. I was always confused on why she didn’t do more.

[rl]

Beyonce is a great entertainer, but she's no Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson. The reason why no one talk about Rhianna regarding not writing her own music is because Rhianna doesn't go around taking other people's credit and saying she wrote this and that song. If Beyonce didn't go around doing that there would be no video. Guys stop being so loyal and blind to these celebrities you don't know this people.

[tired]

using mj was a bad idea. cause he wrote some of his biggest hits 😭 like bj, beat it, dstyge, dirty diana, the way u make me feel . they all topped the charts. he is a SONGWRITER.

[deshanaewilliams]

People don't understand that you have to include everyone. Even the people in the songs you sample

[xkeepcalmandsmilex]

I remember the story about her saying she came up with bootylicious after hearing the guitar riff on the plane but years later the writer and producer said that the demo was mostly done by the time it got to bey and when he confronted Matthew about it, Matthew told him that the fans don’t want to hear about the behind the scenes team making a song but about the idea of their favorite artist coming up with something to relate to them because that’s more marketable. I guess that’s just how the business works.

[killerqueen]

This is literally just the tip of the ice berg with Beyonce taking credit for songs she didn't write. Two songwriters did an interview recently saying they wrote Bow Down for Rihanna and it ended up with Beyonce. Meanwhile Bey told us she wrote the song in an interview saying she "had a chant in her head" that day and came up with the concept and lyrics. She was sued for Survivor by the ACTUAL writers, settled out of court. Was sued for Baby Boy. Claimed to write Emotion (a cover by the bee gees) and Silent Night. That I'm Still Here song is the only song she has NO WRITING CREDITS on cause Diane Warren refused to be taken advantage of. And the list goes on and on...

[Alan-ugnl]

It's clear Beyoncé does participate in the writing process of her songs however she often puts her foot in her mouth when speaking about it. I recall when Destiny's Child was on TRL and she said she wrote the song "Emotions" from the Survivor album. The song was a remake of The Bee Gees song and even the host looked at her crazy. Even in this video there were several contradictions in her statements about writing certain material. Let's also consider that some of these songwriting scandals are also tied to scandals with her stealing ideas and concepts for music videos (i.e. Countdown, Single Ladies, etc.) Her stans seem to think that just because Beyoncé does it and it becomes a hit that ethics don't matter.

[euphoriaissleepy]

As a Beyhive myself, I can say that Matthew clearly tried to make Beyoncé seem like a triple threat. His marketing strategy was smart and props to him for that. But the rest of the Beyhive needs to understand that Beyoncé isn’t a strong writer, it’s okay to have a lot of songwriters on your song as long as you give the writers their credits (Something Beyoncé doesn’t always do) Great Video.

[deontaer]

The way the other 3 girls constantly praised Beyoncé in every interview while she stared them down was so creepy to me. If any of them gave anyone else credit for something, you can see her rolling her eyes or making shady facial expressions. You can tell she treated the other members like crap.

[Jamaal.R.]

It’s be cool to see a video about Mariah Carey’s writing process. She’s credited as a sole writer or one of few on many of her albums. The journey of a song has always intrigued me!

[ben_jamin]

I think Beyonce is super talented but has transformed into a huge entity that obviously has a massive group of creatives working behind her

[MyAccountForCommenting]

The biggest song on Dreamgirls is that "I am telling you" song. I felt like they added "Listen" so Beyoncé could have a big song.

[zuriogletree]

Beyonce is good at arranging music, but not lyrics. She couldn’t even write for other artist that wanted her to write for their album. I like Beyonce, but I don’t like bullsh*t and stealing creativity from other people and calling it yours. be fair and be honest. Cause if someone did it to her she would sued