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re: Beato further roasts the NYT for their dumb Top 30 Songwriter list
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:52 am to Ace Midnight
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:52 am to Ace Midnight
quote:gonna disagree
Stephen Merritt? No.
i’m pretty sure he’s on the list only because he’s gay, but he is a brilliant songwriter - i would definitely put him in the top 30
ETA: gives me an opportunity to repost this YooToobs classic:
This post was edited on 5/14/26 at 11:42 am
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 1:52 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:My argument is that Bad Bunny isn't even good...for what he is!
There are literally hundreds of better living American songwriters than Bad Bunny.
I understand the mindset of waiting to avoid a "rockism" bias. I agree that not everything has to be white male singer/songwriter genre, and to make it so, probably necessarily excludes a lot of people.
However, I won't consider ANYONE to be on such a list if they aren't writing actual music. If they are just setting lyrics to pre-programmed beats, that does not count.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 11:07 am to Ace Midnight
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Neil Young born in Canada but is an American citizen now.
It's dual citizenship, though, and he's moved back to Canada. And had this to say a few months ago:
“Although I have lived in the United States for most of my life, and recently became a citizen of the U.S.A., I am a Canadian and always will be" - Neil Young
He's easily a top 10 song writer, and if he were saying that he considers himself to be American then I'd put him on the list. But with this comment it's hard to justify classifying him as an American.
ETA: Really fun video by Beato. The fact that the NYT thought releasing their video was a good idea shows just how out of touch that culture is.
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 11:10 am
Posted on 5/16/26 at 8:09 pm to hogcard1964
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Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny, Missy Elliot, Jay Z, Outkast, Romeo Santos, Mariah Carey and Young Thug>Billy Joel, Jimmy Webb, John Hiatt and James Taylor
Add Henley and Fogerty to the second part of that list
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 5/17/26 at 1:44 pm to MKP2004
I agree
Posted on 5/17/26 at 2:40 pm to hogcard1964
Actually H-D-H do not belong on the list because it is a list of living American songwriters and Dozier died a couple of years ago.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 2:48 pm to Ace Midnight
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Like "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" bad.
But not quite "Rolling Stone Top Guitarists" bad
That was perhaps the worst ranking list in the history of ranking lists.
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