re: Do you respect artists who don’t write their own songs?

That just flew straight over your head. C’mon man this isn’t hard to figure out. The point I am making is that everyone acts like because someone else writes some other solo artist or bands songs for them then that artist or band is low grade and they suck. That just isn’t true. That band still has to take those songs and make them relevant and popular or they do not have a career. If any artist or band can’t produce and preform hit songs that people like then it doesn’t matter if those folks wrote the songs themselves or not no label will sign them or they will drop them if already signed. It’s just that simple.

Now a baseball player must preform at a high level and achieve a high level of success because he is in the same type of results based business as the people in the music business mentioned above. People hear of a players like Barry Bonds or Mark Mac and they automatically think that those guys had to take PED’s to achieve the success they did. That simply isn’t true. Just having power and strength to hit a ball a long way isn’t enough. Those guys still had to stand in the batters box and look in a 95 to 100 mph fastball and using the correct form and technique make contact with the ball. None of that has anything to do with PED’s. That part of their game was legit and a raw God given talent that they practiced and sharpened over time. The shame of it is both those guys would have probably still set records without PED’s. They might have hit a ball 410 ft instead of 430 ft but if it was investigated most of those HR’s would have still been HR’s. The PED’s probably helped with injuries more than power most likely anyway. They still had to have the talent and skills to hit the ball though PED’s or no PED’s.

The bottom line in what I’m saying is everyone acts like both the folks in the music business or a baseball player on PED’s are somehow no good or just average and that simply just isn’t true. Both examples still have to produce because sooner or later they all will lose their contracts and careers. If all it takes to become Rich and famous and enjoy a lot of success in the music industry or MLB is someone writing songs for you or shooting up on roids then the country would be full of musicians and pro baseball players making millions.