JPF Home Page Forums General Messages Songwriter Message Forum Clive Davis urges singers to stop writing songs

Writing a song, singing, and playing an instrument are three (largely) unrelated skills. By having one person do all three, or even two of the three, you are almost always going to have a lower quality product than if the song was done by collaboration. Sure, there are some really gifted folks that can do all three - or even two of the three. But I submit that this number is much smaller than the number of major artists out there.

Given that the model of recording songs written by others seems to have fallen by the wayside, this suggests to me that quality is not the chief driving force in producing a song.

Scott