August 25, 2017
This foreign born former A+ list singer is altering history again. I love when singers who get songwriting credits then say what inspired the song when they know very well they just bought it from a writer and paid them enough to give up any credit or to mention to anyone they wrote it. Our former A+ list singer has a great big yarn about what inspired one of her hits. I wouldn't put it past her ex to talk about the real story.
Shania Twain
This foreign born former A+ list singer is altering history again. I love when singers who get songwriting credits then say what inspired the song when they know very well they just bought it from a writer and paid them enough to give up any credit or to mention to anyone they wrote it. Our former A+ list singer has a great big yarn about what inspired one of her hits. I wouldn't put it past her ex to talk about the real story.
Shania Twain
The Brad Pitt story line -- his nude photos with Gwynnie being the inspiration for "That Don't Impress Me Much". Mutt's been a dog but if he hasn't outed this lie yet I doubt he will.
ReplyDeleteI take it back, the story being why she lost her voice, fell ill for a long time after he betrayed her (she blames it on the stress he caused.)
ReplyDeleteI guess she didn't really feel like a woman after all.
ReplyDeleteI think Sheryl Crow gets the lifetime achievement award for taking credit for the "Leaving Las Vegas" song.
ReplyDeleteUgh, letterman interview...that dude killed himself after.just ugly story.
Delete@Court B: Well, holy fucking shit. I had to Google it, but you're right. Just an ugly pre-internet tale: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/More-Than-The-Piano-Player-Dumped-by-Sheryl-2966770.php
Delete"For Gilbert, the final straw came when Crow sang "Leaving Las Vegas" on the David Letterman show. Afterward, when Letterman asked her if the song was autobiographical, a flustered Crow blurted out, "Yes."
"I've never been to Las Vegas," continued Crow, who nobody remembers having contributed greatly to the writing of the song. "I wrote it about Los Angeles. It's really metaphorical."
The next day, she and Gilbert exchanged angry words over the phone. He wasn't the only one furious. Author John O'Brien -- who wrote the novel that inspired both Baerwald's early song lyrics and the movie starring Nicolas Cage -- was still grumbling about Crow's gaffe to his literary agent on the day he blew his brains out, a scant few weeks before the movie deal was complete."
DAMN.
@Brayson: I never heard that story either. As if I ever needed more reasons to dislike Sheryl Crow’s stuff.
Delete@Just sayin' she did also say the Brad Pitt thingy. Plus she's another one with Lyme Disease. But maybe hers was\is legitimate.
ReplyDeleteSomebody in the music business told me once half the songs credited to "stars" were written by somebody else and that it happens all the time. We know Blurred Lines wasn't written by the Thicke creep. Occasionally there are songs that seem so far outside the artist's talent range--"Missing You" by John Waite, "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver, for example, that I always figured somebody else wrote them.
ReplyDeleteI don't enjoy sick creepy fantasies about stealing credit for other people's work. That's why I timestamp my stuff online, in public where everyone can see. Even after I'm dead.
DeleteHuh. My understanding was that "Rocky Mountain High" was practically autobiographical. There were certainly lines in it that were very contemporary to events in Denver's life. But hey, there's lots of poets in Colorado.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how anything can NOT be autobiographical. You write what you know. I also happen to believe that there's no shame in being a one-hit wonder. Just stick to creating based on your urges, because forcing yourself to produce through "brain-storms" just makes for crap (I know because I tried and it sucks). And if that means being a one-hit wonder, then so be it. I'll go back to working at an office.
DeleteLet’s talk about Robbie Robertson ripping off everyone else in The Band.
ReplyDeleteShania was made by her ex hubs and producer, Mutt.
ReplyDeleteI knew John through his Ex wife Annie (Annie's song), he did write rocky mountian high.
Shania was well known incountry music and had hits before she met mutt. He made her better, though.
DeleteDear God I love John Denver's songs.
DeleteMe too @ raging bunnies. Was really shook up when he died! Even dreamt that I saw his plane crash..kind of bothered me. Learned to play guitar with his songs
DeleteLook stars do get credited for things they didn't do in a way to get extra money. Musicians get credited as songwriters and producers actors get credited as producers and executive producers. It's a recognized part of both businesses. The bigger the star, the more likely it happens.
ReplyDeleteseems kind of a tip off when someone has a big hit and supposedly wrote it but mostly sing songs written by others. songwriters don't write just one song. so even though i didn't know for sure they really just lie about this, i kinda suspected it.
ReplyDeleteI know that writers who are hired under a work-for-hire contract must complete the job without being entitled to ask for credit. This is how a lot of big-name authors manage to crank out books consistently without fear of "writer's block"—because someone else is doing the work of writing it. Example:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/genius-factories-past-and-present
I presume that work-for-hire contracts must be used with songwriters, too: you write the song, someone else buys the credit.
Back off John Denver. That is like going after Neil Diamond.
ReplyDeleteRobbie Robertson ripped off The Band?
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows which songs Levon Helm is responsible for - the good ones.
RIP Levon. Saw him live in 2009. His scene in Shooter is the hook of the movie.
DeleteBilly graham was a pedophile cocksucker who will roast in hell
ReplyDeleteAnd let's not forget: she looks very good standing in a pond. Mutt had nothing to do with that.
ReplyDeleteNow I wanna hear some John Denver
ReplyDeleteOh god, we just had a "songwriters festival" in town.
ReplyDeleteLots and lots of throwaways and only a few keepers.
But everyone was nice and said how good everyone was.
No doubt Shania probably had spies in the audience looking for her next hit.
@Mad Hominem - Tom Clancy is still "writing" books, and he's been dead five years
ReplyDeleteMe, too, Bunnies. Yeah, he was a corn dog, but he could play guitar pretty well, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's Zombie Tom Clancy. He has someone operating the keyboard on his Mac, because the skin flaking off his fingers kept shorting out the machine.
"Still got the shovel."
ReplyDeleteI think James Patterson wrote one book.
ReplyDeletePretty sure John Galt recruited all the good songwriters years ago.
ReplyDeleteWho is John Galt??
DeleteHey, I also have a friend that swears that a guy he knows was really the one that wrote the song "Dreams" that was sung by Stevie Nicks. My friend said that there was even a newspaper article to the fact. It was some guy in some small Texas town.
ReplyDeletePlease don't tear me up people... I understand she is an icon... I'm just sayin'...
Nicks has consistently said since 1976 that she wrote the song in the studio in one sitting. That it was a very rough demo that Lindsey then did his magic on. If somebody else wrote it, it sure seems autobiographical and sounds like her writing. That said, who really knows..sigh.
DeleteOooh. I know a lady on Tumblr who's a huge fan of hers—I wonder how she'd feel about this...
DeleteI just know her from "AHS: Coven" and the first song I heard of hers was actually a cover by The Corrs. 🍀
Love songwriting stories, Enty.
ReplyDeleteCan't imagine how these writers part with their work so easily. There's just no amount of "enough money" because it's not about the money.
Then again, I never understood fans who mail their original fan art to actors (FFS, you know they'll just chuck them—I don't think even the most narcissitic celeb would actually keep them to stare at). If I were famous enough to have fans who make fan art, I would tell them to keep their original copies for their portfolios (and share the scans online) so hopefully they can use them to get work/create them a job.
This was pretty well-known and many Canadians have great stories about how she lied about her background and raising her half-brothers. Twain has always been a spinner of tales.
ReplyDeleteI’d be embarrassed to admit to That Don’t Impress Me Much, personally.
ReplyDeleteAnd who’s slagging off John Denver?...I’ll take on every last one of ye!!! 🥊
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Sheryl Crow, as someone mentioned, is in a league of one. she ripped off an entire book of poems from one guy who sued her. of course, he settled out of court, big, big money. "all i want to do", and a couple of others were used.
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