https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/magazine/greatest-american-songwriters-alive.htmlJay-ZYoung ThugKendrick LamarOutKastMissy ElliottMariah CareyThe-DreamBad BunnyBabyfaceStevie WonderNile RodgersJimmy Jam & Terry LewisSmokey RobinsonLionel RichieTaylor SwiftLana Del ReyDolly PartonBob DylanBruce SpringsteenPaul SimonCarole KingWillie NelsonMike LoveFiona AppleLucinda WilliamsRomeo SantosValerie SimpsonBrian & Eddie HollandStephin MerrittJosh Osborne, Brandy Clark & Shane McAnally
>>130127713Is this a joke?
>>130127713Keep it a buck with meIs Bad Bunny really that great of a songwriter? I know he's a huge artist and that's awesome for him but I see him always making all these lists and it feels like he's just a token now.Not even trying to hate!
>>130127713SUPER HOT TAKE INCOMING:i don't car
>>130127743He's the DEI Latinx pick (and "Romeo Santos" whoever that is). When youre limiting yourself to American born (*Puerto Rican) you cant pick Shakira.
>>130127743bad bunny songwriting is shit, trust meit's included here only becuz he is super popular and they have to include a latino on there to appear cultured
>>130127713I love how you guys are doubling down on Epsteins plans
>>130127713>Jay-Z5 good songs only one of whichever he is the main songwriter of>Young ThugI dont think he even wrote his one good song>outkast>Stevie Wonder>Bob Dylan>Bruce Springsteen>Paul SimonSure whateverThe rest suck and are overratedThe real best living songwriters are>Trent Reznor >Jerry Cantrell>Robert Deleo>James Hetfield
>>130127833>Epsteins plansVote democrat and fund transgender surgeries? No sir.
>>130127929Good goy
>>130127713I dont know half of those talentless hacks...Lionel Ritche from the song Hello Is It Me You Lookin 4Taylor SwiftBob DylanLana Del Rey because she is a meme among "art" pop womenStivie Wonder because he is a pretty good panistWho the fuck is anyone else. I dont know and I dont give a fuck. They probably make Not Music.
>>130127713>no PaulMcCartney>no Andy partridge>no David Byrne>no Ray Davies>no Jeff Lynne>bunch of rappers>Mike fucking Love???
>>130127990>American
>>130127713huh... i thought Willie Nelson died
>>130127713The actual best living american songwriter is Robert Pollard but no publication will ever say it.
>>130127834>Cantrell>deleoEmbarrassing picks t bqh my zoomoid famalam
>>130127713I would really like to know when Babyface last made an appearance in the public imagination. Why not throw in Tone Loc while you're at it. Hell, Al B. Sure! is still alive, right?
>>130128042Greatness skips a generation. Millenials will go down in history as broke boomers
>>130128316Better than zoomers
>>130128010You're gonna curse him; watch him die tomorrow
>>130127713>Mike LoveNice try OP
>>130128316We got Mr Worldwide, son. Multi generational, era defining artist. Your generation be living in his shadow.
>>130127713Where’s Keith Richards?
>>130128546>no Dylan
>>130128603American.
>>130128546kek based
>>130128611No he’s British
>>130127713I like how if you remove "living" and make it all encompassing there wouldn't be a single non-White on this list
>>130128633No it says greatest American songwriters, not British
>>130128758I too hate black people
>>130127713MikeGODS won
>>130128925Buddy the singing beagle is a better songwriter than Mike Love(if he’s still alive- it’s been seven years he probably is dead)https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj_FCM7THDI&pp=ygUaYnVkZHkgbWVyY3VyeSBiZWFnbGUgcGlhbm8%3D
>>130127713I theorize they made a mostly normal / 'safe' list and then put Young Thug there as a ragebait entry so they could get more engagement and clicks out of it. >>130128546I love how when you go to the runner up page the writers nominated David Byrne and Randy Newman 3-5 times each and yet they somehow took lower priority to Young fucking Thug. (That is, of course, if Young Thug was somehow a sincere candidate, which I doubt).
>>130127713>prostitutes 16 year old Beyonce into fame and marriage Truly our greatest songwriter of our time
>>130127713Where the heck is Ariel Pink?
>>130127713young thug doesn't write his lyrics
Wokeness aside, this is astonishing malpractice. And that's completely intentional. The media and entertainment exist now to rub in your face that they hate you.This isn't even about my personal tastes, but where's...?AerosmithPearl JamThe ByrdsCSNThe Eaglesand so onNot to mention newer acts that easily eclipse "songwriters" like Missy Elliott.
>>130127717>Mike LoveYou tell me
>>130130042He is so fucking ugly its unreal
>>130128042They mog the pop/rap slop on the list.>>130132335The triumphalist calls that woke is dead in Nov 2024 were so delusional. Institutional capture is immovable. And no one stopped using pronouns in bio. Based on young generations the practice is just gonna keep increasing.
>>130127743nohe's the token latino because he's the only one most americans recognize
>>130127743Fuck no. Nobody that knows about music even likes Raegetroon in Latin America.t. Mexican
>>130127743It's just trendy for left-wing Whites to pretend to like him for woke points and Chicano like him to signal cultural pride or something
>>130127713That's three times today where I;ve laughed incredulously at what I was reading.The RX1Riii is $8500 NZ dollars and not worth 2k.Trump's visage is on the new US passportsAnd now this. Fucking Bad Bunny is a great songwriter? Taylor Swift with her bus load of writers?This is one reason to keep living, just the insanity of everything. The C64 Double Dragon II theme I heard today, influenced by Beat it Michael Jackson which came out round the same time.https://youtu.be/7pONRbIHT_w?si=4Tgt_TlV-BCIpuua&t=636
