[darktruth]

This question has been bugging me for a while, can a person in the music industry be considered an artist if they can sing but don't write their own songs? For me it seems like nowadays an artist will only be taken seriously if they can write their own songs. What's your opinion?

[Scar da Kookee]

well, me, not sure. hell if they can sing, and sing damn good. let em

[Maverick]

I don't think that any of the renowned classic opera singers did write the songs they sing.

[Chimasterwang]

XD Mav
Well they are performing artists right?

[kyubichan]

For me it seems like nowadays an artist will only be taken seriously if they can write their own songs.

I think that it's only because there's a lot of competition nowadays, thus people expect more from artists that would differentiate one from another.

I voted yes, since singing isn't a walk in the park. Control, power, etc. are needed to sing well. If the person can carry an awesome tune and give life to a song, even if he/she/it didn't write it, then he/she/it is an artist.

[Blue Confusion]

Good point, Mav XD

I'm with Kyubi on this one, singing alone is a piece of art regardless of who penned the tune or the words. Some of my favourite songs are covers of older songs, which another singer or band has reworked in tune or tempo or whatever, and outstripped the original. But if their entire repertoire consists of just ripping off prior songs and repeating them ad verbatim without injecting anything new.... I don't really respect that.

[Chimasterwang]

Control, power, etc. are needed to sing well. If the person can carry an awesome tune and give life to a song, even if he/she/it didn't write it, then he/she/it is an artist.

Performing artist then, since they are performing it?

[Geass]

I don't know.....you then have those fiascos in which they don't even perform their music live when they are in concert, how its all canned (AKA A tape)

Such as that one incident on saturday night live, then you have major pop stars not even singing at all when on stage, only lypsinching.

The only actuall live performance group I have seen that sounds remarcably close to their recorded works would be the group FLOW, the one taht performed for Eureka 7, and for Code Geass.


FLOW-Song-DAYS .Live.

[spinkle]

IMO:

Artists create.

Performers perform.

There is an art to performance, though, as has been previously stated.