why is this new to people?

there are ghostwriters all the time esp in this industry, we all know how u add a few words nowadays and u CAN get credit as a writer
it just so happens that the writer is a visible person themselves

missmad said:

Exactly, and this coming from a ghostwriter myself but I don't work in the music industry though. It very common for musician and artists use ghostwriters. Same goes for the book and magazine industry.

madonna's been doing it for years. it ain't nothing new.

"When will Beyonce stop?"

When Jay-Z finally gets her pregnant. Please get her knocked-up, PLEASE, so she'll sit her ass down!!!!. This is the main reason I can never completely hate K-Fed. He saved my ears from having to listen to Britney for two years and now she looks like hell...all puffy faced with stretch marks and C-section scars. Even rich, famous, and beautiful people can't completely get rid of stretch marks. Thanks K-Fed!

I gostwrote BEP's My Humps!

I gostwrote BEP's My Humps!

why is this new to people?

there are ghostwriters all the time esp in this industry, we all know how u add a few words nowadays and u CAN get credit as a writer

Who's that "Yo-Yo" dude?

MikeMatronik said:

sallysassalot said:

Can u provide proof?

MikeMatronik said:

i can only provide examples of when she she was busted for not writing AND not giving credit. she and lenny took all the credit for justify my love when, in fact the lyrics came from a love letter ingrid chaves wrote to lenny. she sued and won. then there was sky fits heaven. she bought the rights to a hip hop act's lyrics (which, by the way, were used in a gap ad before madonna ever used them) and on the credits only she and her producers were credited.

i've read before...though its just rumor...that she and prince wrote like a prayer but he opted to go uncredited.
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MikeMatronik said:

i can only provide examples of when she she was busted for not writing AND not giving credit. she and lenny took all the credit for justify my love when, in fact the lyrics came from a love letter ingrid chaves wrote to lenny. she sued and won. then there was sky fits heaven. she bought the rights to a hip hop act's lyrics (which, by the way, were used in a gap ad before madonna ever used them) and on the credits only she and her producers were credited.

i've read before...though its just rumor...that she and prince wrote like a prayer but he opted to go uncredited.
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remember when Madonna and I first started working together on Erotica. We were listening in my home studio to one of the first songs and I turned to her and said "It's great, but it's no Vogue." She told me that not every song could be Vogue - not every cut could emerge as the top-selling record of all time. She was right, but I pressed my case anyway: "I guess I'm always trying to out-top myself," I told her, "the next thing should be bigger than the last." Madonna just turned and looked me straight in the eye. It had been a long time since I'd been star-struck by her, but she was glowing differently now. "Shep," she began, "no matter how fierce something is, you can't ever do the same thing twice." She sat down to record the final vocals on Erotica and looked out onto the terrace and into the New York City night. "Ever," she repeated

Deeper and Deeper, Erotica, Rain and Thief of Hearts made up the first batch of songs we worked on together. I did the music and she wrote the words. Sometimes I'd give her some ideas lyrically and she'd go: "Oh, that's good," or "That sucks." I remember when I gave her some ideas lyrically for Vogue and she said, very curtly, "That's what I do." Essentially, her songs are her stories. They're the things she wants to say.

The Erotica Diary [May 1992]
I met Madonna at Oceanway Studios in Los Angeles to complete the orchestra parts for This Used To Be My Playground. We had to record a string arrangement - something I was excited about but had never done before.
Madonna chose Jeremy Lubock to do the arrangements beacause he had done such a good job with her I'm Breathless Material and came highly recomended. Everything went fine until the point when the orchestra played their parts; we didn't like what we heard. Madonna and I had to change the whole arrangement, right there in the studio, with a full orchestra sitting there getting paid for taking up space - around $15,000 for three hours, $3000 for every half hour over that. And of cource, Lubbock was talking to two people who didn't know a C from a B natural. The pressure was on.



I can only sing the notes I hear at the moment, so that's what I did. Madonna and I stood there over my little Mac, singing the notes, and Lubbock would go, "Oh, that's a G; Oh,that's a B" and that's how it got done. We completed the session in 2 hours and 58 minutes - two minutes away from another three grand. The last day of recording fell on Memorial day. Madonna wanted to do the lead vocals again, insisting that it would sound better. It did. I finished off some edits before going over to a party Madonna was throwing in her Hollywood mansion.

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