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Originally Posted by louder
Well, I think the main diffrerence is Solange writes her own music (to a larger extent than Bey does). Bey doesn't really have ghost writers, all of her writers are credited, she never claimed to be the main writer behind most of her songs.. actually, I'm not sure if my first claim was true.
But I still consider Bey an artist. I don't respect her as much as, say, Prince of course.. but she's always been involved in the creative process of her albums, especially her last three.
By the way, Raphael Saadiq was all over Solange's album, can't really go wrong with that.
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Beyoncé is definitely involved in her shit. Has been since she went solo, and she's been more involved on each project. She co-writes a lot of tracks, but yeah, doesn't claim to be the main songwriter.
I don't think of her as a performance artist... she's just a really charismatic singer with a great personality (like Aretha, or, honestly, Michael Jackson) and those qualities shine through and make the art itself a special and beautiful thing.
She's a grown ass woman, and she puts herself into everything. I think it's fair to call her an artist, without qualification. Her records have been kind-blowing since 4, and she's doing her own totally Beyoncé thing.
I didn't know Saadiq was writing on that Solange joint though.
He was on LUKE CAGE too y'all!