Controversial opinion. That shouldnt be controversial.

I dont think its a controversial opinion if you have common sense.

Dont call a song or anything that your faves have no contribution in as "their masterpiece". Its honestly a shxtty thing to do. Dont ever say its their masterpiece/art(song) when their only contribution is vocals. Praise their vocals, sure. But praising and saying they are the ones who release a "masterpiece"(because of the lyrics, melody, instrument, production) when they have zero contribution is (believe it or not) rude. They literally put credits in every song just for you to praise the wrong people. I thought it would be common sense. Give credits where its due. Not give credit where you want, to make you feel good.

I will give an example:

The group members have no contributions in the lyrics

But then a fan said:

Now, this lyric is a masterpiece, as expected from my faves. They know how to write lyrics to spread a great message.

When in reality they dont have any contribution in the lyrics.

KBYE.

Quote from icyruios

Can't relate, my faves write everything and co-produce everything and when I say everything I really mean E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G

You dont need to tell me that. I already know its a fact.

Quote from lalala123456

This reminds me of when fans praise idols for their fashion choices at award shows, on stage etc, calling them fashion kings and queens when like 99% of the time, it’s a stylist choosing the clothes for them but when the idol wears something so ugly, it’s immediately the stylist’s fault and no fault of the idol Sorry this is random and off topic

Not off topic at all. And very true. They be praising them like theres no tomorrow. But when it is ugly, they literally blame anyone else but their faves. To make them feel good.

This can also be applied to songs, when its bad, blame everyone else. But when its good, Its their masterpiece when they have 0 contributions.

Quote from chounim

i do not agree at all. interpretation and delivery are very important elements of what a song is.

a song without the singers giving life to it is nothing but an instrumental and words on a paper. now i know that instrumentals can be a standalone but we are talking about songs that have singing in them here.

Quote from omegateatimer

So according to you, someone singing a song and thus contributing to it, does not count as a contribution?

Quote from SooYoung

this is not common sense because this opinion make no sense

a song can be good in the melody, lyrics etc.... you can give the most perfect ballad and very emotional ballad to someone that doesn't mean that this song even if she's perfect in theory will be perfect in reality if the one who interpret the song doesn't know how to portray the emotions in the song

that's the reason why some people produce and write lyrics but doesn't interpret their own songs, because they understand that with their contribution the song is only half of a masterpiece

Adele songs wouldn't be so good if she wasn't the one who sing them because she know how to portray the emotions that the song hold

that's the reasn why most cover can't reach the level of the original, because people covering this songs don't understand the story behind this song

a song become a masterpiece thanks to the one who write, produce, compose and interpret the song

saying that people shouldn't praise a singer for making of a song a masterpiece

means that you can give this song to the worst singer and you'll still like it , and let's be honest it wouldn't be the case

it's just like how a story can become more realistic depending on who told the story

or how a joke can be funny or not depending on who's the person telling the joke

a song as good as it can be in theory

is nothing without a good interpreter to give life to the song

i always thought it was the most basic knowledge to know in music considering that anybody with a little bit of common sense would understand

but it doesn't seems it's the case

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Quote from selfmate

counterpoint...

8 Singers Who Never Write Their Own Songs (cheatsheet.com)

tell me those artists aren't legends and their songs aren't masterpieces?

I guess my explanation was not detailed enough. And thats my fault. Or maybe Im just stupid.

I will give an example:

The group members have no contributions in the lyrics

But then a fan said:

Now, this lyric is a masterpiece, as expected from my faves. They know how to write lyrics to spread a great message.

When in reality they dont have any contribution in the lyrics.

This is what Im trying to say. Sorry for any confusion.

Quote from SandyBee3

A song becomes a hit because of the Artists who interprets it. Many legends did not wrote their own Songs… yet are considered legends who released masterpieces.

Made some tweaks on the OP. Sorry for any confusion.