Taking Sides: Busted vs. The Jonas Brothers

[koganbot]

Not much has changed, but they live underwater:

Busted vs. The Jonas Brothers.

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Re: wtf

[koganbot]

obviously in this situation Busted were better, they did write the song

What's so obvious about it, and what does their writing the song have to do with it? Carl Perkins wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," but Elvis Presley's version of it was a lot better than Carl's. That said, I do prefer the Busted version of "Year 3000," because I think they sing it better. But if the Jonas Brothers had sung it better - and hadn't changed "your great-great-great-granddaughter is pretty fine" to "your great-great-great-grandaughter is DOING fine" - then in this situation the Jonas Brothers would be better.

But I have a question: WHY is it such a big deal to you people who wrote the song? I'm genuinely curious, since I don't see how only singing songs that you write yourself makes your music better than that of someone who sings songs that other people write. What if the other people write better songs?

Also, if any of you are interested, I quoted some of you in my column last week.

[anonymous poster from two up]

[(Anonymous)]

Well more than most times the writing on the song has a long to do with performance. Most writers have poured so much emotion into their song, that they couldnt bare anyone else to sing it. They have too... because its so close to them, and a great performance is done because they can put that into their vocals. Where as some artist sing their songs, and ONLY sing. (NOT like the Jonas Brothers.) I love the Jonas Brothers and i think they do sound really good in Year 3000. And other songs that they didnt write. And when i said 'ovbiously' i was saying it about the sound and the fact they wrote it, not purely on the writing aspect.
And sure, some amazing singers cant write a song for hell. Thats not a problem, and it doesnt make you sound better, it can, but not always.
All in all it really isnt about who wrote it, though i respect artists who write there song more than the one's who dont, but thats MY opinion. And ONLY mine, it doesnt make them sound better, but still... i feel that way. It you can feel a song as if you wrote it, then go for it, you may be better than the original.

But back to the subject, JB does an AMAZING job with singing Year 3000 and Thats what i go to school for, but i do feel Busted did a better job in both, again my opinion.

P.S: I feel that writers should get way more than credit that they do. (The song writers who dont perform them.)