These lists are always train wrecks, but the NY Times list is worse than most.
This is Rick Beato's video The NYT "Greatest Songwriters" List is an Absolute Disaster
Here is just one thought.
Dave Grohl with the Foo Fighters, right? You could say, well, he belongs on there. He's got at least three billion stream songs. We're talking about popularity and been around in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. Once for Nirvana, once for Foo Fighters.
No Metallica (biggest Metal band?), no John Fogerty, no Jimmy Webb, who wrote "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston," no Donald Fagen, of Steely Dan, no James, Taylor, no Jackson Browne, no Billy Joel, etc. The list of people not on this list is long.
So who did the New York Times think should be on the list? Bad Bunny. I'm not linking to the NY Slimes. You can find it easy enough, and it isn't even behind a paywall, or it isn't as I type this.
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