When a co-write goes great, sometimes we share information that our spouses don't even know, because that's where we have to dig in order to get to the truth. | | | | Erykah Badu in Chicago, Aug. 10, 1997.
(Paul Natkin/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “When a co-write goes great, sometimes we share information that our spouses don't even know, because that's where we have to dig in order to get to the truth.”
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| | rantnrave:// On the same day the COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME announces it's inducting the great (and slightly overdue) DOTTIE WEST, who survived a sexually abusive childhood to become a pioneering voice for women in NASHVILLE—and who expertly executed an image change mid-career—we get this reminder from NPR MUSIC that the more things stay the same, the more they stay the same. EMILY SINER's report on co-writing sessions in Music City chronicles the stories of professional female songwriters who show up to co-writes with professional male songwriters only to discover that the man thinks it's a date. And sometimes worse. The experience apparently can feel a little blurry to some writers because co-writing requires opening up emotionally to each other in a way that doesn't normally happen in co-working situations in most professions. Then again, to reach a state of full blur, a male songwriter has to forget that his alleged date was booked by his manager or publisher, who, and I'm reasonably sure I'm on solid ground here, are not normally in the business of being a human TINDER for their clients. The result, inevitably, is a community of women like LAUREL SORENSON, who tells Siner, "I don't really write with men anymore one-on-on." Her choice, obviously. But she shouldn't be forced into making it. It limits her options, limits her network, potentially limits her career, and limits our chances to hear art made by different voices working together. As is par for the course in these situations, women trade stories of problematic collaborators in a private FACEBOOK group, while the executive director of NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL says he's never seen a complaint of sexual harassment during a co-write. The more things don't change... I don't see any evidence that a song called "The More Things Don't Change" exists. Someone in Nashville feel free to do something about that... Also going into the Country Hall of Fame: RICKY SKAGGS and JOHNNY GIMBLE... I'm not in the habit of sharing festival lineup announcements, since that isn't really what I do and since they're all sort of the same anyway. But some aren't the same, and some are AFROPUNK, which will have ERYKAH BADU, MIGUEL, JANELLE MONAE, IBEYI and lots more over two days in August in BROOKLYN, and N.E.R.D, the INTERNET, BENJAMIN BOOKER and more in October in ATLANTA. Other festivals, take note... RIP PILAR MCCURRY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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