Who is the least talented singer/songwriter in Fleetwood Mac

[nicole21290]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

In never said she never wrote a song. She did. I totally agree with you. But she normally needs someone else to finish it and call it a worked out song. That says NOTHING about the core quality of a sketch on tape. I even like Lindsey's half finish products regularly better than the finished product. But this is a question about who is the most talented Singer/songwriter. Not the most talented idea-sketcher. But one can fight that. Ofcourse.

Ah, okay. I got some other kind of vibe from the idea of her not being able to 'completely write a song' without help. So you would consider none of those piano demos (or something like Landslide) a 'worked out song'? I guess I'm quibbling, really. I just think it's a little dismissive to act like it's less of a song because it hasn't been all produced and arranged to within an inch of its life. Would you really call the demo of The Chain an 'idea' as opposed to a 'song'?

I mean, I agree that Lindsey is more objectively talented in terms of the overall package than Stevie. The issue is that songwriting isn't just the end product - it's lyrics, melody, structure, all sorts of things. And they're all probably stronger in different areas. Most of the time here it's going to come down to either:
1) Who is stronger in the most areas? (and how do we measure stronger, anyway? personal preference? commercial success?)
2) What area do we value the most? (and even then, people have subjective opinions on who is best within those areas)
3) our definition of singer/songwriter

The problem that I have with this whole thing is that asking for the 'least' talented is just asking for trouble. At this stage, threads asking for 'positive' comments (let's say, who is the MOST talented?) already devolve pretty quickly into negativity. It's the nature of the beast (I've been through the same thing for years in debates about Lennon vs McCartney) - we compare and contrast, and usually in doing so put down one artist in order to inflate the other. Not always, of course, but it's not uncommon either.