The songwriter is creative -- the singer, not so much
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191211115550.htm
A study of 39 successful country-music songwriters found that they use two strategies to navigate creative collaboration with more famous artists.
"You have these recording artists who are being required to co-write their own songs, but maybe that's not their skill," said Rachel Skaggs, the study's author and an assistant professor of arts management at The Ohio State University.