A remake? Really? Why does she have a writing credit on it then? And if she doesn't write her own music, why does so much of her music from as far back as her FIRST ALBUM have her name in the writing credits, at times being the only name there?
People here seem to have a very loose interpretation of what "remake" means. It is not a remake. It is a re-working of another song that was either never recorded or never released. It appears Madonna rewrote some of the lyrics to a song she intended to record from the beginning; thus the additional writing credit. This is not unusual. Artists rearrange other songwriters' work all the time, that's why you sometimes see up to 5 or 6 songwriters credited for just one track. To say "Ray of Light" is a remake is like saying any song...
People here seem to have a very loose interpretation of what "remake" means. It is not a remake. It is a re-working of another song that was either never recorded or never released. It appears Madonna rewrote some of the lyrics to a song she intended to record from the beginning; thus the additional writing credit. This is not unusual. Artists rearrange other songwriters' work all the time, that's why you sometimes see up to 5 or 6 songwriters credited for just one track. To say "Ray of Light" is a remake is like saying any song ever recorded by an artist more than once is a remake as well.
A remake? Really? Why does she have a writing credit on it then? And if she doesn't write her own music, why does so much of her music from as far back as her FIRST ALBUM have her name in the writing credits, at times being the only name there?
People here seem to have a very loose interpretation of what "remake" means. It is not a remake. It is a re-working of another song that was either never recorded or never released. It appears Madonna rewrote some of the lyrics to a song she intended to record from the beginning; thus the additional writing credit. This is not unusual. Artists rearrange other songwriters' work all the time, that's why you sometimes see up to 5 or 6 songwriters credited for just one track. To say "Ray of Light" is a remake is like saying any song...
People here seem to have a very loose interpretation of what "remake" means. It is not a remake. It is a re-working of another song that was either never recorded or never released. It appears Madonna rewrote some of the lyrics to a song she intended to record from the beginning; thus the additional writing credit. This is not unusual. Artists rearrange other songwriters' work all the time, that's why you sometimes see up to 5 or 6 songwriters credited for just one track. To say "Ray of Light" is a remake is like saying any song ever recorded by an artist more than once is a remake as well.