Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a song written by a team, a listener can sense that they aren't hearing an expression of a solitary individual's pain or joy, but that of a virtual conjoined person? Can we tell that an individual singer might actually represent a collective, that he might have multiple identities? Does that make the sentiments expressed more poetically universal? Dan eliminating some portion of the authorial voice make a piece of music more accessible and the singer more empathetic? .David Byrne
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When a song is written by a team, the very identity of the authorial voice itself is lost. It might have been Dan who wrote the song, it might have been Tom, Chris or someone else. In this case, it's probably best to think of the song as coming from a group, not an individual. When we hear a song we need to be able to tell who wrote it and what role he played. This doesn't mean that we can't enjoy songs with anonymous authorship, but we should be aware that we're probably not getting into the mind of the person who created it and that we're missing some of its depth if we don't know who wrote it.
Source: How Music Works
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