I think that "featuring"s show on song titles are too annoying and make them look bad and inelegant, as they found mostly in Rap albums and few others too. so why not just get rid of them?
Not a big fan of this either, I think it looks cleaner without, but some tracks are listed on the artwork with featured artists as part of the title and others aren't. In those cases it probably looks neater to put the featured artist in brackets after the title where the featured artist is not credited as part of the album as a whole e.g. Track Name (feat. Artist Name). BEA doesn't have a field to capture featured artists separately at the moment. It's probably something worth adding at some point. I'd also like to see track lengths and a few other things as well, but all this extra input creates extra work, so it's always a bit of a trade-off here.
I think that "featuring"s show on song titles are too annoying and make them look bad and inelegant, as they found mostly in Rap albums and few others too. so why not just get rid of them?
As a hip-hop fan I am 100% against this. Getting rid of them should not be an option. I'd find it insulting to the artists.
"Featuring" (...and this is a new thing, coming from hip hop) is a way for artists to "shout out" to the person who agreed to appear on a track. I suppose that paying them isn't enough...or listing them in the album credits isn't either.
"Featuring" is also a way for artists to place a piece of advertising onto their tracklists. People are more likely to listen to the song "Bitches" by MC Pooper if the track is marketed as "Bitches (feat. SNOOP DOGG).
Ultimately, a musician who plays on a song is not part of the song title, and shouldn't be included on the track listing. It's kinda tacky. Just because someone happens to rap a couple of lines in a song, or play bass, or diums, or a guitar solo, or sing harmony on the chorus...does that mean that they are entitled to be part of the song title?
Please say no to "feat." as part of song titles. It's tacky, and those who do it should find it embarrassing. No musician should ever have their name included in a song title...unless the song is about them, not because they contributed something to the recording. It's foolish. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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"Featuring" (...and this is a new thing, coming from hip hop) is a way for artists to "shout out" to the person who agreed to appear on a track. I suppose that paying them isn't enough...or listing them in the album credits isn't either.
"Featuring" is also a way for artists to place a piece of advertising onto their tracklists. People are more likely to listen to the song "Bitches" by MC Pooper if the track is marketed as "Bitches (feat. SNOOP DOGG).
Ultimately, a musician who plays on a song is not part of the song title, and shouldn't be included on the track listing. It's kinda tacky. Just because someone happens to rap a couple of lines in a song, or play bass, or diums, or a guitar solo, or sing harmony on the chorus...does that mean that they are entitled to be part of the song title?
Please say no to "feat." as part of song titles. It's tacky, and those who do it should find it embarrassing. No musician should ever have their name included in a song title...unless the song is about them, not because they contributed something to the recording. It's foolish.
Agreed. It's worse than Tyler Perry putting his name in the title of all his TV shows. _________________
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