Sorry Smithy, but GaGa isn't a genius songwriter.

Pete Wentz writes the majority of FOB songs :)
Those that haven't been mentioned, Alex Turner, Kanye West, Drake, Eminem (his older stuff), Amy Winehouse.

seriously? i always thought it was a joint effort but patrick wrote more. wow.

And Eminem is a great songwriter in my opinion, I love his lyrics, especially in the song "Lose Yourself".

but Leona Lewis is D:

Anyway, if you look at it as her only just starting out in her career writing all her own music similar to the way the Beatles did, she has so much room to improve, and just get better and better.

A comparison between GaGa and The Beatles..........?????? moving on........

Eminems earlier stuff was gold.
Jim Morrison


and most of whats been said already

She is no genius. Accept it.

Early GaGa and early Beatles, they wrote songs about holding hands and kissing, she's doing the same, sort of :p

Smithy. Shut the **** up.

Lennon
Mccartney
Harrison

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Diane Warren, Curtis Mayfield, Hal David, Otis Redding and Steve Cropper, Elton John, Lord Webber, Ashford and Simpson, Bobby Womack, Paul Simon, Diana Krall, Van Morrison, Queen, Billy Joe, Elvis Costello, Trent Reznor, Berry Gordy, Lionel Richie, Thom yorke and Johny Greenwood, Prince, Bono and The Edge, Chuck D, sly Stone, George Clinton, Jimi Hendrix, James Taylor, Jackson Browne

Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Robert Smith, Billy Corgan >

Pete only writes the lyrics, Patrick does the instrumentation.

Burt Bacarach

Are you in Germany yet?

Some great choices in there, particularly Otis Reddng, George Clinton, Sly Stone, Diana Krall, Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood.

Some good female songwriters off the top of my head (everyone I mentioned previously was male)...

Kim Gordon
Kate Bush
PJ Harvey
Bjork
Liz Phair

Nick Cave is very special. Great lyricist.

Oh, and Joni Mitchell.

Suzanne Vega

Steven Sondheim

People might slay me, bit I'm gonna say Alex Turner. The AM appealed to a generation, and you can't knock that.

No slating from me. He's one of the best songwriters of this generation and he's got that lyrical genius thing going.

Definitely. That first album, he just totally tapped in to what everyone was on about.

Gary Barlow, Linda Perry, Michael Jackson, Guy Chambers, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Brandon Flowers, Gary Lightbody, Courtney Love, Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, Billy Corgan, Joni Mitchell.

Ray Davies