You Mean Writing A Symphony Is Harder Than Singing A 3-Minute Song?

Let’s face facts: “classical” works written by ambitious pop stars always suck. Always. Likewise, attempts by pop singers, no matter how talented in their field, to tackle Schumann lieder (Streisand) and classic English lute music (Sting), nearly always end in disaster. But why? It’s pretty simple (and depressing), actually. “Many rock musicians can’t read music and have what strikes most classical musicians as rather a loose conception of authorship, relying on amanuenses to transform vague ideas into detailed life.”