Understand that the way we attribute the work of many artists who work under Beyonce's direction to Beyonce herself is very closely analogous to how we attribute the work of many apprentice artists in the studios of the Great Masters to the famous names of painting themselves.
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and even more analogous to how we attribute the work of many artists who work under [insert male auteur director here] to that director.
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So when you say "Beyonce doesn't write her own songs," I hear something akin to "Spielberg doesn't edit his own films," or even, "you know Raphael didn't actually paint that bush."
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Shakespeare is another artist who worked far more collaboratively than the Romantic myth of the individual genius would have you believe. And let's not even get into, say, Homer, which is the name we give to what was probably generations of tradition.
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