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Most interesting lyrically? Madonna, Gaga, Mariah or Janet

Most interesting song writer?

  • Janet

    Votes: 19 26.0%
  • Gaga

    Votes: 4 5.5%
  • Madonna

    Votes: 6 8.2%
  • Mariah

    Votes: 44 60.3%

  • Total voters
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The only I really know is Mariah. I like janet but Madonna and Gaga I never pay attention or give them my time.

So I my vote is Mariah, she's an amazing songwritter and very underrated! People sleep on her
 

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I'm not that familiar with Mariah’s catalog....I may have picked her if not for that...?!

I go with Madonna here; she has loads of sonic & lyrical variety...2 of the main factors I look for in songwriting. Very risky too, of course. Lol
 

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I was going to go with Gaga, but Mariah appeals more to me...... I'm sure of Janet's writing skills

Mimi's written most of her catalogue..... Of the top of my head is "We belong together"... And tbh, she's penned some of the most iconic ballads
 
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Lyrically? None are Tina Marie or Steve Nicks. Hell you could argue Mary J Blige lyrics are deeper then all of them. But of those mentioned maybe its a tie between Madonna & Janet?
 

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Is Madonna a SongWritter ? How many songs has she written?

The only Songwritters i see in this list are Gaga and Mariah Carey .
 

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Mariah & Madonna are in a league of their own. Both women write/produce their own music and have dabbled in almost every genre.

I love Janet but her catalog lacks the diversity of the other two. She's still my girl though. But you can pop in any Janet album of the past 20 yrs and they all sound somewhat similar. Whereas no two Mariah/Madonna albums sound alike.

As for Gaga, she not even worthy of being mentioned in the same paragraph as the othere 3...
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I'm confused as to how Gaga got put in the group with these ladies. They're all from a different era than Gaga.

Also, is this as far as artists who write their own lyrics? Or just the their lyrics in general being interesting? If it's about singer-songwriter, I will go with Mariah since she wrote all (or at least the majority) of her earlier music
 

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Mariah & Madonna are in a league of their own. Both women write/produce their own music and have dabbled in almost every genre.

I love Janet but her catalog lacks the diversity of the other two. She's still my girl though. But you can pop in any Janet album of the past 20 yrs and they all sound somewhat similar. Whereas no two Mariah/Madonna albums sound alike.

As for Gaga, she not even worthy of being mentioned in the same paragraph as the othere 3...
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Honestly neither Madonna nor Mariah has done anything outside of Pop music. If you post actually lyrics you will find their lyrics are no more deeper then hers. What album has Mariah ever created that is on the same deep wave length as Rhythm Nation or Velvet Rope that tackled abuse?
 

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Mariah is the best lyricist here:

"And then you casually walked into the room
And I was twisted in the web of my desire for you
My apprehension blew away, I only wanted you
To taste my sadness as you kissed me in the dark"

- The Roof

"When glory days turn to stormy nights
You must have been so petrified
Didn't you, didn't you feel so cold
You against the world in a losing fight
Captive of your demons inside
So you sought an enemy
Like times before to mock ignorantly (he lives in you, you know it's true)
(But the Lord said love, love your enemy so just)
Take heed to the word it's time
Check Proverbs 19:29
Don't cry"

- I Wish You Well

"Well I guess I'm trying to be
Nonchalant about it
And I'm going to extremes to prove
I'm fine without you
But in reality I'm slowly losing my mind
Underneath a disguise of a smile
Gradually I'm dying inside
Friends ask me how I feel
And I lie convincingly
'Cause I don't want to reveal
The fact that I'm suffering
So I wear my disguise
'Til I go home at night
And turn down all the lights
And then I break down and cry"

- Breakdown

"Somehow I know that
There's a place up above
With no more hurt and struggling
Free of all atrocities and suffering
Because I feel the unconditional love
From one who cares enough for me
To erase all my burdens and let me be free to

Fly like a bird, take to the sky
I need you now Lord, carry me high
Don't let the world break me tonight
I need the strength of you by my side
Sometimes this life can be so cold
I pray you'll come and carry me home"

- Fly Like A Bird

Her pen game is...different to the other ladies here.

Janet is the GOAT female performer though and her catalogue is perhaps the best of the past 40 years.
 

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Take away gaga and janet tbh

You are right , actually when i check Gaga albums credits most of them are-co-writings , which i definitely dont consider as a real skills unless the artist had been able to writte multiple songs alone .

Mariah is the only songwritter on the on list
 

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I'm confused as to how Gaga got put in the group with these ladies. They're all from a different era than Gaga.

Also, is this as far as artists who write their own lyrics? Or just the their lyrics in general being interesting? If it's about singer-songwriter, I will go with Mariah since she wrote all (or at least the majority) of her earlier music

I dont know what OP calls lyricist cause most in the list are not songwritters .
 

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Impossible to choose. Also Gaga has great lyrics but less music for me to think about so I probably wouldn’t have mentioned her. But among her peers of her age range she probably has the best lyrics.
 

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I'm torn between Janet & Madonna. I think they were more adventurous lyrically & tackled different themes/subject matter and both did a lot of writing & co-writing.

Mariah is a great writer too. I'd say a better writer than the other ladies but I wouldn't say the most interesting, at least as far as what she's trying to say.

Gaga. I'm gonna pass on that one.
 

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Impossible to choose. Also Gaga has great lyrics but less music for me to think about so I probably wouldn’t have mentioned her. But among her peers of her age range she probably has the best lyrics.

I know Janet and Madonna contribute to their songs but they’re not songwriters quite in the way Mariah and Gaga are.
 

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Janet is slept on for sure...

...but MARIAH'S pen game is unparalleled.
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Mariah just because she's the only one on this list who I KNOW wrote her OWN lyrics.
 

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Honestly neither Madonna nor Mariah has done anything outside of Pop music.
Gospel: Fly Like A Bird, I Wish You Well, Make It Happen, etc. (Mariah)

Country: Don't Tell Me (Madonna) Right To Dream (Mariah)

Jazz: Sooner or Later (Madonna) Sublte Invitation (Mariah)

Folk: Madonna-American Life Album

R&B: Literally Mariah's whole catalog, Madonna-Bedtime Stories, Erotica

Electronica/Trip Hop: Ray of Light (Madonna)

Disco: Glitter & Confessions on A Dance Floor

Funk: Mariah-Glitter

Latin- Madame X

Christmas: AIWFC-(Mariah) Santa Baby-Madonna

Rock: Madonna
 

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Gospel: Fly Like A Bird, I Wish You Well, Make It Happen, etc. (Mariah)

Country: Don't Tell Me (Madonna) Right To Dream (Mariah)

Jazz: Sooner or Later (Madonna) Sublte Invitation (Mariah)

Folk: Madonna-American Life Album

R&B: Literally Mariah's whole catalog, Madonna-Bedtime Stories, Erotica

Electronica/Trip Hop: Ray of Light (Madonna)

Disco: Glitter & Confessions on A Dance Floor

Funk: Mariah-Glitter

Latin- Madame X

Christmas: AIWFC-(Mariah) Santa Baby-Madonna

Rock: Madonna

All of that is Pop music. It might have hints of other genres but its foundation is pop music. Very few artist actually cross over genres. He are rare ones. Both Mariah and Madonna could be called experimentative in their sounds but their experiments are still Pop based.

True Examples of singers in different Genres

Aretha: Soul/R&B



Aretha: Jazz




Whitney Houston: Pop



Whitney Houston Gospel:
 

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Mariah by far. I love Madonna, but her and Gaga have some of the cringiest, most simplistic lyrics I've ever heard. Janet is a bit better than them lyrically, but she's not on Mariah's level.
 

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MARIAH:

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“Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion
Baby, come and get it , let me get you what you need”

Honourable mention for our late Whitney:
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“ If six of y'all went out
Then four of you were really cheap
'Cause only two of you had dinner
I found your credit card receipt“
 

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Mariah is the best lyricist here:

"And then you casually walked into the room
And I was twisted in the web of my desire for you
My apprehension blew away, I only wanted you
To taste my sadness as you kissed me in the dark"

- The Roof

"When glory days turn to stormy nights
You must have been so petrified
Didn't you, didn't you feel so cold
You against the world in a losing fight
Captive of your demons inside
So you sought an enemy
Like times before to mock ignorantly (he lives in you, you know it's true)
(But the Lord said love, love your enemy so just)
Take heed to the word it's time
Check Proverbs 19:29
Don't cry"

- I Wish You Well

"Well I guess I'm trying to be
Nonchalant about it
And I'm going to extremes to prove
I'm fine without you
But in reality I'm slowly losing my mind
Underneath a disguise of a smile
Gradually I'm dying inside
Friends ask me how I feel
And I lie convincingly
'Cause I don't want to reveal
The fact that I'm suffering
So I wear my disguise
'Til I go home at night
And turn down all the lights
And then I break down and cry"

- Breakdown

"Somehow I know that
There's a place up above
With no more hurt and struggling
Free of all atrocities and suffering
Because I feel the unconditional love
From one who cares enough for me
To erase all my burdens and let me be free to

Fly like a bird, take to the sky
I need you now Lord, carry me high
Don't let the world break me tonight
I need the strength of you by my side
Sometimes this life can be so cold
I pray you'll come and carry me home"

- Fly Like A Bird

Her pen game is...different to the other ladies here.

Janet is the GOAT female performer though and her catalogue is perhaps the best of the past 40 years.
Also to add to mariahs list Fourth of July
So starry eyed (so starry eyed)
On the flowery hillside
Breathless and fervid
Amid the dandelions
As it swept over me
Like the wind trough the trees
I felt you sigh with a
Sweet intensity and baby

And underneath the stars
One summer night
We ran away for a while
Laughing we hurried beneath the sky
To an obscure place to hide
That no one could find
And we drifted to another state of mind
And imagined I was yours and you were mine
As we lay upon the grass
There in the dark
Underneath the stars
Underneath the stars
Weak in the knees
Wrapped in the warm gentle breeze
So shy a bundle of butterflies
Flush with heat of desire
On a natural high
As we drifted to another place in time
And the feeling was so heady and sublime
As I lost my heart in you
There in the dark
Underneath the stars
 

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Mariah is the best lyricist here:

"And then you casually walked into the room
And I was twisted in the web of my desire for you
My apprehension blew away, I only wanted you
To taste my sadness as you kissed me in the dark"

- The Roof

"When glory days turn to stormy nights
You must have been so petrified
Didn't you, didn't you feel so cold
You against the world in a losing fight
Captive of your demons inside
So you sought an enemy
Like times before to mock ignorantly (he lives in you, you know it's true)
(But the Lord said love, love your enemy so just)
Take heed to the word it's time
Check Proverbs 19:29
Don't cry"

- I Wish You Well

"Well I guess I'm trying to be
Nonchalant about it
And I'm going to extremes to prove
I'm fine without you
But in reality I'm slowly losing my mind
Underneath a disguise of a smile
Gradually I'm dying inside
Friends ask me how I feel
And I lie convincingly
'Cause I don't want to reveal
The fact that I'm suffering
So I wear my disguise
'Til I go home at night
And turn down all the lights
And then I break down and cry"

- Breakdown

"Somehow I know that
There's a place up above
With no more hurt and struggling
Free of all atrocities and suffering
Because I feel the unconditional love
From one who cares enough for me
To erase all my burdens and let me be free to

Fly like a bird, take to the sky
I need you now Lord, carry me high
Don't let the world break me tonight
I need the strength of you by my side
Sometimes this life can be so cold
I pray you'll come and carry me home"

- Fly Like A Bird

Her pen game is...different to the other ladies here.

Janet is the GOAT female performer though and her catalogue is perhaps the best of the past 40 years.

RIGHT. None of these other ladies are coming close to Mariah lyrically. I was literally thinking of the song "Breakdown" when I saw this poll. That's one of my favorite songs by her.
 

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QUEEN , MADONNA.!? , 100% AF PERIOD SHE A BADDIE BAD b!tch QUEEN OF POP
 

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I never heard anyone say Janet albums sound alike. I love Mariah, but her albums do sound alike.
 

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The Queen of Pop Madonna, for the diverse catalogue of songs she’s written/co-written
 

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