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Shortly after stealing the Golden Globe from Kirsten Dunst for her performance in American Horror Story: Hotel, Lady Gaga was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. “Til It Happens to You,” from The Hunting Ground, a documentary about rape on college campuses across the country, is attributed to Gaga and Diane Warren, but Linda Perry — as in, 4 Non Blondes’ Linda Perry, of being-married-to-Darlene-from-Roseanne fame — is questioning whether the “Bad Romance” singer deserves the credit.
It’s an important distinction Perry is making, because the Oscar doesn’t go to the singer; it goes to the author (which is why Frozen‘s Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and not Idina Menzel, accepted the award for “Let It Go”). Gaga’s co-writer credit means she’ll be onstage on February 28, should “Til It Happens to You” upset Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall.”
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Not surprised at all. I am sure it’s full of singers who get false writing credit. Especially ones that are pumped up by the labels
Does Linda Perry think this is the scoop of the century? Most pop stars get credit on writing songs they clearly had no hand in writing. Somehow all the members of One Direction “co-write” all their songs, despite none of them playing instruments. Just one example.