NYT Mag Critics Fire Back With Insufferable Smugness After Internet Trashes Their ‘Greatest Songwriters’ List

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When The New York Times Magazine (NYT) put out a list of “The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters” in April, they were met with swift backlash. 

Some online commenters took issue with the omission of names like Billy Joel, Tom Waits, Trent Reznor, and Jason Isbell. Others took issue with the inclusion of Bad Bunny and Young Thug.  

“Hahaha. This is ridiculous. Who are some of these people?  Makes no sense. Where’s Billy Joel, Jeff Tweedy, Jason Isbell, Steve Earle, James Taylor, Jackson [Browne], David Byrne…. Young Thug?!? What a joke. Dude has a couple (great!) songs. Mariah [Carey] is a songwriter? She doesn’t wake up everyday and write. Also, to make a list like this and just put Bob Dylan on it someplace is silly. There is Dylan, a long, long gap, and everyone else,” reads a comment from a reader that accompanies 6,000 other comments. The comment received 1,500 recommendations from other readers.

Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” opens with these lines:

“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief “There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”

“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief

“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth

None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”

Bad Bunny’s “Tití Me Preguntó”........

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