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dsiegel2275yesterday at 11:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

As a performer, sure.

But Dolly was 1000x the songwriter that Johnny Cash was.


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kstrausertoday at 2:41 AM

Let’s not get carried away. Dolly was brilliant, inarguably. But no one is 1000x the songwriter of Johnny Freaking Cash, who was also estimated to have written over 1,000 songs for himself and for others.

Let’s just agree that they’re both S-tier writers.

antonymooseyesterday at 11:45 PM

I’m no artist so I’m left to ask - how exactly is that metric determined?