I think that when it gets to the point where the songs were written, produced, whatever by a whole range of different people and the "artist" credited for the song is merely performing it, they are no longer truly an artist. I have a lot of issues with this. A few artists I used to really love have become quite mainstream and have all of their songs written for them, all they really do is perform them. In which case I would identify them as a performer, rather than an artist.
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