Yep, and of course all the songwriters from the 70s-80s paved the way for David Gray/Damien Rice who at the same time paved it for the newest generation. the key album in here is David Gray White Ladder which was like the best selling in the UK in the early 00s. Record companies realised that a singer-songwritter could sell well and they started looking for a similar thing like crazy and most of the time they came up with fake manufactered artists which put zero soul in their music but sell well because they come with the songwritter tag attached. That's what IMO Zane Lowe was talking about which I believe it's 100% true
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