Earlier this week hit songwriter Heather Bright made headlines when she let slip in an interview that Justin Bieber faked his writing credit on “Somebody to Love”, and that other artists like Kanye West and Rihanna were taking publishing money for songs they didn’t actually write themselves. Now an entry from Heather’s personal blog is gaining attention due to comments regarding Britney Spears, who just used one of Heather’s songs “Trouble for Me” on her new album Femme Fatale.

Rather than call out Britney like Heather did with some other artists, she instead praises the pop princess for her honesty in not taking credit for other people’s work.

The media is talking trash about how Britney didn’t write any of the songs on her album… HELLO! Wake up everybody! NONE OF THESE ARTISTS WRITE THEIR OWN SONGS!!!!!! (there are a few exceptions… lady gaga, will.i.am/BEP, chris brown is starting to write a lot of his own stuff…ummmm… and now I’m running out of artists). Anyway… here’s my thing… and I feel VERY passionate about this issue. Britney could have come to me, like all these other A-list artists, and said…

“Hey, you wanna be on my album? I’m gonna need writing credit for that song AND part of your publishing even though I didn’t write anything! And then I’m gonna go on tour and gross $150 million in ticket sales and not give you any of that, even though I’m performing your song!”

I could rattle off a laundry list of artists who I’ve had that conversation with! And I’m on the other end like… “Oh okay… so you wanna rape me, but just with the tip?!” *Prince side eye* Britney’s one of the few artists I’ve worked with who didn’t try to take something that wasn’t hers. In my experience, from a business standpoint, her entire team is nothing less than a bonafide class act! If I ever have another song that she wants and another artist happens to want the same song… Britney will get it EVERYTIME! Why? Because she’s honest! And she treats her writers and producers with respect and dignity. An artist is nothing without a hit song… and a hit song is nothing without the right artist. It looks like the question I posed earlier just found its answer… maybe this is why 12 years later she’s STILL at the top!

Hmm, maybe that’s why Britney’s music is always so good while these other dishonest artists stay releasing mediocre messes!

It’s refreshing to see somebody behind-the-scenes spilling the truth to the public — in many cases, songwriters stay silent out of fears that they’ll be blacklisted. Let’s hope that Heather sticks to her word — when producer Soundz let slip that Beyonce takes a whopping 20% publishing for her music, even if she doesn’t write it, the backlash was so severe that he was forced to issue an apology and retract his words.

But at least we now know Beyonce, Kanye, and Justin Bieber are three artists trying to pull the wool over our eyes.