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While most pop songs are known for their universality, Swift very much follows in the confessional singer-songwriter tradition of artists like James Taylorand Carole King, making each song distinctly her own. At the age of 16, she released her self-titled debutwith songwriting credits on every track and continued to hone her skills over the next decade. It’s easy to forget Taylor Swift’s songwriting pedigree since it seems like she’s always been the-larger-than-life pop star she’s known as today, but Swift is steeped in the Nashville songwriter tradition. Apparently, Sill wasn’t embraced by the industry because she was difficult to get along with, to which we all join hands and say, “Who cares?” 20: Taylor Swift All three of her albums have songs like that, among them “Lady-O,” a gorgeous Turtles single that featured only Sill’s tune and one acoustic guitar. In Judee Sill’s case, it wasn’t a TV commercial that did it it was the viral video (originally a BBC broadcast) of her at the piano singing “The Kiss,” a piece of otherworldly beauty. And let’s not forget that she also wrote “Over My Head,” the first hit from the self-titled album that relaunched the Mac as a mega-band.Ĭall her the female equivalent of Nick Drake: a late 60s/early 70s artist who got discovered long after the fact. On the Bare Trees album alone Christine McVie gets in one of Fleetwood Mac’s great lost blues-rockers, “Homeward Bound,” along with “Spare Me A Little Of Your Love,” which may well be the most gorgeous ballad in their catalogue. Stevie Nicks is often thought of as the greatest female songwriter in Fleetwood Mac, thanks to the success of “Dreams” and “Rhiannon,” but one of her bandmates has an even deeper catalogue. And for traditional tastes, there’s a killer power-pop song, the Marshall Crenshaw collaboration “All I Ever Wanted.” 24: Christine McVie

Her masterpiece, Electric Landlady, includes touches of hip-hop, Celtic, and Tropicália. MacColl got far more adventurous afterward, in a career that was sadly cut off with her accidental death in 2000. Her first success, “They Don’t Know” (a UK hit for Tracey Ullman), was one of the better girl-grouphomages of its time and her first album, Desperate Character, ranks as one of the great lost Rockpile-style albums.

Like many progressive songwriters, Kirsty MacColl started out doing retro-styled pop.