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I am convinced that producers go out with a company checkbook and standard boilerplate, find acts that have good songs, then buy the rights to those songs.
They then give the songs to larger pop artists and never credit the original artist because there is no need. They likely pay well for a decent song.
They do.
It's extremely rare that people like Taylor Swift get as big as she is from writing her own songs.
There are actual classes you can take on how to write pop songs, taught by people who made pop artists big.
They pay song writers to create songs.
One of the biggest examples of this for me was " even if it breaks your heart". I was pretty happy hearing a pop country song with decent lyrics, to find out it was written by Will Hoge and Eli Young Band bought the rights.