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the talent that went into composing and creating Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is much greater than the Spice Girl's Wannabe.
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Depends on how you define "talent". If talent means having a rare skill developing extraordinarily memorable pop hook that still bounces around my brain after a brief mention even after years without actually hearing the song probably requires more of that rare skill talent than putting together a somewhat stale and generic formulaic crescendo style rock anthem. Stairway could be taught. Stairway had to be stilted up by the rest of LedZep. Wannabe is bigger than the band, stands alone, needs no context, and taps into a very pure form of memorable pleasure.