Many hands make bonafide and groundbreaking projects when creative minds collide. If Beethoven was alive today, he would have teamed up with Nas and Alicia Keys for the most groundbreaking collabs in history, but alas, they had to settle for the sample.It can be daunting to wear your art on your sleeve and share a vulnerable part of your musical process, but when two musicians are in sync the results are like fireworks. (Ok I may have just understood the deeper meaning of Nsync’s band name 20 years later).

History is laden with the iconic merging's of our dreams

The Rat Pack, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Symphony and Metallica, Mick Jagger and Bowie, Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen, Kanye West, and the fifty other artists featured on "All of the Lights." The list goes on longer than the 24-hour music video collab for "Happy."

Here are 15 reasons why collaborative songwriting is a great idea:

1. It’s nice having someone to finish your sentences when you can't find the right words (or lyrics). Run DMC: “She told me to?”Aerosmith: "Walk this way, talk this way!”

2. Gain confidence from sharing a work in progress during its raw makings.

3. When writer's block shows up, you’ll have somewhere to turn for a new perspective and fresh ears.

4. Complement each other's sound in the same genre like PJ Harvey and Nick Cave and carve your own little niche of haunting, mirror image, alt-rock.

5. More hands help keep a project moving efficiently because you both don’t want to waste each other's time. - "You have as many hours in a day as Beyonce," or something like that. And she was definitely a collaborative effort.

6. You’ll have someone to hold you accountable when you need a push to be creative.

7. Learn from each other’s techniques and skills.

8. Turn your art into song and vice versa. Poets like Jim Morrison, Patti Smith, and Bob Dylan made the crossover into performance because they felt the need to further express themselves. They formed bands, and alternative music projects and worked on lyrics with countless fellow musicians.

9. Collaboration will introduce you to a whole new fan base.

10. Give each other's sound a new dimension like Pharrell, Daft Punk and Nile Rodgers lent their iconic sounds to the track "lucky" to create a classic.

11. Most successful artists are a collaborative effort - just check the Billboard top 20.

12. Draw on each other's experiences for inspiration.

13. Cement your creative circle and branch out. - Thanks to Andy Warhol’s insistence, we have The Velvet Underground and Nico.

14. The focus is on creating and sharing; instead of insecurities and doubts - because we go to therapy or our mum's place for that.

15. You’ll have someone to say YES to a great idea that you may have benched.