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Hän ei ainoastaan sanoita ilmiömäisiä lauluja, vaan myös suunnittelee koreografiat.

Hän ei ainoastaan sanoita ilmiömäisiä lauluja, vaan myös suunnittelee koreografiat.
She not only writes lyrics for phenomenal songs but also designs the choreographies.
From Lesson 406:Not only... but also (ei ainoastaan... vaan myös)·Finnish

Questions & Answers about Hän ei ainoastaan sanoita ilmiömäisiä lauluja, vaan myös suunnittelee koreografiat.

Does the ei in ei ainoastaan conjugate like a normal negative verb?
Yes, it must agree with the subject. Because the subject is hän (she), we use ei ainoastaan. If the subject were "we", it would be emme ainoastaan, and for "I", it would be en ainoastaan.
Why is sanoita in its root form, while suunnittelee has a third-person ending?
Sanoita is in the connegative form because it sits in the grammatically negative first clause governed by ei. However, the second clause introduced by vaan myös (but also) is a positive statement, so its verb suunnitella takes the normal positive third-person singular ending to become suunnittelee.
Why is the object koreografiat in the nominative plural (ending in -t) rather than the partitive?
Because it is the object of the positive verb suunnittelee and represents a specific, completed whole ("the choreographies"). Plural total objects in positive sentences take the nominative plural -t ending. If the second verb were also negative, it would force the partitive.
How is the adjective ilmiömäisiä constructed?
It is built from the noun ilmiö (phenomenon) and the suffix -mäinen, which means "-like" or having the characteristics of something. This forms the base adjective ilmiömäinen (phenomenal), which is inflected here in the partitive plural to match lauluja.

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