Basically she came in, ditched that, edited it, did her vocal thing on it and now it’s became one of my favorite parts of the song. He went on: “For instance, on ‘Halo,’ that bridge on her version is completely different to my original one.
Talking about whether Beyoncé deserved writing credit on “Halo,” which again came to her more or less fully-formed, he said, “She does stuff on any given song that, when you go from the demo to the final version, takes it to another level that you never would have thought of as the writer.” Ryan Tedder, the OneRepublic frontman and red-hot songwriter for Leona Lewis (“Bleeding Love”), Adele (“Rumour Has It”), and Beyoncé (“Halo” and “XO”), said similar things to Ne-Yo. That’s writing.” In summary: “She put her spin on it.” “So yeah I gave her writer’s credit,” he continued.
She had, true to past behavior, been on a circuit giving interviews about when “I” wrote the song, sending steam out the ears of those in the industry who knew that it was written by Ne-Yo and then given to her.īut in a 2012 interview with radio show The Breakfast Club, Ne-Yo explained-shaking his head, and clearly in distress over the question-that the song he wrote and the song Beyoncé recorded were “two damn totally different songs, with all the harmonies and extra stuff that she put in there.” R&B star Ne-Yo famously wrote Beyoncé’s number one hit “Irreplaceable,” which Bey eventually received co-writing notices on. Some of it is intangible, and has to do with the feel of a song. If it’s a matter of muscling her way into the liner notes, how much does she-or any artist, for that matter-have to contribute before she earns the recognition? What kind of “writing” is she actually doing, if there’s this so-called open secret that she’s not doing much at all? “It means ‘licensing’ the song from another writer.” “‘Writing’ a song has new meaning,” he says. And, yep, Beyoncé also has a credit.Įxplanations for Beyoncé’s simultaneously prolific and questionable record as a songwriter-she receives a credit on nearly every original song she’s performed, but never the solo credit-range from the singer negotiating false attributions to, as Friedman suggests, taking credit for licensing a sample or individualizing a previously written song. “Writers just say no UNLESS it’s Beyoncé lol.”Ĭut to Ocean years later writing the song “I Miss You” for Beyoncé’s 4 album. “It’s a bad trend that artists try to muscle for credits on songs they had no part in writing,” he said. In a tweet that’s since been deleted, Frank Ocean echoed Perry’s comments. She is talented but in a completely different way.” But everyone knows the real truth about Beyoncé. Corrected for grammar: “Well haha um that’s not songwriting but some of these artists believe if it wasn’t for them your song would never get out there so they take a cut just because they are who they are. Perry’s response managed, somehow, to be both generous and biting. The rumblings turned into a bit of media uproar when legendary songwriter Linda Perry, the former frontwoman of 4 Non Blondes and hitmaker for the likes of Pink and Christina Aguilera, was asked in a Reddit Ask Me Anything a very pointed question about Queen B: “Linda, how do you feel about Beyoncé changing one word on a song and getting writing credit. Hip-hop producer Rich Harrison turned it into a sample. It was heavily sampled from a song written by Eugene Record, of the Chi-Lites, and recorded in 1969.
“‘Crazy in Love’ was really hard to write because there was so much going on… I mean, I had written-what?-seven, eight number one songs with Destiny’s Child, in a row?” But as Friedman wrote, Beyoncé didn’t technically write the song. As D’Addario points out, despite her use of “I,” there is not a single song over Destiny’s Child’s existence that she wrote herself.Ī 2005 Fox News piece by Roger Friedman put on blast another quote Beyoncé had given to Vanity Fair, again misusing the word “I.” “You know when I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control,” she said in a GQ cover story. Drake may laud his “really big team.” Beyoncé tends to laud… Beyoncé.ĭaniel D’Addario, then writing for Salon, chronicled this pretty thoroughly in a 2013 piece calling out all the times Beyoncé talked about “writing” songs that she, at best, co-wrote with limited contribution.
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