Singer, songwriter and producer The-Dream, who collaborated with Queen Bey on Renaissance, chimed in to explain further. “Ok, it’s prob samples that add up the ammount of writerrs (sic).” “This isn’t meant as shade, I’m just curious,” she responded after the backlash hit the thread. “How can there be 24 writers on a song?” the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated writer of songs like Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time,” and Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” tweeted Monday.Īnd then hundreds chimed in with the answer: Because the song samples other copyrighted works, a rich tradition in American music stemming from the early days of hip-hop. Diane Warren felt the sting of Beyoncé’s BeyHive this week for asking the Twitterverse why a song on Act I of her new album, Renaissance, lists 24 writers in its credits.
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