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Ryan T "Beyoncé doesn't need hits -- she IS the hit"
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Were you surprised that she got so personal on her new album Lemonade?
There is nothing she could do in 2016, or moving forward, that would surprise. She’s super-savvy, super-talented and she’s surrounded by the right people. She’s making the right moves at the right times. And she’s killing it.
She hasn’t just done music, what she’s doing now transcends music—she’s creating culture. I always say one of the most dangerous things is for an artist to believe they’re the hit and not the song—the song is what got you here. In super-supremely rare instances, artists themselves become the hit. Beyoncé is officially the hit. Adele is the hit. The rest of us still need to write the hits, one after another.
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He also talks about "Halo" and "Already Gone" similarities + working with Bey again in the future.
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You spoke about never duplicating past hits. Kelly Clarkson claimed in 2009 you reused the same music for her song “Already Gone” as you did for Beyoncé’s “Halo.” What happened?
What happened was, “Halo” was written in the key of C, but when Beyoncé recorded it she dropped it to A or A-minor. She dropped it into the same key as Kelly’s song. But my original demo was a different key, different tempo, different chord changes. There are only 12 notes in a scale, so all of us writers are dealing with the same 12 notes.
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Is it flattering that Beyoncé still closes her live shows with “Halo”?
I’ll always love that song. I’ve been asked to rewrite that song for a number of artists, and I’d love to do another one like that with only her. Beyoncé’s gone in a different direction, musically, but if she was ever like, “Screw it, I want to do a gigantic pop record,” I’m a phone call away. She’s the only person I would ever [do that for]. I’ve not done anything else that sounds like that since then.
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He really hit the nail right on the head with that answer. It's so true.
Ahhh, my ****ing fave.
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she built herself a huge name that dosen't need a hit to sell albums
