There are also very clear threads between that song and the songs you wrote for Lemonade. Did you come to Beyonc? with those songs or did you collaborate with her?Beyonc? is a scientist of songs. I?ve never seen anyone work the way she works. She definitely changes the song structures. She can take two songs, say, ?I like two lines, I like the melody then let me use that for a verse and a bridge and write the whole middle.? It?s more of a collaboration. You never know what she?ll like. I came to her with a bunch of songs and she was like, ?I like that verse, I like the idea.? But she definitely doesn?t take things as is, at least not from me. I came in on the Jack White song [?Don?t Hurt Yourself?] and helped finish it.
What did you think about people?s reactions to the ?Becky with the good hair? line in ?Sorry??I laughed, like this is so silly. Where are we living? I was like, ?What day in age from that lyric do you get all of this information?? Is it really telling you all that much, accusing people?
Did you and Beyonc? ever talk about the response?No. I don?t think she expected it. I saw her at her Formation tour. She had a pajama party; we laughed, we danced, we hugged it out. But I didn?t say much about it at the time because I wanted to give her space. The idea started in my mind but it?s not mine anymore. It was very funny and amusing to me to watch it spread over the world. If it?s not going to be me saying it, and the one person in the world who can say it is Beyonc?, I was f?ing happy. With Beyonc?, I feel like the songs we worked on were specifically for her. I didn?t have a dad growing up, so ?Daddy Lessons,? that was more of a fantasy for me. I felt like I was very strong in helping to raise my brothers and sisters but that really was her story.
You?d written that whole song before you worked with her?When I played it for her, I was like, ?This is one of my favorite songs.? She was like, ?This is my life.? I told her, ?You know what, take it, do what you want with it.? She went and re-produced it, she changed some words, added the bridge, it?s hers. She didn?t talk to me about her father. We didn?t go into details. I see their relationship in the media just like everyone else. I watched the HBO special just like everyone else. When you do work closely with an artist they touch on things and she touched on it. Beyonc??s been in our homes for nearly 20 years. I?ve loved her since she was in Destiny?s Child, so yeah I know her story.
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