Paloma Faith: ‘Diane Warren calls me c*nt’
By Ben Kelly
Paloma Faith has revealed that legendary American songwriter Diane Warren has an unusual term of endearment for her.
Warren, purveyor of all-time classic power ballads including Cher’s If I Could Turn Back Time, LeAnn Rimes’ How Do I Live and Celine Dion’s Because You Loved Me, was keen for Faith to record one of her songs for her new album.
“She rings me up and calls me c*nt!” Faith recalls in an interview in the new issue of Attitude. “She is amazing as a person, but she has the foulest mouth out of anyone I’ve ever met. She’s mental but in a nice way.”
Faith, who is on course for the Top Ten this weekend with new single Can’t Rely On You, continues: “When we first met she said ‘I’ve got this song, and I think you’re the only person in the world that could sing it because you’ve got the right level of tragedy’, and I said sorry, I don’t really sing songs written by other people.
“Then on Boxing Day I was with my friends and she called me up and went ‘Hey c*nt. Christmas is over, back to work!’ and I said ‘Diane, no, it’s Boxing Day, don’t you have a life?’ and she said ‘No. Now I’m gonna play you this song, you asshole, and you better not hang up.’
Faith then proceeded to admit that Warren had been right all along.
“She played it down the phone, and when she was done I just said ‘F*ck you Diane Warren…of course I’m going to do it’. It’s an amazing song, that I probably couldn’t have written myself. But I should have!” Faith explained.
Faith went on to record Warren’s song, Only Love Can Hurt Like This, and it appears on her forthcoming album A Perfect Contradiction, which is released on March 10.
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