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Hearing Cheryl's 'I Don't Care' breaks Bonnie McKee's heart :(

  • July 2, 2015
  • Brad O'Mance

Bonnie

Songwriter and part-time popstar Bonnie McKee has said that she didn't want to give 'I Don't Care' to Cheryl Ann Fernandez-Versini (née Tweedy, formerly Cole), and that it ori­gin­ally had a different title.

Here's a quote from her chat with Idolator in which she basically says exactly that:

"I wrote a song called 'I Don’t Care', that’s not what I called it actually. Cheryl Cole cut it and it went to number one in the UK last year. That was my 10th number one, so I’m grateful for it but I didn’t want to give it up. It was a song I had written for myself. They tweaked a couple lyrics and changed the title. The original title was 'Waking Up Diagonal'."

She then had a bit more to say about it actually:

"It’s the first line of the song. I just thought it was more inter­est­ing than 'I Don’t Care', which is such a boring title to me. When I hear that song it breaks my heart a little bit because it’s my story."

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