Although Warren preferred to work alone on her songs like “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”, “Un-Break My Heart” and “If I Could Turn Back Time”, she was not bluffing by saying that she admires Beyoncé as an artist. Just days ago, Warren tweeted that “I Was Here,” which she wrote and Beyoncé released in 2011, was one of her favorites.
In 2021, Warren told Rolling Stone what it was like working with Beyoncé on this song. Once Beyoncé heard it, she immediately went to the studio to record it, and Warren said she thought it sounded perfect. But Beyoncé wanted to record it again to make it even better.
“And that’s a difference, by the way, between a great artist and not a great artist,” Warren told Rolling Stone. “I mean, that’s why she’ll be here forever.”
