I know all critics hate her often simplistic, 3 chord structure and hammy lyrics, but i love alot of her work


Steve Luthaker "lonely beat of my heart"
Mic Murphy "sleep with me"
Patti labelle "if u asked me to"
Michael bolton "time love and tenderness"
Ziggy marly "give a little love
Debarge "rhythm of the night"
Lisa stansfield and babyface "dream away"
starship "set the night to music"
bad english "the time alone with you"
milli vanilli "blame it on the rain"
michael w smith "i will be here for you"
chicago "chasin' the wind"
tommy page "whenever you close your eyes"


I know she has done tons more, anyone think of any? She may be a hack, but damn, she sure is good at what she does

I'd be interested to know how much that ruiner of pop music is worth

seriously, what the hell happened to the radio in these last 10-15 years???

http://www.musesmuse.com/...00539.html

Her first hit was Laurie Brannigan's, "Solitaire," in 1983. Since then, the artists who have recorded her songs read like a who's who in pop/rock. She's been voted ASCAP Songwriter of the Year 6 times, 4 times by Billboard Magazine, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Hits include "Rhythm of the Night" for DeBarge, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," for Starship, "I Learned From the Best," for Whitney Houston, "If I Could Turn Back Time" for Cher, "How Do I Live Without You" for Leann Rimes and "Unbreak My Heart" for Toni Braxton. For Celine, songs include "If You Asked Me To," and "Because You Loved Me." She's equally comfortable in rock, R&B, pop and country, from Eric Clapton to Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera to Reba McIntire.

According to an ABC News report, Diane’s catalog has an estimated worth of 500 million. Without actual comparisons, it doesn’t take much imagination to see that such a figure is easily comparable to the biggest moneymakers of all time in the music industry, from Elvis to the Beatles, from Madonna to Michael Jackson. By contrast, Diane is solely a writer. It is unknown if she has ever performed live or recorded her own CD. If not, what a gem that would be.

According to Julie Horton, V.P. of Diane's publishing company, Real Songs, Diane knocks out her tunes on an old Yamaha DX7 keyboard and a MPC-60 drum machine. That's enough to send shockwaves up any musician's spine.

For film, Diane will read scripts, watch dailies, or work off cue sheets, depending on what stage the film company approaches her.

Most of Diane's movie songs are re-released and become hits in the pop world. One of Aerosmith’s biggest hits is "Don't Want to Miss a Thing," for Armageddon, which also received an Oscar nomination and re-recorded by country artist Mark Chestnut. "Can't Fight the Moonlight" performed by LeAnn Rimes for the film Coyote Ugly, became a top 10 hit. She wrote four songs for the film. She wrote the TV theme for Enterprise, the first theme song for the Star Trek series. The band, Cult, recorded "Painted On My Heart" for Gone In Sixty Seconds. "Rhythm Of The Night" was re-recorded for Moulin Rouge (originally in the film, The Last Dragon). Pearl Harbor featured a monster hit, "There You'll Be," sung by Faith Hill.

One of the tunes Warren wrote for Celine, "Because You Loved Me," was in Up Close and Personal. Diane got a Grammy for that one, as well as Oscar and Golden Globe nomininations. Another Oscar/Grammy nominated tune, "Music Of My Heart," sung by *NSYNC and Gloria Estefan, appeared in Music of the Heart. That song won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Song from a Motion Picture. To date, Diane has been nominated for four Golden Globes, six Academy Awards, and nine Grammy's.

so to answer my own questions, she's worth half a billion dollars and she's almost singlehandedly responsible for ruining radio the last decade.

I didn't realize how bad it was until I researched her just now. Here's an excerpt from a blog slamming her - WOW. I don't normally take the Lord's name in vain but here it is - JESUS CHRIST! In all seriousness, I agree with the author when I say this list makes me physically ill. Y'all can laugh but she's killed a fair amount of happiness during my grind, probably yours too:

http://blogcritics.org/ar...093534.php



"A SMILE AS BEAUTIFUL AS YOURS" NATALIE COLE
"ALL I WANT IS FOREVER" JAMES "J.T." TAYLOR & REGINA BELLE
"ANY OTHER FOOL" SADAO WATANABE FEATURING PATTI AUSTIN
"BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME" CELINE DION #
"BLAME IT ON THE RAIN" MILLI VANILLI

"BLUE EYES BLUE" ERIC CLAPTON #4 ADULT CONTEMPORARY
"BY THE TIME THIS NIGHT IS OVER" KENNY G./PEABO BRYSON
"CALL ME GONE" PATTI LaBELLE
"CAN'T FIGHT THE MOONLIGHT" LeANN RIMES
"CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY" (MARIAH'S THEME) MARIAH CAREY

"COMPLETELY" MICHAEL BOLTON
"COULD I HAVE THIS KISS FOREVER" WHITNEY HOUSTON/ENRIQUE IGLESIAS
"DON'T TAKE AWAY MY HEAVEN" AARON NEVILLE
"DON'T TURN AROUND" ACE OF BASE
"DON'T TURN AROUND" ASWAD

"FAITH OF THE HEART" ROD STEWART
"FOR YOU I WILL" MONICA
"FROM THE HEART" ANOTHER LEVEL
"GIVE ME YOU" MARY J. BLIGE
"HAVE YOU EVER" BRANDY
"HOW DO I LIVE" LeANN RIMES
"HOW DO I LIVE" TRISHA YEARWOOD

"I COULD NOT ASK FOR MORE" EDWIN McCAIN
"I COULD NOT ASK FOR MORE" SARA EVANS
"I DON'T WANT TO LIVE WITHOUT YOUR LOVE" CHICAGO
"I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING" AEROSMITH
"I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING" MARK CHESNUTT
"I GET WEAK" BELINDA CARLISLE

"I LEARNED FROM THE BEST" WHITNEY HOUSTON
"I TURN TO YOU" CHRISTINA AGUILERA
"I WANT YOU TO NEED ME" CELINE DION
"I WILL BE HERE FOR YOU" MICHAEL W. SMITH
"I WILL GET THERE" BOYZ II MEN

"I WILL GET THERE" J-FRIENDS
"I'D LIE FOR YOU (AND THAT'S THE TRUTH)" MEAT LOAF
"I'LL BE" REBA McENTIRE
"I'LL BE YOUR SHELTER" TAYLOR DAYNE
"I'LL NEVER GET OVER YOU GETTING OVER ME" EXPOSE
"I'LL STILL LOVE YOU MORE" TRISHA YEARWOOD
"IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME" CHER
"IF YOU ASKED ME TO" CELINE DION

"IF YOU ASKED ME TO" PATTI LaBELLE
"JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES" CHER
"JUST TO HEAR YOU SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME" FAITH HILL & TIM McGRAW
"LIVE FOR LOVING YOU" GLORIA ESTEFAN
"LOOK AWAY" CHICAGO
"LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING" CHER

"LOVE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS" CELINE DION
"LOVE WILL LEAD YOU BACK" TAYLOR DAYNE
"MI PRIMER AMOR" CHAYANNE
"MISS ME SO BAD" SON BY FOUR
"MISSING YOU NOW" MICHAEL BOLTON
"MUSIC OF MY HEART" GLORIA ESTEFAN AND *NSYNC

"MY FIRST NIGHT WITH YOU" MYA
"NOT A DRY EYE IN THE HOUSE" MEAT LOAF
"NOTHING BROKEN BUT MY HEART" CELINE DION
"NOTHING'S GONNA STOP US NOW" STARSHIP
"PAINTED ON MY HEART" THE CULT
"PUEDES LLEGAR" VOCES UNIDAS
"QUIEN ERES TU" YURI

"QUAND J'AI PEUR DE TOUT" PATRICIA KAAS #1 BELGIUM
"REACH" GLORIA ESTEFAN
"REFUGIO DE AMOR" VANESSA WILLIAMS & CHAYANNE
"RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT" DeBARGE
"SAVING FOREVER FOR YOU" SHANICE WILSON
"SET THE NIGHT TO MUSIC" ROBERTA FLACK/MAXI PRIEST

"SET THE NIGHT TO MUSIC" STARSHIP
"SOLITAIRE" LAURA BRANIGAN
"SPANISH GUITAR" TONI BRAXTON
"SWEAR TO YOUR HEART" RUSSELL HITCHCOCK
"TAKE IT TO HEART" MICHAEL McDONALD
"THE ARMS OF THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU" XSCAPE

"THE ONE I GAVE MY HEART TO" AALIYAH
"THERE YOU'LL BE" FAITH HILL
"THROUGH THE STORM" ARETHA FRANKLIN & ELTON JOHN
"TIME LOVE & TENDERNESS" MICHAEL BOLTON
"UNBREAK MY HEART" TONI BRAXTON
"WHO WILL YOU RUN TO" HEART
"YOUR BABY NEVER LOOKED GOOD IN BLUE"

This list makes me physically ill. Out of 80+ songs, I like "Don't Turn Around," "Rhythm of the Night," and "Unbreak My Heart" - not a very good percentage. How can so much artery-clogging, over-produced, mind-numbing, relentless dung be squeezed out of one person?

The woman has been so consistent, so successful and so awful that she deserves to have her name associated with hideous, overblown pop ballads henceforth: we will call them "Warrens."

Damn, looking at all those corn driven hits, she puts burt bacharach to shame.

I hate "dont wanna miss a thing", and "un-break my heart" is every girls anthem it seems. As witnessed on many karoke nights i've been too.

Good thread! Diane is DEFINATELY one of the BEST pop songwriters.

blackguitaristz said:

Thanx. Surprised anyone responded (thanx to rudy too, good work). It occured to me that diane has written alot of hits, not only hits, but songs that, as u said, in the pop area, are at the top of the game.


As a guy who has had a fair share of bad relationships, and turn downs, diane's stuff gets to me, even if she is known for writing towards, as some might say, a more feminine perspective.

and "sleep with me" by mic murphy, is gorgeous. Didn't think diane had it in her to write a sexy pop slowjam

I have to laugh a little, you thanking me for all my "good work" when all night long at work I thought to myself, "I'm such an asshole for ruining that thread!"

I also have to chuckle at the Burt Bacharach comparison, as I really like him! I think his work with Dionne Warwick is just fantastic.

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