Shows scheduled from April 25-May 8 have been canceled or postponed. Tedder is expected to rejoin the band in time for their May 12 show at Shepherds Bush in London.
https://www.ticketnews.com/2008/05/injury-causes-onerepublic-to-cancel-shows/
You spoke about never duplicating past hits. Kelly Clarkson claimed in 2009 you reused the same music for her song “Already Gone” as you did for Beyoncé’s “Halo.” What happened?
What happened was, “Halo” was written in the key of C, but when Beyoncé recorded it she dropped it to A or A-minor. She dropped it into the same key as Kelly’s song. But my original demo was a different key, different tempo, different chord changes. There are only 12 notesin a scale, so all of us writers are dealing with the same 12 notes.
I have never in a million years sold the same track to different artists. Never will. I don’t give enough shits about the money, or having a hit, to do that. I’m too keenly aware of my reputation and the future of working with other artists to ever bastardize one song for another.
Nothing remotely similar has happened since, which I think speaks volumes to the fact that it didn’t even happen to begin with.
Is it flattering that Beyoncé still closes her live shows with “Halo”?
I’ll always love that song. I’ve been asked to rewrite that song for a number of artists, and I’d love to do another one like that with only her. Beyoncé’s gone in a different direction, musically, but if she was ever like, “Screw it, I want to do a gigantic pop record,” I’m a phone call away. She’s the only person I would ever [do that for]. I’ve not done anything else that sounds like that since then.
Were you surprised that she got so personal on her new album Lemonade?
There is nothing she could do in 2016, or moving forward, that would surprise. She’s super-savvy, super-talented and she’s surrounded by the right people. She’s making the right moves at the right times. And she’s killing it.
She hasn’t just done music, what she’s doing now transcends music—she’s creating culture. I always say one of the most dangerous things is for an artist to believe they’re the hit and not the song—the song is what got you here. In super-supremely rare instances, artists themselves become the hit. Beyoncé is officially the hit. Adele is the hit. The rest of us still need to write the hits, one after another.
http://www.newsweek.com/ryan-tedder-pops-earworm-maestro-taste-being-different-prince-beyonce-adele-464332
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Singer-songwriter Ryan Tedder has addressed claims that Beyonce credits herself as a writer in tracks she didn't pen, revealing she played an important part in writing her hit 'Halo'.
Tedder is best known as the frontman of OneRepublic, but is also a highly prolific songwriter, penning hits for the likes of Leona Lewis ('Bleeding Love'), Adele ('Rumour Has It'), and Beyonce.
Tedder has written two of Bey's biggest tracks, 'Halo'
, and 'XO' - so knows better than anyone how involved Beyonce is in the writing process.
Addressing claims Bey unfairly credits herself as a writer in tracks she didn't compose, Tedder told the Guardian: "I can't speak for all of the songs that she does but I'll say this: she does stuff on any given song that, when you go from the demo to the final version, takes it to another level that you never would have thought of as the writer.
"For instance, on Halo, that bridge on her version is completely different to my original one," he continued. "Basically, she came in, ditched that, edited it, did her vocal thing on it and now it's become one of my favourite parts of the song. The whole melody, she wrote it spontaneously in the studio. So her credit on that song stems from that."
-----------------http://www.gigwise.com/news/90438/Ryan-Tedder-discusses-rumours-Beyonce-takes-credit-for-songs-she-didn't-write
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popjustice interview (published on June,06 2008)
Do you have any emergency global Number One songs up your sleeve?
I would say yes. At any given point in time I have one or two songs for other people that I do believe are quite massive. I’d love to go on record right now with one of them but what I’ll say is that a massive artist just cut one of them and everyone’s freaking out on it. I told people I was sitting on a smash and now everyone’s gone nuts.
What’s the initial of the song title?
H. It’s one word.
Source: http://www.popjustice.com/interviewsandfeatures/ryan-tedder-interview/49876/#ixzz2dWwmLr4C
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Beyoncé’s hit single ‘Halo’ was not originally penned for Leona Lewis, songwriter Ryan Tedder has insisted. The One Republic frontman admitted that he only tentatively offered the track to Lewis after Beyoncé initially took a long time to record it. “There was this huge scandal that originally ‘Halo’ was meant to go to Leona. That was never the case,” he told Alex and Lucy on Key 103’s In:Demand.
“I’m putting that rumour to bed right now. That song was written for Beyoncé. What happened was that Beyoncé waited long enough to record that song that I had no communication with her and didn’t know if she was going to do it or not. I thought this would be a brilliant first single for Leona, which it would have. When you have a song as special as ‘Halo’, you don’t want anyone else to sit on it. So sometimes you have to pull the whole, ‘Well, I’m going to get someone else on it’, to prove a point.
“What I did was foolishly say to Leona’s camp, ‘I have it on hold for another A-list artist and I’m pretty sure they’ll take it, but if they don’t, I just want to know if you like it enough to consider it.’ I sent it to them and they flipped on it. They loved it and instantly said they wanted to do it. I was like, ‘Wait, wait, wait, no, it’s not free yet! It’s just in case.”
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a189416/tedder-halo-wasnt-written-for-leona.html
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I just want to put a rumor to rest, I was browsing through boards and noticed something. Here is a Quote from Ryan's interview -
So who’s getting your “A” material these days?
I’m working with Adele right now, who’s inspiring me like crazy. I hadn’t written a song in about a month, literally, until yesterday. The less I write, the better the songs are. When “Halo” came about, I hadn’t written a song in two months. Then two months after that I wrote “Battlefield,” and two months after that was “Already Gone.” When I don’t do a ton of writing, then typically the quality of the song is a lot better.
from ryan tedder interview
http://idolator.com/5316661/the-idolator-interview-ryan-tedder
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-She took out the soprano aand alto voices from the choir at the beginning.
-She used the beautiful piano melody more throughout the song.
-Dropped the 1st verse of the song an octive lower.
-Re did the backgound vocals for the chorus.
-Added more layers of vocals to the chorus when singing "Halo, Halo, Halo" she gave it waaaay more texture.
-Polished up the violins. took out synth on the begining. add string sound instead.
- While I like the 3rd verse, Beyonce beautifully used the instumentation for a better bridge along with her voice. She used it for her advantage, taking the melody of the piano, adding cellos in there and accomanying it with her voice. All leading up to a beautiful bridge that is nice and polishes as opposed to a couple seconds in a song that would of been waaaay too exagerated with the too fast vocals, the piano, the drums, background voices, extra voices that add the oooh's and aaaahs' as well as a dreadful climax. Beyonce took those elements and mixed them in a way where they compliment each other and they still stand out.
Original Demo by Ryan Tedder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvrLUpGDX30
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"The greatest singers each have their 'thing' that they do better than anyone else. Beyoncé's thing is taking a great song and making it an event. She adds her own personality and vocal prowess like a master chef adds the missing ingredient to his signature dish. Beyoncé brings that missing ingredient."
—Ryan Tedder, songwriter/producer and member of OneRepublic
Billboard
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Original Demo of HALO