How I Wrote That Song 2015: Ester Dean - “What’s My Name?”

BMI held its annual pre-GRAMMY event, “How I Wrote That Song,” on February 7, 2015, at 1Oak in West Hollywood. The list of illustrious panelists included GRAMMY-nominated hip-hop magnate Rick Ross, GRAMMY-nominated scribe Ester Dean, GRAMMY-winning songwriter-producer David Hodges, multiplatinum GRAMMY-nominated producer Mannie Fresh and country music’s number-one-hit wordsmith Natalie Hemby.
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[@missmira1413]

Oh I love that she doesn't feel attached to her songs once sold. Unlike another famous songwriter who went in on an Artist he wrote for. It's so unprofessional and rude to do that! Then the masses are guessing what song it was and it's all just hateful. The same songwriter who wrote Beyoncé-Halo btw. He talked about how one artist basically butchered his song like bih you sold it get tf over it and move on

[@addictedtoprocrastination9986]

Ryan Tedder wasn't talking about an artist who butchered the song, he was talking about a producer. Since he's the writer he would be credited in the song, but he didn't want to because he didn't like it. That's all it was. In that interview he didn't even say the producer's name, and in fact said he liked many of his other work. Why are you so annoyed by it?

[@chloe41120]

Hhaha, I love her answer.

[@JZidor]

I met her in the airport so sweet

[@janicegregory1274]

Are you sure I can fit in your world

[@KCT-rc9qv]

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[@acharich]

loool *it's yours..!* 💀😂💀 - @Acharich

[@theactualtruth4951]

Yeah I can tell there's a lot of hurt behind her talking about giving away her songs by the way she words it and how the tone of her voice shifts. It's like she was told her voice wasn't good enough, yet it was. They kept her down to pass off songs to a singer who fit the image that the racist industry wanted to push. Now if they had actually invested time, money, and effort into developing Ester as a artist she would have skyrocketed if she kept everything she wrote. But they didn't want her to know that so they could control her and keep her pumping out songs for them.

[@heyyou7496]

If Ester was writing for herself what's my name, rude boy, s and m would've never been brought to light. She looks at riri n writes according to her vibe!

[@artistaccount]

Facts she would be bigger than beyonce

[@VonnieVonVonX2]

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