Australia: Montaigne reveals Diane Warren's song proposal as one of her potential ESC 2021 entries

Sunday, 03 January 2021

The Australian Eurovision 2021 hopeful, Montaigne, has revealed that the legendary songwriter Diane Warren, has proposed to her a song for Eurovision 2021.

Montaigne revealed the details during a broadcast on her Twitch channel @actualmontaigne in late December, saying:

"I had a call with a lady called Diane Warren.... she's one of the greatest songwriters that time has ever seen.........she kind of sent me a song to consider for Eurovision. She was 'I have this song for you, give it a shot, maybe it's good for Eurovision' and it is a hit! The song is immediately recognisable as a hit.

It's not super my..... like I don't think it's a lyric I would ever write and I don't know if it's a style that identify with. She said 'have it, give the production a shot, it might feel good if you make the production your own'.

But the thing is, I have this other song I wrote that I fucking love, I think it's so fun, it's like right up my alley, this style I've been trying to achieve for all of this year, basically. So I just have to work on both of them and see which I prefer for Eurovision... and work on other songs as well!"

Who is Diane Warren

Diane Eve Warren is an American songwriter, musician and record producer. She rose to prominence in 1983, and has since written songs for and co-written songs with multiple singers, as well as for several films.

Warren has written nine number-one songs and 32 top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Additionally, two of the top 13 hits in the Hot 100's 57-year history were composed by her. Warren's career was jump-started with the success in 1985 of "Rhythm of the Night" by DeBarge. In the late 1980s she joined forces with the UK music company EMI, where she became the first songwriter in the history of Billboard magazine to have seven hits, all by different artists, on the singles chart at the same time, prompting Peter Reichardt, the UK's Chairman of EMI Music Publishing, to call her "the most important songwriter in the world". She has been rated the third most successful female artist in the UK.

Warren has won a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three consecutive Billboard Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year, and has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards. She has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her UK success saw her win an Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors when she received the Special International Award in 2008. She controls rights over her music through her publishing company Realsongs.

Namely, some songs she is behind of, are Toni Braxton's 'Unbreak My Heart', Cher's 'If I Could Turn Back Time', Starship's 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now', LeAnn Rimes's 'Can't Find the Moonlight', Aerosmith's 'I Dont Want To Miss A Thing' and Celine Dion's 'Because You Loved Me'.

Warren has also contributed in Eurovision entry, collaborating with Andrew Lloyd-Webber on 'It's My Time' for the UK in 2009 which placed 5th.

More details on the Australian Eurovision 2021 entry are expected to go public the following weeks.

Australia In Eurovision

Australia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest five times since their debut at the 2015 contest in Vienna. Although Australia’s first participation in the 2015 contest was set to be a single time participation, the country was invited to take part in the following years successively. Last year after an agreement with EBU, Australia secured its participation up to 2023.

The country’s best result in the contest is Dami Im’s 2nd place in 2016. Australia has also finished in the top ten in three of its other appearances in the contest, with Guy Sebastian finishing fifth in 2015, and Isaiah Firebrace finishing ninth in 2017 . In 2019 , Kate Miller Heidke won the first national final to take place in the country and represented the land of Down Under at Tel Aviv with her song “Zero Gravity”. Kate achieved a 9th placing marking the country’s return back in the top 10.

In 2020 Montaigne won the country’s 2nd national final in history. Eurovision: Australia Decides 2020, held in Gold Coast , Queensland last February. Her entry “Don’t Break Me” achieved to top the jury voting and came second in the public vote .

Although her Eurovision journey never reached its destination in Rotterdam as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 outbreak, SBS invited the talented act back for Eurovision 2021.

News Source: Aussievision.net