![]() “I’m not remotely complacent,” she says, seated in the comfy embrace of one of the luxurious armchairs in the screening room at her Hollywood studios. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, she said that she acknowledges her own motivation. Then she laughs at herself again: “You know, that’s a song I should listen to.” “Hopefully somebody will be working hard at their job or not giving themselves the respect or the love they deserve” and hear “Applause,” she laughs. Then it’s like being in a forest and you have built this great house, the chorus, but now you have to find your way out and back,” she says of writing the rest of the song. I wanted the song to reflect that.” She continued, “When I had the chorus, I knew I had something. “I wanted to write a song that could fit in all these various movies, which is basically just about empowerment. “They are pretty powerful stories,” said Warren. Image: Samuel Goldwyn Films / Courtesy Everett Collection Give it to yourself before you give it to someone else.” “Every now and then you have to just give yourself some f*cking applause, give yourself some love, give yourself some respect. ![]() “We tend to beat ourselves up a lot,” the veteran tune scribe said during a panel at Deadline’s Sound & Screen event. And you know, every now and then you just got to look in the mirror and go, ‘You know what I’m gonna, I’m gonna give myself some love. Living isn’t easy, every day is difficult for so many different reasons. We don’t give ourselves enough love and respect. “And the song also works outside of the movie as well, especially with everything that we’ve gone through, especially women, or everybody, but women because, you know, we don’t give ourselves enough applause. “I wanted to write a really empowering song,” Warren said to ABC 7. People like Jennifer Hudson, Eva Longoria,” she said. “What’s different about this movie is it’s not one movie, it’s seven movies, seven short films by women, actresses, and directors from all over the world. She loved the message behind the anthology film. Songwriting legend Diane Warren confessed that it just took about five days to write the lyrics for the song. What is the meaning of “Applause” by Diane Warren’s lyrics? Well simple enough, it’s all about female empowerment.
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