Diane Warren was feeling the rhythm of the night time.
After receiving her 17th Oscar nomination on Thursday, the critically-acclaimed songwriter, 69, is reflecting on simply how particular this second was.
“It’s always exciting. I never lose sight of that,” Warren solely informed The Post whereas on the Los Angeles screening of “The Gray House” on Thursday. “It never gets old.”
Diane Warren at The Los Angeles Screening Of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Gray House.” Admedia Photo / SplashNews.com
As for what the famous person was feeling going into nomination day, she confessed: “Nervousness. You never know what’s going to happen. And this is the first time I wrote a song for a movie about me. It’s my documentary ‘Relentless.’ To write a song, ‘Like, what kind of song do I write?’ And I feel like I really wrote a great song.”
“It’s called ‘Dear Me.’ Kesha sings it,” detailed Warren, “It’s basically, if you could talk to your younger self, what would you say? Your messed up young yourself that feels like it’s the end of the world and you’re telling you it’s going to be okay. And that’s the song I wrote. I’m really excited.”
In anticipation for the Oscar bulletins, the hitmaker revealed she was “up all night.”
Drake Milligan, Diane Warren, Morgan Freeman at Prime Video’s “The Gray House” screening on Jan. 22, 2026. Admedia Photo / SplashNews.com
“The documentary is up for a Grammy as well,” Warren gushed. “So one’s up for a Grammy and the songs up for the Oscars, how cool is that?”
It’s no secret the Golden Globes winner has an ear for the humanities, and he or she knew Kesha can be the right match to sing “Dear Me.”
“So, when I do a song for a movie, I’m a casting director. The artist has to be authentic to the movie and authentic to the song and of course, be able to sing it,” Warren defined. “I had a rough childhood and I thought, ‘Okay, the person is going to have to sing the song.’ I’ve know Kesha for years, and I know she’s had a rough time of it, and I knew that she’d be able to relate and it would resonate with her.”
Diane Warren talks with the New York Post’s Alexandra Bellusci. Page Six
The pop star, 38, was engrossed in a 10-year authorized battle, till 2023, after Dr. Luke filed a defamation lawsuit towards Kesha following her claims that he “sexually, physically, verbally, and emotionally abused [her] to the point where [she] nearly lost her life” in 2005.
The pair ended up settling earlier than trial.
“Only God knows what happened that night,” Kesha wrote in an Instagram assertion on the time. “As I always said, I cannot recount everything that happened. I am looking forward to closing the door on this chapter of my life and beginning a new one. I wish nothing but peace to all parties involved.”
Diane Warren and singer Kesha attend PETA’s thirty fifth Anniversary Party at Hollywood Palladium on September 30, 2015.
Meanwhile, together with referring to the tune, Warren additionally raved concerning the chart-topping star’s vocal capacity.
“I also knew she’s one of the best singers I’ve ever heard and people maybe can’t tell from some of the records – they are great records – but you can’t tell what she can do vocally,” she recounted to The Post. “And I knew it, and I had her come over to the studio, I played it, she started sobbing and I knew. She just sang the s–t out of it.”
And for Warren, an Oscar nomination for this observe specifically is “so unique.”
A shot from Diane Warren’s doc, “Diane Warren: Relentless.” Greenwich Entertainment
Diane Warren in her documentary. Greenwich Entertainment
“It’s a movie about me, but the song, when I do a song right, it’s not just about me or just about a movie. ‘Because You Loved Me,’ when I wrote that for ‘Up Close and Personal,’ then it got a whole life of its own outside of it. This song I wrote to my younger self, but everybody has a younger self that they could be singing this to.”
“It could be two weeks ago as a younger self,” Warren mused. “When you think like, ‘Oh, I’m not going to get out of this. I feel terrible. What am I going to do?’ And now you’re going back and telling that young girl or young boy or whoever you are, a younger person, it’s going to be okay. And so that’s what ‘Dear Me’ is about – it is going to be alright.”
The 1996 romantic drama “Up Close and Personal” starred Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Diane Warren wins Best Original Song on the 78th Golden Globes in 2021. NBCU Photo Bank by way of Getty Images
Warren was nominated for Best Original Song on the 1997 Academy Awards and Grammys.
She ended up nabbing the Grammy award.
Warren additionally took house a Golden Globe in 2011 for her hit observe “You Haven’t Seen The Last of Me” from “Burlesque” and once more in 2021 for “Io Sì (Seen)” from “The Life Ahead.”
Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Redford in “Up Close and Personal.” ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
The icon additionally walked away from the 2016 Emmys with a trophy for her track “Til It Happens to You” from “The Hunting Ground.”
Warren has not but received an Oscar.
Looking again at her upbringing, and reflecting on her documentary, Warren is aware of precisely what she would inform her youthful self.
Diane Warren arrives on the Pre-Grammy Gala held at The Beverly Hilton on February 4, 2023. Variety by way of Getty Images
“I was a little angry kid and I probably would have said to f–k off!”
After writing songs for among the prime performers, together with Celine Dion, Aerosmith, Cher, Whitney Houston and Beyoncé, Warren isn’t sure who would nonetheless be on her bucket checklist.
“I’m lucky enough to write songs for so many great artists, so there’s not one [in particular],” she admitted.
But if a sure star does come to thoughts: “I will get back to you!”
