Jean was upset when she learned that Beyoncé was releasing it as a single, but eventually, they reached an agreement. Inspired by the difficult break-up of a romantic relationship, the song was initially recorded by Jean, whose record company rejected it. "If I Were a Boy" was written by BC Jean and Toby Gad, who also handled its production alongside Beyoncé. "If I Were a Boy" is a song performed by American singer and songwriter Beyoncé from her third studio album I Am. “Everybody says to record everything, and for once everybody is right! Your therapy notes and diary entries are probably platinum-selling lyric material, but you have to be a certain kind of brave to make yourself sing them.An outstanding cover by the promising Dutch singer & artist Davina Michelle of the song "If I Were A Boy", originally sung by Beyoncé. So many girls were going through the same thing I was at that time and needed to hear those strong, empowering words. “You don’t realise a song has impacted so many people until you’re on the street and talk to people. “I wrote from such personal experiences, I never imagined that someone else would ever want to sing about my ex-boyfriend! So I was like, ‘Tell her, thank you,’ but they were like, ‘No, you don’t understand, she has to have this song!’ Then I got lots of calls from lots of people being very, very persuasive, and the next thing I know, Beyoncé is singing the song and I’m getting signed to Clive Davis’ label, J Records. Letra, traduo e msica de If I Were A Boy de Beyonc - If I were a boy / I think I could understand / How it feels to love a girl / I swear Id be a. Then I believe Toby had a meeting with Beyoncé, and when she heard If I Were A Boy she said, ‘That’s it! I want to record that right now.’īC Jean: “I never imagined that someone else would ever want to sing about my ex-boyfriend!” “The song wasn’t supposed to go to anybody, though – I wanted to sing it! Everyone wanted to sign me, but some people were trying to get it to their bigger artists because they knew it was such a smash. Toby was crying, going ‘Oh my God, this is a smash!’ so he definitely knew it was special. Then we recorded the demo that day, which I never changed – that was the one that Beyoncé eventually heard. “It was probably the easiest song I’ve ever written. We ran back to the studio and it was what I like to call a therapy session or diary entry, because I’d finally decided to open my heart and 20 minutes later we had a song! I’d eat the pizza and the popcorn.’ He was like, ‘That’s so weird, how would you sing that?’ He put a recorder in front of my mouth and I sang, ‘If I were a boy…’ just like that. I was trying to fit into my skinny jeans, watching my weight and all that stuff, and I was like, ‘Oh man, I wish were a boy right now. Toby carried around a recorder and any time I said something ‘weird’, as he called it, he’d record it. We were walking through Times Square on a lunch break.
“When eventually I did, it was a complete accident. I was 20 years old at this point, I was with my first boyfriend and things were going really well, but during the course of writing with Toby I found out my boyfriend had cheated on me. I flew to New York to work with him and wrote a handful of songs. I’d written lots of songs and used those demos to get to the next producer I wanted to work with, and met Toby Gad – he’d worked with The Veronicas and Fergie and had a couple of cool hits. US chart position: 3“I wanted to be a singer, so songwriting was just part of the deal for me. Verse 1 Em C G If I were a boy D Em C G Even just for a day D Em C Id roll out of bed in the morning G D Em C G And throw on what I wanted and go D Em C G Drink beer with the guys D Em C G D And chase after girls Em C Id kick it with who I wanted G D And Id never get confronted for it Em C G Cause theyd stick up for me.