They loved it and instantly said they wanted to do it. I sent it to them and they flipped on it. What I did was foolishly say to Leona's camp, 'I have it on hold for another A-list artist and I'm pretty sure they'll take it, but if they don't, I just want to know if you like it enough to consider it. So sometimes you have to pull the whole, 'Well, I'm going to get someone else on it', to prove a point. When you have a song as special as 'Halo', you don't want anyone else to sit on it. I thought this would be a brilliant first single for Leona, which it would have. What happened was that Beyoncé waited long enough to record that song that I had no communication with her and didn't know if she was going to do it or not. That was never the case, I'm putting that rumour to bed right now. The writter of the song said: "There was this huge scandal that originally 'Halo' was meant to go to Leona. Alana from Abingdon, MdActually it wasn't written for Lewis.Wendy Bae from Abuja,nigeriaIt's a lovely song.This led to some rumors that the song was written for Lewis, which Tedder and Bogart denied. The song went "on hold" for Beyoncé, which meant had the rights to it, but when she took a while to record it, Tedder, who wrote " Bleeding Love," told Leona Lewis' management that Lewis could have it if Beyoncé passed. They sent the demo to Jay Brown at Roc Nation (Jay-Z's label/management company), who begged them not to give the song to anyone else, since he thought it was perfect for Beyoncé. Tedder came up with some angelic keyboard parts and they quickly had their song.
Bogart says the song was intended for Beyoncé, and they wrote it thinking about what was going on in her life and her relationship with Jay-Z.īogart is a big fan of Ray LaMontagne, who has a song on his 2004 debut album called "Shelter." Bogart thought about expressing that same sentiment - being there for someone and being an encompassing halo - in a song for Beyoncé. As Bogart explained to NPR, the pair went into Tedder's home studio and wrote "Halo" in three hours. In the summer of 2008, Bogart visited his friend Tedder, who was laid up at home after rupturing his Achilles tendon on tour with OneRepublic. This song, which describes a love that is so phenomenal that it is heavenly, was written by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder and Evan "Kidd" Bogart, a prolific songwriter and the son of Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart - other songs he has co-written include " Take You There" for Sean Kingston and " S.O.S.
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