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‘What You Think About Me Is None of My Business’
Diane Warren has a reputation for being tough. It’s how she got so many chart-topping songs to exist.
Behind her chair is a shelf arrayed with several items that reflect her personal ethos — there are two statues of hands flipping the bird, a service call bell labeled “Shut the Fuck Up,” and a trucker hat that says “Don’t Be a Little Bitch.” She shows a visitor a new addition — a mug a friend had gifted her the night before, a pretty ceramic number with her favorite four-letter word spelled out in teeny letters designed to be revealed when you finish your coffee. You’d approached Lady Gaga about recording that song for the 2015 documentary The Hunting Ground, about sexual assault on American college campuses, after you heard that she’d been on Howard Stern talking about being raped as a teenager. A former protégée, Chanaaz Mangroe, filed a federal civil suit against him in 2024, alleging that The-Dream told her he would make her the next Beyoncé or Rihanna only to entangle her in an abusive relationship that included forcing her to have sex and strangling her.
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