It had now been eight years since their last top ten single, What It Takes, from the album Pump. They ’d come mighty close, with Angel, Janie’s Got A Gun and Love In An Elevator all having made the US top five, but by the summer of 1998, a number one hit was seemingly slipping further away from their grasp.ĭespite the Nine Lives album selling by the boatload, none of the singles from it had managed to crack the Top 20. Although they had a catalogue packed with career-defining classics, they were yet to score a number one single in the US. She was named ASCAP’s pop songwriter of the year six times, for songs including “Un-break My Heart” for Toni Braxton, “Because You Loved Me” for Celine Dion, and “For You I Will” for Monica.But one thing still eluded them.She’s had SEVEN different hits on Billboard’s singles chart by seven different artists… AT THE SAME TIME.She’s won SIX academy awards for songs she’s written, like “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” for Aerosmith, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” for Starship, and “How Do I Live” for LeAnn Rimes.What left me really surprised was how accomplished Diane Warren, this musician and songwriter I had honestly never heard of, was. Aerosmith made a demo, the label loved, the movie studio loved it, it got produced, and the rest is history. The label knew this song was important, and the executive admitted he was curious to hear the song performed by a rock band. The label executive noted that the song had actually been eyemarked for a different artist (whom they didn’t name) as a solo female piano ballad (it wouldn’t surprise me if it would have been Monica). The executive was really excited about one song in particular, “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” written by… Diane Warren. The band was used to writing their own music, but time was running out to get the ball rolling for the song.
One of their label executives played them a couple “rough drafts” that had been written by other songwriters. They said they got together in the studio to write the yet-unnamed song for the soundtrack, but had been so burnt out promoting Nine Lives that they were creatively very spent and had a hard time coming up with anything. The band had recently released their Nine Lives album, which was doing well commercially, and they had been very active promoting and touring supporting it. While Armageddon was being produced in 19, Aerosmith was slated to produce a heart-warming power-ballad for the film’s soundtrack, which made sense since the movie was lead singer Steven Tyler’s daughter Liv’s first major starring role. This is Diane Warren, a name I bet you probably have never heard before.
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