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[JosephBoone]

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Cheryl Fernandez-Versini may have won the British public over with last year's 'I Don't Care', but the song's writer is less impressed with how the track turned out.

Bonnie McKee wrote the song and gave it the title 'Waking Up Diagonal', but Cheryl's people made some changes once they got hold of it.

Speaking to Idolator, she said: "I wrote a song called 'I Don't Care', that's not what I called it actually. Cheryl Cole cut it and it went to number one in the UK last year.

"That was my 10th number one, so I'm grateful for it but I didn't want to give it up. It was a song I had written for myself. They tweaked a couple lyrics and changed the title.

"The original title was 'Waking Up Diagonal'. It's the first line of the song. I just thought it was more interesting than 'I Don't Care', which is such a boring title to me. When I hear that song it breaks my heart a little bit because it's my story."

McKee referred to the song again when asked if she has a least favourite song that she has written, saying that 'I Don't Care' didn't turn out the way it was supposed to.

"I mean the Cheryl Cole song was great, they did a good job with it, but it just wasn't the way I would do it. It really makes my skin crawl. I'm just like, 'This isn't how it's supposed to be'," she said.

'I Don't Care' became Cheryl's fifth UK number one single as a solo artist, and helped her become the first British female solo artist to score five chart-toppers.

Must admit, I'm glad it ended up in Cheryl's hands, one of her best songs still for me!