Beyoncé song 'inspired by pizza'

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The singer who penned Beyoncé's hit single 'If I Were A Boy' has revealed that the song was inspired by pizza.

21-year-old BC Jean claimed that she wrote the lyrics to 'Boy' in 15 minutes after a conversation with producer Toby Goad.

"We were walking through Times Square, and I said: 'I wish I were a boy. That pizza smells really good, and I'm trying not to eat carbs, and I wish I were a boy so I didn't care'," she told The Hartford Courant.

"We went back to the studio, and he had a guitar part. We recorded it that day; it was so simple. I remember Toby looking at me and going: 'We just wrote a smash.' I thought he was crazy. I was like: 'Really?'"

Jean added that she now wants to record the song for her own album later this year. "It's an amazing compliment, but I was like: 'That's great, but it's going to be on my album!' And it can be on my album, too, I just didn't realize how it worked," she said.