With Love (Hilary Duff song)

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"With Love"
Single by Hilary Duff
from the album Dignity
B-side"Play with Fire"
ReleasedFebruary 20, 2007 (2007-02-20)
Genre
Length3:03
LabelHollywood
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Nobles
  • Logic
Hilary Duff singles chronology
"Play with Fire"
(2006) 		"With Love"
(2007) 		"Stranger"
(2007)
European single cover
Music video
"Hilary Duff - With Love" on
YouTube

"With Love" is a song recorded by American recording artist Hilary Duff for her fourth studio album, Dignity (2007). It was written by Duff and Kara DioGuardi with the song's producers Vada Nobles and Julius "Logic" Diaz. According to Duff, the song is about having a "crazy job" but being kept "sane" by a lover. Musically, "With Love" has a dance-rock guitar throughout its hook while it presents more mature vocals by Duff in contrast to her previous works. The song was released as the second single from Dignity on February 20, 2007, by Hollywood Records.

"With Love" received positive reviews from

Hot Dance Club Play
chart. It was also able to reach numbers six and eight in Spain and Italy, respectively.

The "With Love" accompanying music video was directed by Matthew Rolston and doubles as the television commercial for Duff's fragrance With Love... Hilary Duff. It was filmed at City Hall in San Francisco, and features Kellan Lutz as Duff's love interest. It depicts Duff being followed by Lutz's character until they share a kiss towards its end. A separate version of the music video was produced for airing on Disney Channel and its online DXD service on the page for Radio Disney.[citation needed] Duff made a live performance of "With Love" at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards, where she also won the accolade for People's Choice: Favourite International Artist.

Composition

"With Love"
A 17-second sample of the song's chorus features Duff singing over an electropop influenced background.
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"With Love" is a moderately fast song that has a 4
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About.com wrote that the song comprises "[e]lectronic bleeps with hand-clapping and finger-snapping beats", Duff's "adult pop vocals" and an "attack" of a "[c]runchy, dance-rock guitar [that] underlines the hook".[4] The vocal range required for the song is E3 to C♯5.[2] According to Duff, the song is about having a "crazy job" but being kept "sane" by "that one person" with whom they are in a relationship, "and letting that person know that you appreciate criticism or advice because you know it comes from a place of love."[5]

Remixes

promotional single.[9]
Speaking with Complex Magazine, Thug said that he had wanted to expand his horizons with his participation in the remix:

I was at Play-n-Skillz' crib, listening to beats, smokin'. He said, "I'm doing this remix for Hilary Duff, you wanna jump on it? They got that

Disney bread over there." I said, "It's done." I wrote the sh--, they picked it, and that sh-- already on TLC. Sh--, whatever, TRL I mean.[10]

Critical reception

Duff performing the song at 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards.

"With Love" received a positive review from

rah-rah-skirt feel to it."[14]

Commercial performance

"With Love" premiered on

the singles chart. The song reached number twenty-nine the following week, where it peaked. It is Duff's lowest peaking single there. The single performed less well than most of Duff's previous singles in Australia, reaching number twenty–two.[22] As of July 27, 2014, the song had sold 550,000 copies in the United States.[24]

Music video

Background

Kellan Lutz is Duff's love interest in the music video for "With Love".

The "With Love" music video was directed by Matthew Rolston and doubles as the television commercial for Duff's fragrance With Love... Hilary Duff.[25] It was filmed at City Hall in San Francisco.[5] Three versions of the commercial, each with a different length (fifteen, thirty and sixty seconds), entered rotation on U.S. television networks in November 2006.[25] Rolston said that he was asked to incorporate an element of intrigue and open-endedness into the commercial that could serve as a cross-reference to other facets of the With Love... Hilary Duff promotional campaign.[25] Rolston responded by including allusions to films in which "women use hair and makeup and wardrobe to change their identities", citing Vertigo (1958) and La Femme Nikita (1990) in that respect.[25] He also included a cliffhanger designed to generate discussion among young people—"It gives them something to blog about and be viral about", he said—and adult elements that would help to introduce Duff to an older audience.[25]

Synopsis

The video begins with Duff receiving a standing ovation for a performance. She goes backstage, where her entourage hands her a bag, coat and hat. A man (played by Kellan Lutz[25]) who was standing outside the auditorium follows her to a hotel. In the lobby, Duff sprays With Love... Hilary Duff perfume on her neck, reverses her coat and puts on a black wig, giving her hat to an old black man whose back is turned. Pursued by the first man, she walks up a staircase, throws the coat off the railing, tears off her white dress to reveal black, and rips off the lower half of the dress. The man smells the perfume on her coat and follows her into an elevator car, where she teases him by pulling his tie. The cables holding the elevator car break, causing it to fall down the shaft, and Duff and the man embrace, kissing passionately. The video concludes with a title card that reads, "...to be continued."

Release and reception

The music video premiered on

People's Choice: Favourite International Artist at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards.[29] A separate version of the music video was produced for airing on Disney Channel and its online DXD service on the page for Radio Disney. This version of the video features Duff performing the song with her band in a studio and dancing. The alternate video also aired on Family, in Canada.[citation needed
]

Madonna's "Justify My Love" for the TRL crowd—steamy hotel assignations, wigs, etc."[30] Sharon Dastur, program director at New York City radio station WHTZ, said that her first reaction to the video was, "'This is exactly the kind of song she should be doing.' Hilary's more mature look completed the package. Her sound and image are a natural progression."[31]

Track listings

Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[36] 22
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[37] 16
Canada
CHR/Top 40 (Billboard)[38]
 19
Canada
Hot AC (Billboard)[39]
 33
European Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[40] 46
Germany (GfK)[41] 91
Ireland (IRMA)[42] 26
Italy (FIMI)[43] 8
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[44] 91
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[45] 27
Scotland (OCC)[46] 14
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[47] 6
UK Singles (OCC)[48]
 29
US Billboard Hot 100[49] 24
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[50] 1
US Pop Airplay (Billboard)[51] 25

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[52] Gold 500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "With Love"
Region Date Format Version Label Ref(s).
United States February 20, 2007 Original Contemporary hit radio Hollywood [53]
March 13, 2007 Digital download [54]
Australia March 17, 2007 CD single Various EMI [55]
United Kingdom March 19, 2007 [56][57]
Germany March 23, 2007 [58]
Italy April 16, 2007 Digital download Boosta club remix [59]
United States May 15, 2007 Richard Vission remix Hollywood [60]

See also

  • List of number-one dance singles of 2007 (U.S.)

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