Play with Fire (song)

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"Play with Fire"
"Play with Fire" cover
Single by Hilary Duff
from the album Dignity
Released August 21, 2006 (U.S. radio)
October 3, 2006 (U.S. digital)
November 18, 2006 (Australia digital)
Format Digital download
Genre Dance pop/Electronic/Rock
Length 3:03
Label Hollywood
Writer(s) Hilary Duff, Kara DioGuardi, Rhett Lawrence, will.i.am
Producer(s) Rhett Lawrence
Chart positions
Hilary Duff U.S. singles chronology
"Supergirl"
(2006)		 "Play with Fire"
(2006)		 "With Love"
(2007)

"Play with Fire" is a song written by Hilary Duff, Kara DioGuardi, Rhett Lawrence and will.i.am, and recorded by Duff for her fourth studio album, Dignity (2007). It was released to U.S. radio as the album's first single on August 21, 2006 (see 2006 in music).[1]

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[edit] Recording and style

Duff said that because she wanted the song to be the album's first single, the music video was filmed before the track had been completed. On the night following the rehearsals and wardrobe fittings for the video, Duff returned to the studio and finished recording the song three hours, before a thunderstorm knocked out some of the equipment. Producer Rhett Lawrence submitted the song to the makers of the video the next morning, less than three hours before shooting was due to begin. "It kind of worked out perfectly", Duff said of the situation.[2]

According to Duff, "Play with Fire" and the other songs on the album are "more dancey" than her previous music and make use of more real instruments. "[I]t's fun and funky and different, something new for me. It's really cool", she said.[3] She has also described the album's sound as "a little less pop-rock and more electronic-sounding. It has a lot of dance melodies."[4]

The song is played during the first club scene in the 2006 film Material Girls, in which Duff stars. It is not listed in the credits on the DVD release; instead her song "Happy" is in its place. "Play with Fire" was originally "Happy", but the song's lyrics and instrumentals were changed, and "Happy" is now a song of its own. A high quality version of the "Play with Fire" video can be viewed on the DVD for the film.

[edit] Commercial release

In early December, after its release to XM Satellite Radio, "Play with Fire" peaked at number 113 on Mediabase's Top 40 chart.[5][6] The song was released for digital download to LAUNCHcast and Sony Connect on October 3, 2006,[7] and to iTunes on October 9.[8] It did not appear on the U.S. Hot 100,[9] but it has become a minor club hit, peaking at number thirty-one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in early December.[10] The UK CD single was to be released on November 6, but it was pulled from release.[11]

The single nabbed a positive review from Billboard magazine's Chuck Taylor, who described the song as "less of the clichéd little-girl-playing-tough-pop/rocker than it is a truly intriguing exploration into darker, more experimental melodic structures that could attract a whole new crowd of late-night dancefloor minions to the Duff camp."[12]

[edit] Video and remixes

The video contains visual effects reminiscent of a house of mirrors, according to directors Alex and Martin.
The video contains visual effects reminiscent of a house of mirrors, according to directors Alex and Martin.

Its video was directed by Alex and Martin and filmed in July. According to the directors, the video is "real and surreal" and contains visual effects that are reminiscent of a "house of mirrors" as seen in an amusement park. "For example, we could see a glass reflection close-up of Hilary vibrate and explode which then transitions to a completely different image behind her, then disintegrates into a new performing shot", they said.[1] The video's world premiere was on August 15 on MTV's Total Request Live in the U.S., and it peaked at number five on the show's top ten video countdown; it remained on it for nineteen days, until September 14.[13] The video peaked at number one for four weeks on music videos charts in Brazil.[citation needed]

Richard Vission remixed "Play with Fire"; his official website stated "We can't say who Richard's latest mix is just yet, but it's hot!"[14] His remix achieved success on the WorldSpace Satellite Radio Chart, peaking at number one for the week of November 24.[15] Billboard called the Richard Vission radio edit "a true work of art, refashioning Duff as a potential innovator - and heaven knows there are precious few of those these days ... It will be fascinating to see if this is an enchanting fluke, or if America is destined to at last see the arrival of its own Kylie."[12]

A re-edit of the video was released in late October 2006 to accompany the Richard Vission remix. The video can be viewed on Duff's MySpace page.

[edit] Formats and track listings

A CD single was to be released in the UK on November 6, but was pulled. It was later to be released on January 22, but was cancelled again.[citation needed] A promotional single featuring the title track and the Richard Vission remixes was released in the U.S. The single was released as the B-side to "With Love" on March 19 in the UK.

Richard Vission remixes
  1. "Play with Fire" (Richard Vission remix radio edit) – 3:12
  2. "Play with Fire" (Richard Vission Mix Show edit) – 4:55
  3. "Play with Fire" (Richard Vission club mix) – 6:10
  4. "Play with Fire" (Richard Vission dub mix) – 5:55
  5. "Play with Fire" (original mix) – 3:01
Other remixes
  1. "Play with Fire" (Vada mix) – 3:16[16]

[edit] Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[10] 31

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Vineyard, Jennifer. "Hilary Duff: Psychedelic Dance Star? Singer Shoots Trippy Clip For New Single". MTV News. August 3, 2006. Retrieved August 4, 2006.
  2. ^ "Untitled" [episode of Total Request Live]. August 15, 2006. United States: MTV.
  3. ^ "For The Record: Quick News On Hilary Duff, 'American Idol,' Kate Hudson, Travis Barker, Shanna Moakler & More". MTV News. August 14, 2006. Retrieved August 25, 2006.
  4. ^ "New Duff album to debut this fall". United Press International. August 20, 2006. Retrieved December 18, 2006.
  5. ^ "Top 40". Mediabase. December 2 – December 8, 2006. Retrieved December 9, 2006.
  6. ^ "Welcome to 20on20". XM Satellite Radio. Retrieved November 16, 2006.
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ [2]
  9. ^ "Hilary Duff - Billboard Singles". All Music Guide and Billboard. Retrieved October 27, 2006.
  10. ^ a b "Hot Dance Club Play". Billboard. December 23, 2006.
  11. ^ "Play With Fire". HMV.co.uk. Retrieved September 9, 2006.
  12. ^ a b http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/reviews/single_review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003409281
  13. ^ "The TRL Archive - August 2006". popfusion.net. Retrieved December 18, 2006.; "The TRL Archive - September 2006". popfusion.net. Retrieved December 18, 2006.
  14. ^ http://richardvission.com/mp3.html
  15. ^ "WorldSpace Satellite Radio - Music". WorldSpace. November 28, 2006. Retrieved November 15, 2006.
  16. ^ http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5679475



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Discography
Albums: Santa Claus Lane | Metamorphosis | Hilary Duff | Most Wanted | 4Ever | Dignity
Singles: "Why Not" | "So Yesterday" | "Come Clean" | "Little Voice" | "Fly" | "The Getaway" | "I Am" | "Weird" | "Someone's Watching over Me" | "Wake Up" | "Beat of My Heart" | "Supergirl" | "Play with Fire" | "With Love" |
Other Singles: "I Can't Wait" | "Tell Me a Story (About the Night Before)" | "Santa Claus Lane" | "Our Lips Are Sealed" | "Material Girl"
Music DVD's: All Access Pass | The Girl Can Rock | Learning to Fly
Related
Films | Images | Music Videos
Stuff by Hilary Duff | With Love... Hilary Duff
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