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"Gypsy Woman" is a song written by Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff and Ryan Tedder, and produced by Tedder for Hilary Duff's third studio album, Dignity (2007). It features an excerpt from Winston Churchill's "This was their finest hour" speech in 1940, after the Battle of France and before the Battle of Britain; the line sampled is "the battle of France is over".
[edit] Background and publicity
According to Duff, the subject of "Gypsy Woman" is a woman who had a relationship with Duff's father, who was married to Duff's mother Susan Duff at the time;[1] Duff said the woman "broke up a big part of my family", which included her sister Haylie, who co-wrote the song.[2] She said she had not discussed it before because it was "hard to talk about" and she "was embarrassed that my family wasn't perfect and that some woman had broken it up." Another track on Dignity, "Stranger", is also about the situation.[1]
The song garnered media attention independent of the album when it was rumored to be about Nicole Richie, who was dating Duff's ex-boyfriend Joel Madden.[1] This speculation, which was reported in sources such as MSNBC and Radar magazine, also involved another song on the album, "Dignity".[3][4][5] Radar suggested that a line in the song, "Enjoy the fame, bringing down the family name", refers to Richie's famous father Lionel.[5] Duff said none of the songs on the album, including "Gypsy Woman", were about Madden and Richie's relationship, and that she didn't know Richie, but she said "she seems like a nice person. There's no bad blood there. I hope that they are happy together."[2]
- ^ a b c Gardner, Elysa. "The focus is on Hilary". USA Today. April 2, 2007. Retrieved April 3, 2007.
- ^ a b Charaipotra, Sona. "Dignified Ms. Duff". Teen People. March 30, 2007. Retrieved April 9, 2007.
- ^ "Hilary Duff takes aim at Nicole Richie?". MSNBC. March 7, 2007. Retrieved April 9, 2007.
- ^ "Hilary Duff's Richie rant". FemaleFirst.co.uk. March 8, 2007. Retrieved April 9, 2007.
- ^ a b Bercovici, Jeff. "Hilary Duff Settles Score — In Song!". Radar. March 7, 2007. Retrieved April 9, 2007.
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