| "Stuttering" | ||||||||
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| Single by Fefe Dobson | ||||||||
| from the album Joy | ||||||||
| Released | September 7, 2010 (see release history) |
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| Format | Digital download | |||||||
| Recorded | 2010 Germano Studios, (New York City, United States) |
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| Genre | Pop, synthpop, R&B | |||||||
| Length | 3:09 | |||||||
| Label | 21 Music, Island Def Jam Motown | |||||||
| Writer(s) | Fefe Dobson, Claude Kelly, J. R. Rotem |
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| Producer | J. R. Rotem | |||||||
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"Stuttering" is a song by Canadian singer–songwriter Fefe Dobson from her second (released) studio album, Joy. It was produced by J. R. Rotem, and co-written by Fefe Dobson, J. R. Rotem, and Claude Kelly. The song was released as a single on September 7, 2010 by 21 Music and The Island Def Jam Motown Music Group and officially impacted mainstream radio on October 12, 2010. The song has achieved success in Canada obtaining the position of #10 in its tenth week on the Canadian Hot 100. The single has received airplay on Radio Disney.
The song has been remixed to feature rapper Pusha T.
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The song has charted on the Canadian Hot 100, debuting at number seventy-eight on the issue dated November 6, 2010.[1] In its tenth week, the song reached a peak of number ten on the chart making it her first top ten on the new chart format and first top ten since 2004. It also is her highest charting single from the album, outpeaking the prior single "Ghost", which peaked at number four.[2]
As the song garnered more success in the United States, it entered the Hot 100 Airplay on November 23, 2010, at the ninety-third position. On its seventh week on the chart, the song peaked at number sixty-five. The song also entered the Pop Songs chart on January 8, 2011, at number forty. On its second week it reached a new position of thirty-nine. It was also the second single of hers to crack the Canadian AC charts of Mediabase & Nielsen BDS.
The video was directed by Alan Ferguson.[3] It premiered October 29, 2010.[4] The video begins with Dobson questioning a hotel manager (a French cowboy) about her boyfriend and she thinks he's covering for him, she then sees a man she believes is him. As she walks to his hotel room she sings. Once she gets there she puts on a leather jacket (owned by the man's girlfriend), then the girlfriend comes into the room and the music stops while she says, "Who the hell are you!" and Dobson retorts, "Who the hell are you?" Just then the man gets out of the shower and Dobson realizes that she doesn't know him. She than proceeds to run out of the hotel room and takes off the jacket, when the French cowboy grabs her and yells at her for 'bringing a lot of business but not paying' and she starts to remember a party that she went to and cheated on her boyfriend. The video than flashes back to Dobson being in a car that crashed causing her to have amnesia. As she gets out of the overheated car and walks away, she talks about amnesia leading "to a really bad stomachache" and admits that she is the one "that needed to be held accountable".
"Stuttering" was featured in the episode "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother" of The CW Television Network series, Hellcats.[5] In the episode "Finish What We Started" of the same series, Dobson is shown performing the song.[6][7][8][9][10]
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| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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| US Hot 100 Airplay (Billboard)[12] | 65 |
| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
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| Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[13] | 10 |
| US Pop Songs (Billboard)[14] | 39 |
| Region | Date | Format |
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| Canada[15] | September 7, 2010 | Digital download |
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| Canada | October 12, 2010 | Radio |
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