''Dignity'' is the fourth
studio album by American recording artist
Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including seven Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, four Teen Choice Awards and two Young Artist Awards. She began her acti ...
. It was released on March 21, 2007, by
Hollywood Records. After launching her third studio album ''
Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including seven Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, four Teen Choice Awards and two Young Artist Awards. She began her acti ...
'' (2004), she experienced an eventful personal life, including a
stalking
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incident, her parents getting divorced and her breakup with her boyfriend
Joel Madden
Joel Rueben Madden (né Combs; March 11, 1979) is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist for the pop punk band Good Charlotte. He is also part of the pop rock collaboration the Madden Brothers with his identical twin brother Benj ...
after two years of dating. Consequently, Duff assumed an integral position in its production, co-writing almost every track with longtime collaborator
Kara DioGuardi
Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi (; born December 9, 1970) is an American songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, and singer. She writes music primarily in the pop rock genre. DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists; sales o ...
instead of her previously-limited involvement.
In contrast to the pop rock themes of her prior releases, ''Dignity'' takes on more of a dance sound, which she said was not her intention while writing the album. The lyrics reference the events Duff experienced in the years leading to the album's release, and the album's songs contain influences of rock and roll and hip hop music.
Critical response was mostly positive; the album was praised for its songwriting and her new musical direction. Upon release, ''Dignity'' debuted at number three on the US
''Billboard'' 200, a lower peak than Duff's previous albums and with lower sales, which ''
Billboard'' attributed to the loss of fans during her musical evolution. Despite this, it produced Duff's highest-peaking single on US
''Billboard'' Hot 100 to date, "
With Love With Love may refer to:
Music Albums
* '' ...with Love'', by Mary Byrne
* ''With Love'' (Amanda Lear album), 2006
* ''With Love'' (Bobby Vinton album), 1974
* '' With Love, Chér'', 1967
* ''With Love'' (Christina Grimmie album), 2013
* ''W ...
", which peaked at number twenty-four, and two number one club hits on US
Hot Dance Club Play
Dance Club Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. It is a national look over of club disc jockeys to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the country. It was launched as th ...
. The album has reached the top ten in several countries and was certified
Gold
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in the United States by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). To promote the album, Duff embarked on her fourth concert tour, the ''Dignity Tour'', between July 2007 and February 2008.
Background
Duff's previous studio album, the self-titled ''
Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including seven Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, four Teen Choice Awards and two Young Artist Awards. She began her acti ...
'' (2004), received generally negative reviews. The album peaked at number two on the
''Billboard'' 200, and its commercial performance was still successful: it exited the chart after 33 weeks and sold 1.8 million copies in the United States.
Between the releases of ''Hilary Duff'' and ''Dignity'', Duff's personal life was eventful. In October 2006, she and her boyfriend at the time,
Joel Madden
Joel Rueben Madden (né Combs; March 11, 1979) is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist for the pop punk band Good Charlotte. He is also part of the pop rock collaboration the Madden Brothers with his identical twin brother Benj ...
of
punk rock band
Good Charlotte
Good Charlotte is an American rock band from Waldorf, Maryland that formed in 1996. Since 2005, the band's lineup has consisted of twin brothers Joel Madden (lead vocals) and Benji Madden (guitar and vocals), Paul Thomas (bass), Billy Mart ...
, claimed that they were being
stalked by Russian emigre Maksim Miakovsky and his roommate, paparazzo David Joseph Klein. According to a
restraining order filed by Duff, Miakovsky came to the United States solely to pursue a relationship with her. He was later arrested after threatening to kill her. In November, she ended her two-year relationship with Madden.
Around the same time, her parents Robert and Susan separated after 22 years of marriage following an affair between Robert and another woman.
Writing and development
Duff explained of the album's title, "I'm older and more mature now than I was when I made my last record, but I don't think I know it all. Having dignity is something you work on your whole life, in how you treat people and how you treat yourself. I hope I always strive to have it."
She continued, "It's not something that you can be given or that you can just get or that you're born with. It's something that you have to work on."
[2007. "At Home with Hilary Duff" featurette on ''Dignity'' deluxe edition DVD. Hollywood Records.]
She stated that with ''Dignity'', her increased songwriting output was a breakthrough for her. "That hadn't really been part of my process on previous records, except here and there. It was important this time," she said.
She co-wrote all of the album's songs, with the exception of "Outside of You", written by
Pink
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,
Chantal Kreviazuk and
Raine Maida
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– Ourladypeace.cc. Retrieved April 30, 2010. is a C ...
. In an interview, Maida stated that the song was written for a Pink album but did not make the final cut. When Duff expressed interest in the song, she recorded it. Duff explained of her writing process:
he album
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has all of me in it. I never did my records like that before. I got to choose the music, but this time around it was, like, I'd sit down and think: 'What happened to me yesterday? What happened to me today?' and just write. It was very therapeutic, in a way. And easy – I was shocked at how easy it was to be honest about yourself and things that affect you. It is a dance record, but I wanted it to be serious. I wanted to talk about serious things, but do it in a not-so-serious way, with music that makes you want to get up and dance.
Much of ''Dignity'' was written in Duff's own home, as she felt "comfortable and free" there.
[''Dignity'' (album liner notes). 2007. Hollywood Records.] She said that she knew from the beginning that she wanted to write the album with the assistance of songwriter and producer
Kara DioGuardi
Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi (; born December 9, 1970) is an American songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, and singer. She writes music primarily in the pop rock genre. DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists; sales o ...
, due to their previous work history on songs such as "
Come Clean" and "
Fly".
Another reason that Duff wished to work with her was that she found her lyrics were complemented by DioGuardi's melodies. She added, "I helped with the melodies, but that's not my strongest suit. Coming up with the lyrics was mainly
hat I did
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I'd tell her this is how I want it to go, and she would help with the lyrics, too, sometimes. She'd say, 'This doesn't really fit,' and if I was adamant, we'd make it work."
Composition
As inspiration for the album, Duff cited
indie rock
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band
the Faint
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and pop singers such as
Gwen Stefani and
Beyoncé,
while critics compared her musical style with Stefani,
Janet Jackson,
Depeche Mode,
Madonna and
Justin Timberlake.
Duff felt that the album's
dance-pop themes were a deviation from the
pop rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, earl ...
of her previous albums. "I didn't necessarily plan the album to sound like this, but it was so easy to write to," she said. Critics have noted that ''Dignitys musical style is dance-pop and
electropop, with influences of
hip hop,
rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm a ...
and
Middle Eastern music.
According to Duff, the album is a combination of dance,
electro and rock music.
The lyrics of several songs relate to Duff's experiences between the releases of ''Hilary Duff'' and ''Dignity''. The songs "
Stranger" and "Gypsy Woman", despite speculation that they were written about Madden's then-new girlfriend
Nicole Richie, were actually written about Duff's father's affair.
She said that "Stranger" was written from her mother's perspective. "''Stranger'' is a song I wrote about how my mom must feel around my dad," she said. "I made it seem like it was about a relationship I was in, because I didn't want people to know about my parents. But I've realized that so many people can relate to what I've gone through."
The album's title track has also been reported to be about Richie, though Duff did not deny rumors that it was. "Dignity is a song that is definitely about people in
Hollywood", she said. "I wouldn't say that it is about her specifically but it is about people that kind of do what she does and act the way she acts." The song "Danger" was written about one of Duff's friends' relationships with an older man. "I understand that feeling of wanting to be dangerous," she said. "You may know morally something's not right, but you can't help yourself."
She has stated that the song "Dreamer" was written about a stalker in a
tongue-in-cheek
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fashion, and it has been speculated that it was written specifically about Miakovsky.
Artwork
The album's photography was done by Andrew Macpherson, in which a "newly brunette Duff wears grown-up black leather and diamonds," in line with its theme of "reinvention". The album artwork is a tightly framed portrait of Duff, with
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
AllMusic
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opining: "From the soft-focused, impeccably styled, tasteful cover photo–better suited for ''
Harper's Bazaar'' than a pop album
..''Dignity'', appears to be the teen star's self-styled, self-conscious adult album. Almost too adult, actually, since the packaging makes it seem like Hilary skipped over her wild, restless years and headed straight toward polished adult contemporary blandness."
When asked by ''
Westword
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'' if the artwork is a comment on how other celebrities should present themselves in the media, Duff stated: "The record cover is a big closeup of my face. It’s not like I have no clothes on or I’m trying to do something really edgy or provocative.
..It’s not about anybody else. It’s my record and I would not ever want to try and make someone like me or say this is how you should be. I’m just saying this is how I am and this is how I want to be." Its artwork for the Japanese release was done by
Leslie Kee
Leslie Kee (born 5 April 1971) is a Singaporean photographer based in Japan.
Early life
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, who captured her youthful appearance and "sexy" side as she transitioned into adulthood.
Promotion
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To promote the album's release, Duff "worked tirelessly with the whole Hollywood Records staff to market
herecord."
On the day of the album's release, April 3,
MTV began airing the two-part documentary special, ''
Hilary Duff: This Is Now''. The documentary followed Duff as she prepared for the release of ''Dignity'' by attending photoshoots, interviews, wardrobe fittings, rehearsals and a trip to Europe. In addition, Duff hosted ''
Total Request Live
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'' for the week of March 26, made several appearances at retail outlets and on television, and was given massive online coverage on
MySpace and
Yahoo!
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.
Accompanying Duff's new musical style, the record label began promoting her with a more mature image.
Duff dyed her hair dark and "sexed-up" her image. According to Duff, she wanted to "try new things", but the image change "just happened. It is not like a conscious change. People think it is so different because they have watched me grow up but that is just what happens in life." ''
Entertainment Weekly
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'' described Duff's new look as comprising "dark mane, dental veneers, luxe and vampy fashions". In mid-2007, concurrent to the preparation of the radio release of "Stranger", Duff was featured on the July covers of the magazines ''
Us Weekly
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'' and ''
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'' in a bikini, and on the August cover of ''
Maxim
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** ''Maxim'' (Australia), the Australian edition
** ''Maxim'' (India), the Indian edition
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'' accompanied by the declaration that she had gone "from the queen of teen to breakout sex symbol".
The
Associated Press
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wrote that Duff's more provocative image would help her singles to garner mainstream
radio play
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. Guy Zapoleon, a radio consultant and former
programmer for
Top 40
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radio, explained that "radio has a stigma about playing
isneyacts, considering them teen and preteen in their appeal", and that Duff's provocative image would "definitely have a positive effect on the attitude of programmers, who are mostly male, as Disney tries to mature her image".
A bonus
EP containing five bonus remixes was released exclusively to US
Walmart
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stores as a package with the album.
Singles
Three singles were released from the album. "
Play with Fire" was released as the first single on August 21, 2006 which Duff considered to be a "tease" of ''Dignitys musical sound. Although she felt it was different from the album's other songs, she saw it as embodying the dance/electro/rock combination of the album, which influenced her decision to release it. Duff opted to release the song well in advance of the album "to give listeners a chance to get into my new sound". Though it failed to chart on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100, it charted on the magazine's
Hot Dance Club Play
Dance Club Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. It is a national look over of club disc jockeys to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the country. It was launched as th ...
chart, peaking at number 34. It was later released as a digital-only single on May 15, 2007 in a remixed form of the original version, with production by Richard Vission.
The second single, "
With Love With Love may refer to:
Music Albums
* '' ...with Love'', by Mary Byrne
* ''With Love'' (Amanda Lear album), 2006
* ''With Love'' (Bobby Vinton album), 1974
* '' With Love, Chér'', 1967
* ''With Love'' (Christina Grimmie album), 2013
* ''W ...
" became her highest-peaking single on the Hot 100 when it reached number 24. The single reached number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.
The third and final single, "
Stranger", peaked at 97 on the Hot 100 and also reached the top of the dance charts.
Tour
To further promote the album, Duff embarked on her fourth concert tour, the
Dignity Tour. Tickets for most of the leg sold out prior to the show. The tour began in Los Angeles, California on July 28, 2007, and closed in Melbourne, Australia on February 3, 2008. During the tour, Duff premiered a new song, "
Reach Out", which was originally intended to be featured on a planned re-release of ''Dignity''. The re-release never came to be, but the song was ultimately released on Duff's greatest hits album ''
Best of Hilary Duff
''Best of Hilary Duff'' is the first greatest hits album by American recording artist Hilary Duff. It was released on November 11, 2008, by Hollywood Records. The 12-track album consists of eight of Duff's previous singles, as well as two new rec ...
'' (2008).
Filming for the concert took place at
Gibson Amphitheatre
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on August 15, 2007, and was exclusively released via the U.S.
iTunes Store
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in 2010.
Critical reception
The critical response to ''Dignity'' was generally positive.
Metacritic
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gave the album a Metascore—a weighted average based on the impressions of a select 13 critical reviews—of 61, signifying generally favorable reviews.
''
Rolling Stone
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'' gave a positive review of the album, feeling that Duff's attempt to make an adult-oriented dance-pop album was successful.
About.com
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gave the album four out of five stars, called Duff "as likeable as ever" and praised the songwriting and production contributions of
Richard Vission
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Biography
He was raised in Highland Park, in Los Angeles, California, and graduated from Be ...
and
will.i.am
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...
.
Allmusic
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noted that the album was firmly based on "sturdy, hooky, and memorable" songwriting. The review claimed similarities between ''Dignity'' and
Justin Timberlake's ''
FutureSex/LoveSounds
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'' (2006), noting that Duff was musically fashionable but not a trendsetter. At the same time, the review criticized Duff's thin vocals, calling them "not at all like a woman".
''
Billboard'' called Duff's decision to make a dance-pop album daring, considering the unpopularity of the genre at the time. The review continued, "It's practically something straight out of the United Kingdom for all of its poppy goodness."
''
Entertainment Weekly
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'' noted that Duff's break-up with Madden brought out her personality, which the magazine felt was lacking in her previous work. "She's never sounded less eager to please or more messily human," the review claimed.
''
The Guardian
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'' praised Duff's decision to opt for a more
electronic dance sound as opposed to the
teen pop
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of her previous work, despite the questionable marketability. They argued that some of the album's strongest tracks rivaled some by
Kylie Minogue.
Sputnikmusic's review noted various flaws of the album, such as what they felt were a lackluster guitar solo on the song "I Wish" and Duff's childish, uncharacterized vocals throughout. However, they continued, "For all its inadequacies, ''Dignity'' is a solid, constructed pop album. Like all albums of the genre not written solely by the performer, it's never quite clear which parts, if any, are Duff's words and which represent the feelings of the under-appreciated co-writer, but in ''Dignity'' we at least have an album where it's worthwhile listening to the lyrics." They praised the songwriting of every track except "Play with Fire", which they felt was a poor choice for a lead single.
IGN
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gave a more mixed review of ''Dignity'', giving it 6.9 out of 10. They praised what they felt was Duff's more mature image, but ultimately claimed, "Duff is still Duff and her music is still running the standard pop line."
PopMatters
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noted that the synthesizers used on the album's tracks failed to disguise Duff's speak-singing. The website believed her vocals were not on the level of her pop music peers such as
Kelly Clarkson
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and
Mandy Moore
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. "Nevertheless," they added, "thanks to the miracle of processing, reverb effects, and multi-tracking tricks to beef up her vocals, Duff's voice is still sweetly candy-coated enough to make the medicine go down."
''
Slant Magazine'' said, "Duff is mostly just an anonymous voice for an assemblage of producers and songwriters. Which is perfectly acceptable for a self-proclaimed dance album, but Duff's voice is nondescript and her delivery is blank; the impish, quirky, or coolly disaffected vocal characteristics and sex appeal that make other dance-pop divas viable performers is nonexistent." The website's review claimed that the album was not very adventurous, and noted that the pop rock "Outside of You", which they felt was the catchiest song on ''Dignity'', was not a dance song like the others.
Commercial performance
''Dignity'' debuted at number three on the US
''Billboard'' 200,
selling 140,000 copies in its first week. The debut was lower than those of Duff's previous albums, each of which entered at either number one or two with opening week sales of around 200,000 copies. ''Billboard'' wrote that Duff's "continued evolution in sound and image ... may have resulted in her losing some of her much younger fans."
["Easter Bunny Hops Onto Charts"]
. '' Billboard''. April 11, 2007. The album has sold a total of 412,000 copies in the US by June, 2015. The album debuted at number twenty-five in the UK with first-week sales of over 8,000 copies. The album spent three weeks in the top seventy-five of the
UK Albums Chart
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.
''Dignity'' broke Duff's streak of consecutive number-one debuts in
Canada
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, entering
the albums chart at number three with 20,000 copies sold.
[Williams, John]
"Duff enters at No. 3 in Canada"
Jam! Showbiz. April 11, 2007. Retrieved April 11, 2007. In response, Duff said she "couldn't be happier" and felt lucky that ''Dignity'' sold the amount it did, noting the state of the marketplace and the moderate sales figures for other albums that week. The album debuted at number seventeen on the
ARIA Albums Chart
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in
Australia, selling roughly 2,300 copies in its first week. The ''
Herald Sun'' referred to it as "dead in the water" in its second week on the chart. In Italy, ''Dignity'' received a Gold certification from the
FIMI for shipments to stores of more than 40,000 copies.
Track listing
Notes
*
signifies an additional
producer
*
signifies a co-producer
*
signifies a
remixer
Personnel
Credits for ''Dignity'' adapted from
Allmusic
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.
[ Credits: ''Dignity'' Allmusic. Retrieved July 13, 2011.]
*
Chico Bennett –
producer
*
Mateo Camargo – producer
*
Kara DioGuardi
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– producer
* Hilary Duff –
executive producer,
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and
backing vocalist
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* Víctor González – producer
*
Tim & Bob
Tim & Bob (Tim Kelley and Bob Robinson), also known as Funktwons, were a songwriting and production duo. Tim & Bob have discovered and or worked on some of the biggest artists in the music industry and has helped develop the Atlanta music scene ...
– producer
* Jason Groucott –
mixing
* Derrick Harvin – producer
* Richard "Segal" Huredia – mixing
*
Alain Johannes
Alain Johannes Mociulski (born May 2, 1962) is a Chilean-American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, whose primary instruments are guitar and bass. He is a founding member of several bands, including the alternative rock group Eleven, and has b ...
– mixing
* Enny Joo –
art direction and design
*
Rhett Lawrence
James Everett "Rhett" Lawrence is an American record producer and songwriter. He has produced, mentored, and helped launch the career of 5 artists amongst the top 200 artists to be featured on Billboard magazine's top charts from 1955-2012, who ...
– producer, mixing
* Logic – producer, mixing
*
Raine Maida
Raine Maida (born Michael Anthony Maida; February 18, 1970)
– Ourladypeace.cc. Retrieved April 30, 2010. is a C ...
– producer
*
Manny Marroquin
Manny Marroquin (born September 21, 1971) is an American mixing engineer.Daley, Dan (May 2005).Manny Marroquin. ''Sound on Sound''. Retrieved February 10, 2007 He has received ten Grammy awards for his professional audio work.
Life and career
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– mixing
* Andrew McPherson – photography
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Fredwreck
Farid Karam Nassar (born June 23, 1972), better known by his stage name Fredwreck, is a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop recording artist, DJ and record producer. He got his big break when he became a producer for Dr. Dre's newly founded r ...
– producer, mixing
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Vada Nobles
Vada Nobles is an American record producer and songwriter. He provided production for " Lost Ones" on Lauryn Hill's debut solo album, ''The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill'' (1998).McLeod, Rodd"The reeducation of Lauryn Hill". Salon.com. May 10, 2000. ...
– producer, mixing
* Andre Recke – executive producer,
A&R, management
* Dave Snow –
creative director
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Ryan Tedder
Ryan Tedder (born June 26, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. As well as being the lead vocalist of the pop rock band OneRepublic, he has an independent career as a songwriter and producer for various artists since th ...
– producer
*
Richard Vission
Richard Gonzalez (born 24 May 1969), better known by his stage name Richard "Humpty" Vission, is a Canadian house music producer, remixer, and DJ.
Biography
He was raised in Highland Park, in Los Angeles, California, and graduated from Be ...
– producer
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Greg Wells
Greg Wells is a Canadian musician, record producer, songwriter and audio engineer. Wells has songs on over 130 million albums sold. He has worked with John Legend, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ariana Grande, Jazmine Sullivan, Kid Cudi, Adele, Rufus Wai ...
– producer
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will.i.am
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– composer
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
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2007 albums
Hilary Duff albums
Albums produced by Chico Bennett
Albums produced by Fredwreck
Albums produced by Greg Wells
Albums produced by Raine Maida
Albums produced by Ryan Tedder
Albums produced by Tim & Bob
Hollywood Records albums
Electropop albums