"I Dare You" is a song by American singer

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. Produced and written by

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, with additional writing by

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, Ben West, and Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman, it was released as a stand-alone single by

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on April 16, 2020. Unlike her previous records, its single release includes multiple versions of the song recorded in several languages as a

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featuring various recording artists—such as French singer Zaz, Canadian-Moroccan singer

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for the Moroccan Arabic version, Spanish singer

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, German musical duo

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, Israeli singer

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for the Hebrew version, and the American

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for the

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version. The Hebrew version reached number one in Israel.

Background and release

"I Dare You" was written by

and Gitty,

, Laura Veltz and Ben West. In her opening monologue on a February 2020 episode of her self-titled talk show, Clarkson revealed her plans to release the song. Israeli singer

also announced that she was invited by

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's parent label) to record the song as a duet with Clarkson as part of a single release featuring select recording artists from all over the world, which included French singer Zaz, Canadian-Moroccan singer

, Spanish singer

, and German musical duo

. She also announced plans to film the single's debut live performance on ''

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'' on March 24, its original intended date of release, but was halted due to the

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. On April 3, 2020, Clarkson announced the single's release date as April 16, 2020, accompanied by a special episode of ''The Kelly Clarkson Show'' the same day.

Critical reception

"I Dare You" has received widespread critical acclaim, with critics praising the unique six-language recording of the song and the various vocal performances, particularly of Clarkson, who recorded the song in all six languages.https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/kelly-clarkson-i-dare-you-song.htmlhttps://people.com/music/kelly-clarkson-new-song-i-dare-you/

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from

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. * Vocals – Kelly Clarkson * Featured vocals – Zaz (Appelle ton amour version) * Featured vocals – Faouzia (كنتحداك version) * Featured vocals – Blas Cantó (Te Reto A Amar version) * Featured vocals – Glasperlenspiel (Trau Dich version) * Featured vocals – Maya Bouskilla (בוא נראה version) * Background Vocals –

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* Background vocals – Natalie Hemby * Guitar – Benji Lysaght * Mastering –

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* Guitar – Erick Serna * Engineer – Jasmine Chen * Guitar – Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman * Bass, drums, drum programming, guitar, keyboards, engineering, production, percussion, synthesizer – Jesse Shatkin * Mixing engineering – John Hanes * Drums, strings – Sam Dent * Engineer – Sam Dent * Mixer –

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* Piano – Tommy King * Recording coordinator – Yakov Lamay (בוא נראה version)

Charts

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Release history

References

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