"I Still Love You" is a song by American singer

Jennifer Hudson Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981), also known by her nickname J.Hud, is an American singer, actress, and talk show host. Throughout her career, she has received various accolades for her works in recorded music, film, televisio ...

. It was written by

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and DJ

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and produced by English garage duo

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for Hudson's third studio album ''

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'' (2014). Musically, it is an uptempo 1970s and 1980s-inspired rollicking

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anthem. Lyrically, the track finds the female protagonist thinking deeply over her relationship with her

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from whom she parted.

Critical reception

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''s Elias Leight wrote that on "I Still Love You" Hudson 'employs a touch of

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, and Gorgon City inject the hollow bass sounds that they've used on their signature tracks – "

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" and " Ready for Your Love."' He felt that "Hudson sings the title phrase with such vigor that her love sounds awful close to hatred." Similarly, ''

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'' writer Christopher R. Weingarten commented that the song recalled "the spirals of

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Music video

The

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for "I Still Love You" was directed by

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and Molly Schiot. The clip follows a gay couple as they prepare for their wedding, and the estranged father of one of the grooms as he makes the last-minute decision to attend the ceremony at a W Hotel in

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. Hudson partnered with American television channels

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and

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, the W Hotels chain, and the

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for the video in support of

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. Model Shaun Ross, actress

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, drag queen

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, and model and LGBT activist Claudia Charriez make appearances in the video. Commenting on the video's release, Hudson remarked that "there couldn’t be a better time to release this video from my new album .. owe a large part of my success to the LGBT community, who has embraced and supported me from early on in my career, and music continues to prove a powerful platform to help promote LGBT equality. I hope my video inspires everyone to keep fighting for fifty.” The

for "I Still Love You" premiered on MTV and Logo on June 3, 2015, as a part of Logo's "#All50" marriage equality campaign, which aims to inform about the latest marriage equality news leading up to the

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’s pending decision on legal marriage for gay and lesbian couples in all 50 states. To celebrate the music video launch, Bravo TV personality

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hosted an exclusive screening and panel discussion focused on LGBT equality issues on June 4, 2015, at W New York in

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References

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