Dignity (Hilary Duff song)

Song infobox
Name = Dignity


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Type =
Artist = Hilary Duff
alt Artist =
Album = Dignity
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Released = Start date|2007|3|20
(see "Dignity" (album))
track_no = 2
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Genre = Dance pop, synthpop
Length = 3:13
Writer = Hilary Duff, Kara DioGuardi, Chico Bennett, Richard Vission
Composer =
Label = Hollywood
Producer =
Chart position =
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prev = "Stranger"
prev_no = 1
next = "With Love"
next_no = 3
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"Dignity" is a song written by Hilary Duff, Kara DioGuardi, Chico Bennett and Richard Vission, and recorded for Duff's third studio album, "Dignity" (2007).

Publicity

Although not slated for release as a single, the song attracted substantial publicity outside the album in sources such as MSNBC and "Radar" magazine; they alleged that "Dignity" and another track on the album, "Gypsy Woman", were about Nicole Richie, who was dating Duff's ex-boyfriend Joel Madden. [ [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17507820/ "Hilary Duff takes aim at Nicole Richie?"] . MSNBC. March 7 2007. Retrieved April 9 2007.] [ [http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Hilary+Duff+s+Richie+rant-14373.html "Hilary Duff's Richie rant"] . FemaleFirst.co.uk. March 8 2007. Retrieved April 9 2007.] Bercovici, Jeff. [http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/03/post-3.php "Hilary Duff Settles Score — In Song!"] . "Radar". March 7 2007. Retrieved April 9 2007.] [ [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10436144 "Hilary Duff lyrics lash out"] . "The New Zealand Herald". April 26 2007. Retrieved June 28 2007.] "Radar" wrote, "really, what could be more dignified than publicly calling out the anorexic ex-junkie who stole your boyfriend?" "Entertainment Weekly" said, "When the fairy-tale romance between [Duff and Madden] went belly-up late last year, the Good Charlotte frontman speedily rebounded into the twiglike arms of [Richie] , and the world moved on. Duff, it seems, did not, and hell hath no fury like a young woman scorned."Bernstein, Jonathan. [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20016438,00.html "Dignity (2007) - Hilary Duff"] . "Entertainment Weekly". March 30 2007. Retrieved April 9 2007.] Duff did not deny the rumors, saying the track "is definitely about people in Hollywood ... I wouldn't say that it is about [Richie] specifically but it is about people that kind of do what she does and act the way she acts." [http://www.news.com.au/sundaymail/story/0,23739,21475267-5003421,00.html "Hilary dumps teen queen tag"] . "The Sunday Mail". April 1 2007. Retrieved April 9 2007.] According to the "Washington Blade", such people include "celebutantes" Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.Cooke, Buck C. [http://www.washblade.com/2007/4-13/arts/music/10389.cfm "'Dignity' is 'Big' this spring"] . "Washington Blade". April 13 2007. Retrieved June 28 2007.]

Critical reception

"USA Today" wrote of the song, " [Duff] now feels free to address such issues as stalkers and celebrity airheads in song ... You have to laugh when Duff sneers [on "Dignity"] , 'You'd show up to the opening of an envelope.'" [Gardner, Elysa. [http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2007-04-02-hilary-duff-cover_N.htm "Duff finds 'Dignity' in words"] . "USA Today". April 2 2007. Retrieved April 3 2007.] "Rolling Stone" said that with the song, Duff " [rails] against the Paris Hiltons of the world, over Gwen Stefani-style techno-lite beats." [Greene, Andy. [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/13967536/dignity "Hilary Duff - Dignity"] . "Rolling Stone". April 2 2007. Retrieved April 9 2007.] "The Guardian" said Duff was "charmingly chameleon-like" on the song, which it said was one of the tracks on the album on which she was "most triumphant"; it also wrote that the song was "tabloid fodder" and "could be taken as a catty swipe at Lindsay Lohan, with whom she has an ongoing feud." [Macpherson, Alex. [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2040594,00.html "Hilary Duff, Dignity"] . "The Guardian". March 23 2007. Retrieved April 9 2007.] "Slant" magazine commended Duff for "explicitly excluding herself from her peers, chiding fellow celebrities' public exhibitionism ('You'd show up to the opening of an envelope') and the press's enabling of it ('It's not news when you got a new [bag] ')." [Cinquemani, Sal. [http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=1088 "Music Review: Hilary Duff: "Dignity"] . "Slant Magazine". March 27, 2007. Retrieved April 5, 2007.] "Entertainment Weekly" said Duff "sneers" on the song, which it described as "churning". The "Washington Blade" said that the song "has a lot more bite than one would expect from Duff... she sings with feeling that recalls Pink's "Stupid Girls"." "Blender" magazine wrote that the song "has the same "shame on you" message as ["Stupid Girls"] , but it's roughly a thousand times better. Backed by a sizzling dance-rock beat, Hilary whips off a laundry list of bitch-slap one-liners ... before landing at the tisk-tisk hook". [ [http://www.blender.com/news/comments.aspx?article=9235 "Blender Blog - Newer Than New Music: Hilary Duff Takes Aim at Paris & Co."] . "Blender".]

Popjustice named the song number 59 in their list of 100 grestest singles of 2007. [http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2024&Itemid=9]

Official Remixes

*Dignity [Richard Vission Remix] 3:44
*Dignity [Richard Vission Mix] 4:28

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