Album: Listen Up! (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the debut single by American singer Haley Reinhart, who signed with 19 Recordings/ Interscope Records after finishing third in the final of American Idol. Reinhart premiered the song along with another tune, "Wasted Tears," in Hard Rock Café in Hollywood on February 21, 2012. Her performance was part of the 104.3 MYFM New Music Night showcase for Los Angeles radio station KBIG-FM. The soulful ballad was released on March 20, 2012.
  • The song was produced by San Francisco songwriter Michael Busbee, whose other credits include Timbaland featuring Katy Perry's "If We Ever Meet Again," Rascal Flatts' "Summer Nights" and Lady Antebellum's "Our Kind Of Love."
  • Reinhart told MTV News that she chose this for her debut single, as it's the perfect song to define the artist she's striving to be. "I picked it out while I was touring with the 'Idols' and I was getting all these songs shipped into me," she said. "This one I just had to stop and say 'Hey this has my name written on it.' It's something that I can look in the future and see it being able to define me. It's got elements of the sultry, even hints of jazz in there."
  • For Reinhart, filming the song's music video was "a dream come true." "I had this vision and the director, Christopher Sims, really brought it to life for me," she told MTV News. "There's a guy involved, it is kind of a motivational break-up song, so I wanted to keep it mature, yet have the playful scenery behind us. We put it out in a '50s-style diner and just kept it playful, fresh."

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