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==Composition==
==Composition==
Musically, "Someone's Watching Over Me" is a moderately paced [[pop music|pop]] song, moving at a tempo of 78 beats per minute.<ref name="sheet"> Written in the key of [[D Major]], the song has the sequence of Dm—Gm—C—C/B{{music|flat}}—Am7—A7 as its chord progression.<ref name="sheet">http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdVPE.asp?ppn=MN0069120</ref> Lyrically, the song speaks about "holding on no matter what happens in life, believing that someone's watching over".<ref name="booklet">
Musically, "Someone's Watching Over Me" is a moderately paced [[pop music|pop]] song, moving at a tempo of 78 beats per minute.<ref name="sheet"/> Written in the key of [[D Major]], the song has the sequence of Dm—Gm—C—C/B{{music|flat}}—Am7—A7 as its chord progression.<ref name="sheet">http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdVPE.asp?ppn=MN0069120</ref> Lyrically, the song speaks about "holding on no matter what happens in life, believing that someone's watching over".<ref name="booklet"/>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==

Revision as of 11:11, 5 December 2010

"Someone's Watching Over Me"
Song
B-side"My Generation"

"Someone's Watching Over Me" is a song recorded by American recording artist Hilary Duff. It was written by Kara DioGuardi and John Shanks, and produced by Shanks for the soundtrack of the 2004 film Raise Your Voice, in which Duff stars. It also appears on Duff's second album, Hilary Duff (2004). Jeff Rothschild and Shanks mixed the song.[1] It was released as the second single from Duff's second album in Australia.

The song received mainly negative reviews, most of whom who stated it was "boring". The song also reached a peak position of number twenty-two in Australian [{ARIA Charts]]. The music video for the song was taken from Duff's performance of the song in the film. "Someone's Watching over Me" was also one of the studio's possible contenders for an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.

History

The song has a role in the plot of Raise Your Voice—in the Sean McNamara-directed film, which is set at a performing arts summer school, Terri (played by Duff) writes the song with her fellow student Jay (Oliver James) and performs it at the film's climax in front of the students, staff and parents. The performance scene served as the single's video, which premiered on the program Rage on ABC Broadband in mid January 2005.[2]

During the week of the single's radio release in Australia in January, it was the fifth most added song to station playlists.[3] After its release as a single the following month, it peaked at number twenty-two on the ARIA Singles Chart and remained in the top forty for nine weeks.[4] The single's B-side is a cover of The Who's "My Generation".

According to Paul Broucek, executive vice president of music for New Line Cinema, in November 2004, "Someone's Watching over Me" was one of the studio's possible contenders for an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 77th Academy Awards.[5] The Herald Sun wrote of "Someone's Watching over Me", which it awarded one star, "Yeah, that'd be Lindsay Lohan. They're single-white-femaling each other when it comes to music, though Duff got in first with the polite Avril-lite soft rock. However, this positivity-laden ballad sucks."[6] The Sunday Telegraph published a two-star review of the song, editorializing that "The banging migraine kicked in somewhere around the lyrics: "I've seen that ray of light/It's shining on my destiny" [...] a brainless, infectious dose of made-to-order teen empowerment pop."[7]

Composition

Musically, "Someone's Watching Over Me" is a moderately paced pop song, moving at a tempo of 78 beats per minute.[8] Written in the key of D Major, the song has the sequence of Dm—Gm—C—C/B♭—Am7—A7 as its chord progression.[8] Lyrically, the song speaks about "holding on no matter what happens in life, believing that someone's watching over".[1]

Track listing

Australian CD Single
  1. "Someone's Watching Over Me" (Kara DioGuardi, John Shanks) – 4:11
  2. "My Generation" (Pete Townshend) – 2:41

Credits and personnel

Someone's Watching Over Me

Writers: Kara DioGuardi, John Shanks Producer: John Shanks Mixed By: Jeff Rothschild, John Shanks

Charts

Chart Peak
Position
Australia (ARIA)[9] 22

Notes

  1. ^ a b In Hilary Duff [CD liner notes]. United States: Hollywood Records. 2004
  2. ^ "Hilary Duff's 'Someone's Watching Over Me' Video". popdirt.com. January 14, 2005. Retrieved October 27, 2006.
  3. ^ "hit list". Herald Sun. January 19, 2005, Guide, pg. H10.
  4. ^ "Hilary Duff - Someone's Watching Over Me". MusicSquare. Retrieved August 16, 2006.
  5. ^ Guerin, Ada. "Sound Investments". The Hollywood Reporter. November 16, 2004.
  6. ^ Adams, Cameron. "the singles". Herald Sun. February 24, 2005, Hit, pg. I08.
  7. ^ Holmes, Peter. "CD Reviews". The Sunday Telegraph. February 13, 2005, Features, ExpressMusic, pg. 124.
  8. ^ a b http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdVPE.asp?ppn=MN0069120
  9. ^ "Hilary Duff – Someone's Watching Over Me". ARIA Top 50 Singles.


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