"With You" is a song by American recording artist Jessica Simpson released as the second single from her third studio album In This Skin. Released in 2003, through Columbia Records. Billy Mann and Andy Marvel produced the song and co-wrote it with Simpson.
The song peaked at top ten on Australia and UK, and at top-twenty on Ireland, Norway and United States. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA and Platinum in Australia.
[edit] Song information
"With You" was written by Jessica Simpson, Billy Mann, and Andy Marvel, and produced by Andy Marvel and Mann.
"With You" lasts for three minutes and twelve seconds. Musically, it is a mid-tempo pop song. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by EMI Music Publishing, the song contains instruments such as piano and guitar.[2]
[edit] Music video
As the single was released while Simpson's reality show, Newlyweds, was still on air and at the peak of its popularity, the video of the song was created to parallel the show. Jessica pokes fun at herself for her on-camera antics throughout. She is featured chowing down on Chicken of the Sea tuna—an allusion to the first episode, where she asks if the famous tuna brand is really chicken—and buffalo wings, a reference to another gaffe of hers, when she asks if buffalo wings come from buffalo.[3][4] At one point she is sporting a T-shirt reading "plata-ma-pus," the way Jessica thought "platypus" was pronounced. She is shown around the house making haphazard attempts at housekeeping, another reference to the first episode, when then-husband Nick Lachey reproves her for not trying to do more around the house herself. In the video, she floods a sink with soapsuds and awkwardly tries to Swiffer the kitchen floor; a later scene shows her trying to sort dirty laundry. She is also seen golfing, another thing she has difficulty with on the show.
The video of the song was released as a DVD single. It received two MTV Video Music Award nominations for Best Female Video and Best Pop Video.[5][6]
[edit] Track listings
- DVD single
- 1. "With You"
- 2. "Sweetest Sin"
- CD 1[7]
- 1. "With You" (album version) – 3:12
- 2. "Fly" (album version) – 3:32
- CD 2[7]
- 1. "With You" (album version)
- 2. "With You" (acoustic version)
- 3. "Where You Are" (edit version)
- 4. "With You" (video)
- Import single[8]
- 1. "With You"
- 2. "Irresistible"
- 3. "I Wanna Love You Forever"
[edit] Chart success
"With You" was released largely in hopes that the song would revive In This Skin on the charts. The single became her biggest hit since 1999s "I Wanna Love You Forever", as it peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song became her first #1 hit on the Top 40 Mainstream chart and also made the top five of the Top 40 Tracks. It reached #1 on the digital downloads chart, and would later assure the single a Platinum certification, which it achieved in November 2005 (having previously gone gold in October 2004). However, the song's strong downloads were not able to help it on the charts, as downloads were not counted towards The Billboard Hot 100 until February 2005.
The song was a big hit in the UK, where it reached number seven, becoming her highest peaking single in that country until "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" reached number four.
In Australia, "With You" reached number four, giving Simpson her first single to reach the top five in that territory. However "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" would reach Simpson's highest peak there to date (#2) nearly two years later.
[edit] Charts and certifications
[edit] Weekly charts
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[edit] Yearly charts
| Chart (2004) |
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| Australia ARIA Charts[20] |
14 |
| UK Singles Chart[21] |
200 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[22] |
50 |
| US Hot 100 Airplay[23] |
51 |
| US Top 40 Mainstream[24] |
6 |
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| Fragrances |
- Dessert
- Fancy
- Fancy Love
- Fancy Nights
- I Fancy You
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