With Love (Hilary Duff song)

"With Love" is a moderately fast song that has a ⁴
₄ time signature and a tempo of 122 beats per minute, and it is in the key of C♯ minor.[2] Billboard magazine described it as "a beat-happy track that delivers a propulsive, guitar-laden, bleep-heavy hook",[3] and About.com wrote that the song comprises "[e]lectronic bleeps with hand-clapping and finger-snapping beats", Duff's "adult pop vocals" and an "attack" of a "[c]runchy, dance-rock guitar [that] underlines the hook".[4] The vocal range required for the song is E₃ to C♯₅.[2] According to Duff, the song is about having a "crazy job" but being kept "sane" by "that one person" with whom they are in a relationship, "and letting that person know that you appreciate criticism or advice because you know it comes from a place of love."[5]

Dance music producers Richard Vission and Dave Audé, Joe Bermudez and Francis Preve, Josh Harris (under his alias "Big Woodie") and Bimbo Jones have each remixed "With Love".[6] The New York Post wrote of another remix, by Castillo, "Duff finds her dance groove on this terrific sexy slink ... Its layered production makes it the kind of track that gets better with plenty of volume and some room to shimmy-shake."[7] A hip hop remix of "With Love", the Play-N-Skillz remix, premiered on March 27 and features rapper Slim Thug;[8] it was released to U.S. radio stations on a promotional single.[9] Speaking with Complex Magazine, Thug said that he had wanted to expand his horizons with his participation in the remix:

I was at Play-n-Skillz' crib, listening to beats, smokin'. He said, "I'm doing this remix for Hilary Duff, you wanna jump on it? They got that Disney bread over there." I said, "It's done." I wrote the sh--, they picked it, and that sh-- already on TLC. Sh--, whatever, TRL I mean.[10]

Duff performing the song at 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards.

"With Love" received a positive review from Chuck Taylor of Billboard, who stated that the song "serves to reinvent the appealing singer as a boogie diva. It's a daring approach, and one that sets Hils apart from so many rhythmic acts homogenizing the pop airwaves."[3] It was also well received by Bill Lamb of About.com, who said "on "With Love", [...] style and elegance combine with an irresistible hook to make a record difficult for pop radio to ignore"; Lamb continued that the single "looks poised to break down the [pop radio] walls" for Duff and reach the top ten, and that "Duff sounds like a Kylie Minogue disciple in the making."[4] The song was ranked sixty-seventh on About.com's "Top 100 Pop Songs 2007" list.[11] A review for the UK television program Newsround called it a track that "Kylie or Madonna would love to have on their next album" and predicted that it would be a top twenty hit.[12] Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times described the song as "a tart dance track",[13] and TeenHollywood.com said it "has a Gwen-Stefani-in-a-rah-rah-skirt feel to it."[14]

"With Love" premiered on Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM on January 25, 2007.[15] It became the most added song to U.S. top 40 radio station playlists in mid February, and it was Duff's highest peaking song on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 radio chart since her previous single "Come Clean" (2004).[16][17] "With Love" was released as a digital download in the U.S. on March 13.[18] It debuted at number forty-two, the highest debut of the week, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in late March 2007; it sold 32,500 downloads that week.[19] In mid-April, the song reached number twenty-four and was the greatest digital sales gainer of the week with sales of 57,500.[20] "With Love" remained on the Hot 100 for nine weeks.[21][22] The song became Duff's first to top the Hot Dance Club Play chart and her first to reach the top ten on the Pop 100 chart.[17][21] It was ranked twenty-seventh on the year-end Hot Dance Club Play Tracks chart.[23] In the United Kingdom, a week before its CD single release, "With Love" debuted at number sixty on the singles chart. The song reached number twenty-nine the following week, where it peaked. It is Duff's lowest peaking single there. The single performed less well than most of Duff's previous singles in Australia, reaching number twenty–two.[22] As of July 27, 2014, the song had sold 550,000 copies in the United States.[24]

• List of number-one dance singles of 2007 (U.S.)

• "Hilary Duff - With Love" on YouTube
• "Hilary Duff - With Love - Live at Club G.A.Y." on YouTube