Dignity is the third studio album by Hillary Duff, released in Italy onMarch 23, in theUnited Kingdom, Spain and Portugal on March 26, 2007, in Japan on March 28,2007, in Australia on March 31, 2007, and in the United States by Hollywood Records on April 3, 2007. The first single was "With Love", and the second is "Stranger".In September 2005 Duff said she would "love" Joel and Benji Madden, who produced songs on her compilation album Most Wanted, to produce one of her albums. In January 2006 Duff said she wanted to take time on the album and "really work on [it]", possibly by herself or with just one other producer and songwriter. "[I want to] do it just a little bit different from how I've done it in the past and see what we come up with", she said.
Duff co-wrote all tracks but "Outside of You", which was co-written by singer Pink, and Kara DioGuardi is a co-writer on every song except "Outside of You" and "Gypsy Woman" (co-written by Haylie Duff). Duff said working with DioGuardi "allowed me to talk about things on my mind. It was one big therapy session."According to Duff, she wanted to work with DioGuardi because she liked DioGuardi's work on melodies, which she says "[are] not my strongest suit." Duff wrote most of the lyrics with occasional help from DioGuardi: "She'd say, 'This doesn't really fit', and if I was adamant, we'd make it work." She said the process of her writing lyrics, which she had only done "here and there" on her previous albums, was "important this time".
Duff also worked with producer-songwriter Rhett Lawrence in Toronto, Canada. Other producers and mixers on the album include Greg Wells, Ryan Tedder, Richard "Humpty" Vission, Tim and Bob, and Manny Marroquin, and will.i.am of hip-hop/R&B group The Black Eyed Peas. Chico Bennett, Vada Nobles and Fred Wreck have also contributed.
An early version of the song "Happy" was featured in the 2006 film Material Girls, in which Duff starred. It was originally set to the beat of "Play with Fire", but the lyrics were later changed, and it became a new song.
These are a few songs that are included in this album :
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