Half of My Heart
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| "Half of My Heart" | |||||||||||
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| Single by John Mayer featuring Taylor Swift | |||||||||||
| from the album Battle Studies | |||||||||||
| Released | 21 June 2010[1] | ||||||||||
| Format | Digital download | ||||||||||
| Recorded | 2009 | ||||||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||||||||
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4:10 (Main Version) 3:49 (Radio Version) | ||||||||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||||||||
| Writer(s) | John Mayer | ||||||||||
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"Half of My Heart" is a song by American alternative rock singer John Mayer and American country pop singer Taylor Swift. It is the third single from Mayer's 2009 album, Battle Studies.
Music and lyrics
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"Half of My Heart" features more of a pop rock sound than Mayer's previous music. His previous albums explored blues and acoustic rock, especially in his 2006 album Continuum. It also has a carefree, sing-along sound to it.
The lyrics of the song are sung by both Mayer and Swift; Swift sings with Mayer in the chorus and in the song's bridge. The lyrics are about the duo, with half of their hearts saying they should continue to love each other, although the other half says they are not each other's true love, and cannot keep loving each other.
Mayer "tweeted" about wanting to record the song with Swift in March 2009: "Waking up to this song idea that won't leave my head. 3 days straight now. That means it's good enough to finish," he wrote. "It's called 'Half of My Heart' and I want to sing it with Taylor Swift. She would make a killer Stevie Nicks in contrast to my Tom Petty of a song."[2]
In an interview shown on television called John Mayer: On the Record with Fuse (which only aired on the Fuse channel), Mayer's interviewer asked why the singer chose Swift to duet with, since she was only nineteen years old, and Mayer was 32. He responded by saying that he was not putting her on the album just to sell more copies for die-hard fans of Taylor Swift that might just get the album for that song.
Chart performanceEdit
"Half of My Heart" debuted at twenty-nine on the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart on the issue date of May 8, 2010. This makes John Mayer's fourteenth appearance on that chart.
| Chart (2009–2010) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[3] | 95 |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 53 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[4] | 19 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 25 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks | 29 |
| U.S. Billboard Rock Songs | 49 |
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=16691
- ↑ Half of My Heart Songfacts
- ↑ "Chartifacts - Week Commencing: 12th July 2010". Australian Recording Industry Association. July 12, 2010. http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/chartifacts.htm. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
- ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 - week 27, 2010" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40 Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.
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