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"Heartbeat Song" is a song by American singer Kelly Clarkson from her seventh studio album, ''Piece by Piece'' (2015). Written by Mitch Allan, Audra Mae, Kara DioGuardi, and Jason Evigan, the song is an uptempo synthpop track produced by Greg Kurstin. Lyrically, it sings of meeting a person who restores someone's faith in love. Inspired by 1980s synthpop music, "Heartbeat Song" was released by RCA Records as the album's lead single on January 12, 2015. "Heartbeat Song" was released to a positive response from music critics, who complimented the song's production and praised Clarkson's decision to return to mainstream pop music. Other critics, however, noted the strong resemblance the song's melody bore to that of Jimmy Eat World's single "The Middle" (2001). Commercially, the single debuted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart at number 37 and has peaked at number 21, marking Clarkson's sixteenth top 40 hit on the chart. It also became her fifth song to top the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Songs chart and marked as her highest debut among her twenty career entries on the ''Billboard'' Adult Top 40 chart. Internationally, it became a top ten hit single in Austria, Poland, South Africa and the United Kingdom while also becoming a top twenty hit in the national charts of the Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, Slovakia and Sweden. Filmed by Marc Klasfeld, its accompanying music video features a scenes of various downtrodden people and their process of finding love again. Clarkson premiered "Heartbeat Song" in a live televised performance on ''The Graham Norton Show'' in February 2015 and has performed it on ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'' and the fourteenth season of ''American Idol''. ==Background and composition== Shortly after the release of her first Christmas album, ''Wrapped in Red'' (2013), Clarkson, despite her pregnancy, began to record material for her seventh studio album, with a target release date in 2014.〔 One of these tracks, "Heartbeat Song", is an uptempo〔 synthpop〔 track produced by Greg Kurstin.〔 Lyrically, the song sings of meeting a person who restores someone's faith in love.〔 Sonically, ''USA Today''s Brian Mansfeld remarked that the record serves as sonic defibrillator, starting with a jolt of melody, its rhythms shifting a couple times before finally settling into its steady pulse;〔 while Idolator's Bradley Stern described its production as Top 40 radio-friendly and remarked that the track sees Clarkson's pulse raising while falling in love above kicky drums, guitars and hints of synths. "Heartbeat Song" was written by Mitch Allan, Audra Mae, Kara DioGuardi, and Jason Evigan in a two-day session writing camp.〔 In an interview on ''Entertainment Tonight'', Mae revealed that DioGuardi came up with the main idea and used it as the song's chorus, with everybody else contributing in.〔 After pitching the song to different artists, she later found out during the Christmas season that Clarkson had recorded it and plans to release the song as the album's lead single.〔 Musically, the song is written in the key of G-flat major with a fast tempo of 149 beats per minute. It follows the chord progression G–Bm7–Em–C, and Clarkson's vocals span from G3 to E5. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heartbeat Song (Kelly Clarkson song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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