Fix a Heart

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" Improve the Heart " is a song by American singer Demi Lovato, from her third studio album, Unbroken (2011). Priscilla Renea co-wrote the song with her producer Emanuel Kiriakou. It's a ball piano ballet that Lovato himself and some critics describe as a farewell song, while other authors recorded references in the lyrics about singer problems by hurting themselves.

The critical response to the song varies, with many journalists calling it one of the best songs of the album, while others praised the singer's vocal performance. After the album's release, the track peaked at number 69 in the United States and number 78 in Canada. Lovato included the song on his tour list, A Special Night with Demi Lovato (2011-2013) and Future Now Tour (2016).

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Produksi

Lovato began writing and recording songs for her third studio recording in mid-2010. She continued her work for the album the following year, after entering the rehab center to treat her problem by hurting herself, among other issues. In June 2011, the Disney Info Net website published Priscilla Renea songwriting discography, which included unreleased track titles recorded by Lovato, "Fix the Heart" and "Yes, Me". Two months later, the singer announced on her website a list of songs from her third studio album, Unbroken , which included "Fix a Heart". The song trailer is used in "Letters to My Fans", a video letter posted on September 16, 2011 and dedicated to artist enthusiasts. Renea co-wrote the song with producer Emanuel Kiriakou, and the latter also programmed the track and played piano, keyboard and bass. Jens Koerkemeier engineered and edited the recording in Studio E at Chalice Recording, Los Angeles, while Serban Ghenea mixed it up at Mixstar Studios, Virginia Beach. About the song, Lovato said,

"Fix a Heart" is a very emotional song. It's about breaking up, and the first time I hear it, I cry, because I've just had a breakup. I sang that song and poured my heart into it and I just put myself back in that position where I was, when I had a broken heart. I think every girl, even a man can relate to the song because parting is never easy. Basically, this is just a really great break-up song, and it's really emotional.

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Composition

"Fix a Heart" is a pop piano ballad with a length of three minutes and thirteen seconds. According to the digital music sheet published on Musicnotes.com by Alfred Publishing, it is composed in the key of C major and has a tempo of 54 beats per minute. Vocal Lovato extends from low tone A ₃ to high E tone ₅ . The singers do the verses in the low list, while the choir sing in a higher tone. Raul Stanciu from Sputnikmusic notes that the singer's voice "never goes [es] full force, only to the choir". Similarly, Rick Florino from Artistdirect writes that the artist "breaks from a whisper to [a] stadium size restraint". This song has been described by some critics and the singer itself as a farewell song, shown in the choir, "Baby, I just run out of bandaids/I do not even know where to start" Because you can bandage damage/you never really can improve the heart. "Jenny Chen from Neon Tommy wrote that Lovato" openly acknowledged his weakness, including the ability to switch from a broken heart left by a former love. "Regarding the line" You can never really fix the heart ", the artist told Glamor that, "I think every time you get your heart broken, there's a gnawing little piece, and I do not" I thought you got that part back, but I thought you could bandage it with time and with people new people and other things that make you happy ".

Other publications, such as PopMatters, BlogCritics, and Entertainment Weekly , suggested that the song refer to Lovato's previous problems by hurting himself, especially in the line "I tried to break the relationship and I/Ended up with binding wounds/Like you pour salt into my wound/And I run out of bandaids ". Jason Scott of Blogcritics notes that, "If [the singer] has learned one thing in the last year, it is a way to be brutal and often very cruel". Chris Willman of Reuters writes: "Metaphors in tendering, fatalistic 'Improving the Heart' should raise eyebrows, given the history of Lovato's pre-treatment cuts".

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Critical reception

Jason Scott of Blogcritics calls it a "gem" and writes that "Lovato's pain goes so deep that this soul-rending song feels like a punch in the gut". Both Raul Stanciu from Sputnikmusic and Rick Florino from Artistdirect regarded it as a prominent song from Unbroken , while Ed Masley from The Arizona Republic ranked at number 28 on his list. the best songs of 2011, wrote, "This is a fickle waltz ballad, whose cello-generated sense of place puts it closer to something Coldplay might do, even though it sounds like it's in the 60s, its vocal vocals enough to say, 'I feel this'. "Masley also regarded it as the second best song by Lovato, just behind the" Skyscraper ".

AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine chose the song as a pick album, but stated that the honest songs of Unbroken include "Fix a Heart", "Skyscraper" and "For the Love of a Daughter ", is similar to Lindsay Lohan's note A Little More Personal (Raw) (2005). He also criticized Lovato's voice, saying that he "did not have enough pipes to sing [the songs] without trying hard." In contrast, Joe DeAndrea of ​​AbsolutePunk writes, "The vocals of Lovato are unmatched - not only compared to previous attempts, but the majority of vocalists in general. [...] Emotions across tracks like 'Light' and 'Refine the Heart' show true affection in his voice because you can feel the pain flowing out of the speakers ". Jenny Chen from Neon Tommy called it "one of the purest, rudest songs" in the recording.

Laurence Green of musicOMH said, "Fix the Heart" and "Skyscraper" reached the maturity of the opening moments of a crying album because - trembling, beautiful creations built on wiretapping, interpolitical rapsues and piano strings. "Adam R. Holz from < i> Installed In puts the song between "unpleasant content" on the recording because of the theme "sadly." In 2015, singer Sam Smith wrote on Twitter, "You can never really fix the heart", which is answered Lovato, "let's do a remake of the song together." After this, hashtag #DemiLovatoFeatSamSmith becomes a trendy topic on the website.Jason Lipshutz from Billboard states that releasing a remix of the song with Smith will became a "wise" idea. Collaboration, however, never materialized.

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Live show

Lovato put "Improve the Heart" on her tour list, A Special Night with Demi Lovato (2011-2013). Before every song performance, Lovato dedicates it to the heartbroken audience. The recording of his tour show at Hershey Theater on November 19, 2011 was released to iTunes on January 1, 2012 and then included in the deluxe edition of Unbroken . Lovato also sang a song on his show at the Iquique Festival in Chile, in February 2012. The video of the singer who brought the acoustic version of a song for a private event sponsored by Vevo uploaded to YouTube on May 18, 2012.

"Fix a Heart" is then included in the Future Now Tour (2016) tour list, a tour directed by Lovato and Nick Jonas. Music Connection Magazine notes that the recording and "Skyscraper" is the oldest song on the set list, and expressed disappointment over the loss of traces of the singer's previous material. It was performed as part of an acoustic medley with "Nightingale" and "Warrior"; singers began singing accompanied by guitarists, while others members of band supporters joined them towards the end.

Regarding performance at the SAP Center in San Jose, Jim Harrington of East Bay Times states that Lovato "defeated" Jonas and that he did "some of his best work at night on slower, touching material with < i> Unbroken cut 'Fix the Heart' and Bye track 'Nightingale' ". Kelli Skye Fadroski of the Daily Breeze gave a positive review of a concert held at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, saying, "Slowing things a bit [after singing 'Body Say'], she pulls a sit bar on the catwalk and actually killed during 'Fix the Heart' ". An editor of The Columbus Dispatch praised Lovato's vocals at the event offered in Columbus, Ohio, writing, "Even when he slows it down with older songs 'Improve the Heart' and 'Nightingale', the vocal powerhouse the electricity rumbled all over the arena ".

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Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the Unbroken linear note .

Management

• Engineered and Edited in Studio E at Chalice Recording, Los Angeles, California
• Mixed in Mixstar Studios, Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Published by Roditis Music (ASCAP), Priscilla Renea Productions/Power Pen Associated/WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Personnel

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Diagram

After the release of Unbroken , "Fix a Heart" sold 37,000 downloads during its first week of availability in the United States, entering Billboard Hot 100 at number 69 and Digital Chart song at number 35. This also peaked at number 78 on the Canadian Hot 100.

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References

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External links

• Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics

Source of the article : Wikipedia