Damaged (Danity Kane song)
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"Damaged" is the lead single and video from American girl group Danity Kane's second album, Welcome to the Dollhouse, which debuted on March 18, 2008.
History
In January 2008, Danity Kane posted a bulletin on their official MySpace page expressing that they were giving their fans a chance to vote for one of two new songs that they thought were appropriate to become the lead single. "Damaged" and "Pretty Boy" were the two choices for online voters to choose from. "Damaged" overshadowed the competition, consequently becoming Danity Kane's first single off the group's sophomore album. On January 28, 2008, group members Aubrey O'Day and Dawn Angelique Richard posted bulletins on their respective MySpace sites stating that "Damaged" was indeed the first single from their most recent album. Danity Kane performed "Damaged" for the very first time at "Spotlight on Bad Boy R&B Night".[1] The production of the song is featured on the seventh episode of MTV's Making the Band 4, Season 2.
Release
The song was released to legal digital download sites on January 29, 2008.[2]. The song charted at number 44 on the Mediabase chart which tabulates the most played songs on American radio stations.[3] The song has also peaked at number 6 on the iTunes Store Top 100 Pop Chart. Damaged has peaked at number 15 on the Top 100 Most Downloaded songs of the iTunes Store which is expected to make an impact on next week's Billboard Hot 100. The song has just entered the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Chart at number 9 equal to 109 on the Hot 100.[4].
Music Video
The "Damaged" music video premiered on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 on MTV's TRL and since has peaked at number 4 on TRL. It premiered in its entirety on TRL and on MTV.com.[5] Within 24 hours after its premiere on MTV's TRL, the video was charted as number one in Most Viewed Music Video.
The video features the members of Danity Kane in a futuristic theme. The pink special effects are used to represent the setting of being within an actual heart. Throughout the video, choreography is done along with the music and the girls are shown in a futuristic room with screens of them performing the choreography, which they see while laying down on a futuristic bed. Towards the end of the music video, the bed that the girls is laying on closes to form a heart, which happens to be the heart of a man on a stretcher in a hospital. Here he is trying to be revived by the operators who turns out to be Danity Kane. The music video then transitions to a setting where the man is in his bedroom with a note on him saying "Tired of the damage -DK".
Since its premiere on YouTube it has been receiving positive reviews. The video already has received over 234,979 views on YouTube. It currently sits at number 2 on the iTunes Top Music Videos.
Parodies
Chris Crocker, YouTube internet celebrity, posted an online video of himself dancing to the single on Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Incidentally, Crocker only played the first minute-and-a-half of the song and it has since received 1,006,366 views on YouTube.
Since Crocker has posted his video, dozens of fans have posted their own responses mocking Crocker's suggestive dance moves and interpreting the song with their own dance moves.
Charts
| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 109 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 73 |