"In Your Shoes" is the second single release from British singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Beverley Knight's

Beverley Knight

Beverley Knight MBE is a British soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer who released her debut album in 1995. Heavily influenced by soul greats such as Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin, Knight has released six studio albums to date...

 sixth studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

, 100%, released on 9 November 2009. The radio edit was added to the BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...

 playlist on 14 October 2009 and peaked on the B-list.

Background and Production

The song was co-written by Knight, DJ Munro, Dex Nicholson and Edwyn Collins

Edwyn Collins

Edwyn Stephen Collins is an Ivor Novello Award winning Scottish musician, playing mostly electric guitar-driven pop. Collins formed the musical group Nu-Sonics in 1976, which later became Orange Juice...

 and was produced by DJ Munro, and DC Joseph. "In Your Shoes" takes a sample from Scottish post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

 band Orange Juice's

Orange Juice

Orange Juice was a Scottish post-punk band founded in the middle class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976. Edwyn Collins formed the Nu-Sonics with his school-mate Alan Duncan and was subsequently joined by James Kirk and Steven Daly, who left a band called The Machetes. The band...

 1982 release of "Rip It Up". For the single release of "In Your Shoes", a remix was created for urban radio stations featuring British rapper Chipmunk

Chipmunk (rapper)

Jahmaal Noel Fyffe known by his stage name Chipmunk, is a British hip hop rapper and songwriter from Tottenham, London....

 performing over the original middle-eight section of the song. The remix version was premiered on Ronnie Herel's

Ronnie Herel

Ronnie Herel is a disc jockey and radio presenter on BBC radio 1Xtra, the BBC's digital station for new black music, presenting the flagship 1xtra R&B show on Monday nights from 10pm til 1am....

 BBC 1Xtra radio programme. Knight explains that "In Your Shoes" is about people who focus their envy of your progress, instead of concentrating on their own journey".

Critical reception

In an early review of "100%", David Quantick of the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 said of the song "Knight's fifth album sees the singer rip it up and start again. Literally so in the case of the splendid, must-be-a-single In Your Shoes, which doesn't so much sample Orange Juice's Rip It Up as sit on it and ride it to the market".

Music video

The Music Video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for "In Your Shoes" first premiered on The Sun's

The Sun (newspaper)

The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...

 website on 21 October 2009. It uses the remix version of the song and features cameos from Nate James

Nate James

Nathaniel James Harold Speas, known as Nate James, is a British soul singer-songwriter. James released his debut soul album Set the Tone in 2005 which won him two MOBO Nominations for Best Newcomer and Best R&B Artist.He released on his Frofunk imprint via Independent Labels around the world and...

, Booty Luv

Booty Luv

Booty Luv also known as Cherise & Nadia are an English dance group formed in June 2006 via the Hed Kandi label. It is fronted by two R&B vocalists Cherise Roberts and Nadia Shepherd, both of whom were in the original line-up of the successful hip hop band Big Brovaz...

, Michael Underwood

Michael Underwood

Michael Paul Underwood is a British television presenter. He famously won a six week CBBC presenting contract on Gaby Roslin's BBC television show Whatever You Want.-Career:...

, Angelica Bell, Chipmunk

Chipmunk (rapper)

Jahmaal Noel Fyffe known by his stage name Chipmunk, is a British hip hop rapper and songwriter from Tottenham, London....

 and co-writer DJ Munro. The music video is a Top of The Pops

Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...

 spoof set in 1986 which reflects the retro style of the song.

Track listings

iTunes Digital Download

1. "In Your Shoes" (radio edit) - 2:46
2. "In Your Shoes" (featuring Chipmunk
   Chipmunk (rapper)
   Jahmaal Noel Fyffe known by his stage name Chipmunk, is a British hip hop rapper and songwriter from Tottenham, London....
   
   ) - 2:52
3. "In Your Shoes" (radio edit - instrumental) - 2:39

Amazon/Play/7Digital Digital download

1. "In Your Shoes" (radio edit) - 2:46
2. "In Your Shoes" (radio edit - instrumental) - 2:39

iTunes Remix Digital Download single (released 22 November 2009)

1. "In Your Shoes" (Sammy J remix) - 3:46

Other versions

1. "In Your Shoes" (album version) - 3:07
2. "In Your Shoes" (live) - 3:23

Charts

"In Your Shoes" failed to chart on both the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

 and the UK R&B Singles Chart

UK R&B Chart

The Official UK R&B Chart is a forty-position R&B/Hip-Hop chart compiled by The Official UK Charts Company. Although the chart does not receive any airplay, its compilation is viewed on BBC Radio 1's website and publications such as ChartsPlus and Music Week...

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