"Screwed" is a song by Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton

Paris Whitney Hilton is an American businesswoman, heiress, and socialite. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton . Hilton is known for her controversial participation in a sex tape in 2003, and appearance on the television series The Simple Life alongside fellow socialite and childhood...

 from her debut album, Paris

Paris (Paris Hilton album)

Paris is the debut studio album by American media personality and singer Paris Hilton, released on her own label, Heiress Records, in association with Warner Bros. Records. The album was released in the United States on August 22, 2006...

, written by Kara DioGuardi

Kara DioGuardi

Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality. She writes music primarily in the light pop-rock, dance, and R&B genres. DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists; her songs have appeared on more than 159...

 and Greg Wells

Greg Wells

Greg Wells is a multiple Grammy nominated musician, record producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Wells has produced and written hits with Adele, Weezer, Pink, Theophilus London, Deftones, Katy Perry, Rufus Wainwright, The All American Rejects, OneRepublic, Mika, Aerosmith, Burt Bacharach,...

. The track was rumoured to have been a single throughout Asia, but neither promo CDs from Warner Music exist, nor does a music video.

Song information

"Screwed" was planned to be the debut single from Hilton's album, with a version being leaked in mid-2004, but plans were scrapped as the album was retooled and legal issues arose. Since then, the song has been continuously rumoured to be a single. Hilton claims that the song is about a girl who is in love but knows that her lover is not her soulmate

Soulmate

A soulmate is believed by some to be the person with whom one has a feeling of deep or natural affinity, similarity, love, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality, or compatibility. A related concept is that of the twin flame or twin soul, which is thought to be the ultimate soulmate...

.

The song was planned to be Hilton's first single. A low quality mp3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 of the song was leaked in August 2004 from a KIIS-FM

KIIS-FM

KIIS-FM is a Los Angeles, California, USA-based radio station with a partial Top 40 musical format. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications. KIIS is also simulcasted on KVVS in Rosamond, at 105.5 MHz...

 radio broadcast. A higher quality, official remix by Alex G

Alex Gaudino

Alex Gaudino is a record producer and disc jockey from Salerno, Italy.-Early Career :Alex was born in Salerno, Italy...

 leaked a few months later.

The song was also recorded and planned for release by Haylie Duff

Haylie Duff

Haylie Katherine Duff is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is the older sister of actress and singer Hilary Duff...

 on her upcoming debut album Walk the Walk. Hilton and Duff went through legal battles for the song in 2005, with Hilton emerging victorious.

Due to the early leak of the song, Hilton has since chosen "Stars Are Blind

Stars Are Blind

-Release history:-Chart performance:"Stars Are Blind" was one of the highest debuting singles in the U.S. in 2006, entering the Billboard Hot 100 at number eighteen due to strong digital sales. It had previously debuted at number two on the U.S...

" as her first single instead.

Hilton re-recorded the song in 2006

2006 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.-January:*January 10 – Eric Burdon releases his album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band....

. The version that appears on the album has a different arrangement to the leaked version, with a more disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

sound to it.