| "Touch Me" | ||||
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| Single by Smash cast feat. Katharine McPhee | ||||
| from the album The Music of Smash | ||||
| Genre | Dance-pop | |||
| Length | 3:50 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Ryan Tedder Bonnie McKee | |||
| Smash cast singles chronology | ||||
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"Touch Me" is an original song introduced in the eighth episode of the first season of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "The Coup". It is written by Ryan Tedder and Bonnie McKee.[1] In the show's universe, the song is written by Tedder, who plays himself.
In the episode, because there are problems with the storyline for the Bombshell musical about Marilyn Monroe, choreographer and director Derek Wills (Jack Davenport) and producer Eileen Rand (Anjelica Huston) seek a new direction for the show without telling songwriting duo Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and Julia Houston (Debra Messing). Derek enlists Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) to work with him. He has gotten Tedder to write a song that shows a more contemporary and edgy side of Marilyn Monroe, and Karen, with dancers enlisted by Derek, along with Tedder and his band, performs the song in front of Tom and Julia, on a bed and wrapped in a bedsheet while dancers playing paparazzi swirl around her.
The song is on the cast album The Music of Smash.
As of May 9, 2012[update], the song had sold 18,000 digital copies.[2]