| "Long Distance" | ||||
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| Single by Brandy | ||||
| from the album Human | ||||
| Released | October 15, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 2008 | |||
| Studio | Boom Boom Room, Burbank, California | |||
| Length | 3:53 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
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"Long Distance" is a song by American recording artist Brandy Norwood. It was written by Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Jeff Bhasker, and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, and was co-produced by Jerkins and Mars for her fifth studio album Human (2008) based on a demo by Mars. It appears as the seventh track on the album on which it is interluded by a telephone conversation between two lovers. The lyrics of the piano–led power ballad describe the protagonist's emotional state towards an ongoing long-distance relationship, which leaves her in depression.
The song was the second and final single to precede the Human album in October 2008. It garnered a generally mixed reception from music critics who applauded the song's lyrical content, its vocals and the hymnlike character, while others found the song would sound too clichéd and outdated. Never released outside North America, "Long Distance" peaked at number 38 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and failed to enter the Hot 100 but became her second consecutive single after "Right Here (Departed)" to reach the top spot on the Dance Club Songs chart. An alternate pop remix, which featured a different instruments, was serviced to mainstream radio in February 2009.
The accompanying music video for the single was directed by Chris Robinson and filmed at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles in November 2008. Depicting Norwood as a singing diva, who remembers moments with her distant lover, the video shifts from black-and-white to color photography during its bridge. Both Mars and Lawrence appear as pianists in a sequence of the clip. In promotion of the single, Norwood performed "Long Distance" on television shows such as Today, The Tyra Banks Show, CBS News, and BET's Just Human special (2008).