Right to Be Wrong

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"Right to Be Wrong"
Joss Stone - Right To Be Wrong single cover.jpg
Single by Joss Stone
from the album Mind Body & Soul
B-side "Jet Lag" (live)
Released29 November 2004 (2004-11-29)
Studio
Length
  • 4:40 (album version)
  • 4:00 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Joss Stone singles chronology
"You Had Me"
(2004)		"Right to Be Wrong"
(2004)		"Spoiled"
(2005)

"Right to Be Wrong" is a song by English singer-songwriter Joss Stone from her second studio album, Mind Body & Soul (2004). Written by Stone, Desmond Child and Betty Wright, the track was released in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2004 as the album's second single. It peaked at number 29 on the UK Singles Chart, staying on the chart for six weeks. It was later included on the 2011 compilation album The Best of Joss Stone 2003–2009 . The song was covered in Spanish by Mexican rock singer Alejandra Guzmán on her 2004 album Lipstick , retitled "Tengo Derecho a Estar Mal" (meaning "I've Got the Right to Be Wrong").

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Stone performed a folk version of the song when she made a cameo appearance as herself in the third season of the American series American Dreams , in the episode "Starting Over", which aired on 30 January 2005.

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly's David Browne says that "Right to Be Wrong, [is] a weirdly defensive song given Stone's out-of-the-gate success". [1] Yahoo! Music's Dan Gennoe called it "late night smoulder". [2]

Commercial performance

"Right to Be Wrong" debuted and peaked at number 29 on the UK Singles Chart. [3] In United States, the song peaked at numbers 10 and 27 on the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay and Adult Top 40, respectively. [4] [5]

Track listings

UK CD single [6]

  1. "Right to Be Wrong" – 4:39
  2. "The Player" – 4:42
  3. "Don't Know How" (live performance from AOL Sessions) – 5:27

UK 7-inch single and European CD single [7] [8]

  1. "Right to Be Wrong" – 4:39
  2. "Jet Lag" (acoustic live performance from AOL Sessions) – 4:21

Personnel

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom29 November 2004 CD [17]
7-inch vinyl
United States6 December 2004 Triple A radio
[18]
10 January 2005 Hot adult contemporary radio [19]
Australia14 March 2005CD [20]

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  7. ↑ Right to Be Wrong (UK 7-inch single sleeve). Joss Stone. Relentless Records, Virgin Records, S-Curve Records. 2004. REL 13, 0724387662179.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  8. ↑ Right to Be Wrong (European CD single liner notes). Joss Stone. Virgin Records, S-Curve Records. 2004. 0724387662124.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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