Love Is A Game/Your Guardian

"Love Is A Game/Your Guardian" is the fifth and comeback single from pop singer Ana Simpson. The single was released on July 13, 2009, exactly 4 years after the release of Simpson's debut single "Come With Me". The song was served as the first single from Simpson's comeback album 'Intensive Ground' which was released on 20 July 2009.

Song Information
"Love Is A Game" was written and produced by pop singer Alesha Kurdadze. The song which is based on chess is a metaphor for love, which is easily played and it can easily be defeated. "Love Is A Game" was originally going to be a single sided single, but the label decided to released a double-a with another song instead. Ana Simpson was quoted saying that "Love Is A Game" was one of the best songs she had ever recorded and working with Alesha was the best experience of her life. "Your Guardian" was written by Ana Simpson and it contains elements and instrumental sampler from Geri Halliwell's  'Let me Love You More'  taken from her album Passion. Ana explains the song being a feel good love tune about someone who is leaving but carrying her love everywhere he goes.

Reception
"Love Is A Game" had its radio world premiere on BBC Radio 1 on 10 June 2009 and "Your Guardian" on the next day at the same station. "Love Is A Game" received great response from other artists such as Lucreacia, Esmeralda Dimuzio, Romo among others. The Sun said "Love Is A Game has a more guitar-driven vibe and updates Simpson's sound". "Your Guardian" also received good feedback, Simpson fans called the ballad your typical Ana Simpson song but with even better vocals. Perez Hilton also received a copy of the promotional disc with both songs in it, and although he was not able to post the full song he posted clips of both of them. According to him it's Ana Simpson at her best.

Promotion
Ana Simpson performed "Love Is A Game" for the first time on Good Morning America on 15 June 2009, this was the second performance after Simpson's returned to the music scene with the first being at Save Uraps. Ana will be traveling from United States to UK throughout the whole month of June and July to promote the single and the album. Her first UK performance of both singles was on An Audience With China and Romo on the 21 June 2009. Simpson performed "Your Guardian" at GMTV on 22 June 2009 and "Love Is A Game" at This Morning on June 24. Ana also did some small gigs in the UK to promote the single.

Music videos
Ana Simpson shot the music video for "Love Is A Game" on 6 April 2009 in Malibu Beach, California. The video for "Your Guardian" was shot on 20 May 2009 in Los Angeles California. On 20 June 2009, Ana Simpson announced on her official Twitter that the video for "Love Is A Game" was set to be premiered during that week.

Love Is a Game
The video clip, in which she stretches seductively on a stretch of sand on Malibu Beach is the first video since her long hiatus after the release of 'You Gotta...' in 2006. The music video for "Love Is A Game" had its world premiere on 26 June 2009, the video shows Ana Simpson in a beach playing a piano and singing the song. Throughout the video different leaves are created around her. The video had its premiered on POPBOX on 27 June 2009. The video entered the POPBOX charts at #2.

Your Guardian
The video is all in Black & White and starts with an Ana Simpson sleeping. An angel fades in her bedroom, walks over to the bed and whispers something in her ear. As the angel finishes whispering something, the camera focuses in Ana's face and you can see her smiling. She slowly opens her eyes as the angel exits her bedroom. Ana Simpson slowly awakes and sits in her bed, she looks around and sees no one. She looks over to her window and it's open with the wind blowing in. She gets up and shuts the window. She hears something coming from outside her bedroom, she goes after to see what it is. As she walks out of her bedroom and goes down the stairs she sees fathers in the stairs. She then sees a shadow of a person with two wings. She runs down the stairs and walks in the kitchen but sees nothing. She scratches her head and walks over the fridge and grabs a water bottle. As she is pouring the water in a cup she senses something. She doesn't realize that her water cup is full and continues to pour water, the cup however never spills. Ana drops her water cup on the floor once she sees the reflection of an angel in a mirror right across where she is standing. She turns around and walks over to the piano room looking for this angel but she can't see anything. The camera turns to the side of the room and the angel is standing next to the window looking out at the stars. The angel looks at Ana as the camera follows his sight. Ana sits by the piano and starts playing a song. The camera focuses on Ana hitting the keys of the piano. She grabs a pen and a piece of paper and starts writing something. The camera changes view and shows the angel staring at Ana from the other side of the room. He sees that she is writing something and walks over to her and puts his hands on her shoulder. The camera shows Ana's face, she senses something and turns around. As she turns around she sees the angel behind her, it's a little girl. She smiles at Ana and givers her a hug. As the angel hugs Ana a flash of light is seen outside. Ana sees the bright flash outside and goes to her porch with the angel. The angel holds Ana's hand and smiles at her. The angel lets go of Ana's hand fades away slowly. Simpson looks up to the sky and sees star by star flashing and a shooting star going by. She looks a bit confused but happy. She walks back inside the house and goes to her bedroom. She looks at the mirror and smiles, she then goes back to bed. The video ends with Ana's letter being blown away by the wind at night.

Track listings
U.K. Promo CD 1
 * 1) Love Is A Game
 * 2) Your Guardian
 * 3) Love Is A Game (Instrumental)

U.K. Promo CD 2
 * 1) Your Guardian
 * 2) Love Is A Game
 * 3) Your Guardian (Instrumental)

U.K. Club Promo: Mixes
 * 1) Love Is A Game (Swatz Piper Mix)
 * 2) Love Is A Game (BGC LIFE in Jeopardy Mix)
 * 3) Love Is A Game (Roll The Motherfunking Dice Mix)
 * 4) Your Guardian (Phoenix Rising's Guardian Angel Vocal)
 * 5) Your Guardian (Hele's Electro-Pop Balladish Mix)
 * 6) Your Guardian (Paulo's Oversexxed Bossa-Nova Mix)

U.K. CD 1
 * 1) Love Is A Game
 * 2) Your Guardian
 * 3) Nothing's Whole (Original Mix)

U.K. CD 2
 * 1) Your Guardian
 * 2) Love Is A Game
 * 3) Your Guardian (Paulo's Oversexxed Bossa-Nova Mix)
 * 4) Love Is A Game (Swatz Piper Mix)

U.K. 12" Picture Vinyl
 * A1: Love Is A Game
 * A2: Love Is A Game (Hele's Vocoder Blitz)
 * B1: Your Guardian
 * B2: Your Guardian (Phoenix Rising's Guardian Angel Vocal)

Love Is A Game (International CD)
 * 1) Love Is A Game
 * 2) Your Guardian (Instrumental)
 * 3) Love Is A Game (Swatz Piper Mix)

Charts
The single entered at number 1 on the single charts selling a total of 89,990 copies, by its second week the single fell one spot to #2 selling 72,323 copies. The single sold a total of 393,621 copies and was certified Platinum.

Chart run

 * Week 01: #01 - 89,990
 * Week 02: #02 - 72,323
 * Week 03: #05 - 59,034
 * Week 04: #08 - 45,624
 * Week 05: #16 - 15,821
 * Week 06: #13 - 27,884
 * Week 07: #23 - 13,384
 * Week 08: #17 - 18,789
 * Week 09: #19 - 17,411
 * Week 10: #28 - 12,442
 * Week 11: #36 - 5,221
 * Week 12: #37 - 5,198
 * Week 13: #34 - 6,467
 * Week 14: #39 - 4,896

TOTAL: 393,621 [Platinum]