 "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)" was written by Lohan as a letter to her father, Michael Lohan, who was incarcerated in June 2005 after surviving a car crash for which he was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. Additional writing and song production was done by Greg Wells and Kara DioGuardi, who revealed, "If you solo the vocals you 'll hear race cars, because we brought the studio to [Lindsay's] trailer on Herbie: Fully Loaded. I 'm not kidding! She had no time to do the record, so she would be on her lunch break, and I'd be like, 'Throw that thing down your throat and get over here,' cause we got to finish these vocals! 'So I sat for 14 hours on the set and would grab her for, like, 10 minutes at a time. The poor girl. That's the reality of young Hollywood. When they 're hot, they're worked to death. It was 18 / 20-hour days. ... And I swear: 'Vroom! Vroom!' You can hear it in the back." "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)" was first previewed at AOL Music's First Listen on September 30, 2005, and was sent to mainstream radio in the United States on October 18, 2005, as the lead single from A Little More Personal (Raw). The song was released digitally in the United States on November 8, 2005, while being released internationally on January 15, 2006 by Casablanca Records.
