Background and Composition
The song was written and recorded by Canadian recording artist Fefe Dobson for her unreleased second album Sunday Love. Dobson explained on an August 2009 interview with MTV News,
"I wrote a song, she dug it, and she sang it. But I didn't want it for my record. It just wasn't right for me, and I just felt like it was better for someone else, and she does a great job on it. I was really impressed. She sounded great. I'm actually happier she did it than I did it."Dobson sings background vocals, along with Anne Preven, on Cyrus' version of the song. Among other personnel are: Paul Bushnell for bass guitar, Scott Cutler and David Levita for electric guitar, Josh Freese for drums and Jeff Turzo for keyboard. The song has an extreme use of pop rock, meanwhile still incorporating teen pop and dance-pop. It is set in common time with a moderately fast tempo of 150 beats per minute. The song is written in a key of G major. Cyrus' vocals spans one octave, from G3 to B4. The song has the following chord progression, Dm7—Am—G5. In an interview with Access Hollywood on the set of the music video, Cyrus mentioned that the song was involved with romance and "the guy that I'm supposed to 'start all over'". Lael Loewenstein, writing for Variety, stated that "Breakout" and "Start All Over" "touch on the theme of self-reinvention".
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