I Love You's

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"I Love You's"
Hailee Steinfeld I Love You's.jpg
Single by Hailee Steinfeld
from the EP Half Written Story
ReleasedMarch 26, 2020 (2020-03-26)
Genre Pop [1]
Length3:36
Label Republic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) David Stewart
Hailee Steinfeld singles chronology
"Wrong Direction"
(2020)
"I Love You's"
(2020)
"Masterpiece"
(2020)
Music video
"I Love You's" on YouTube

"I Love You's" is a song by American singer Hailee Steinfeld, released on March 26, 2020, by Republic Records. The song samples "No More I Love You's" by Annie Lennox, thus David Freeman and Joseph Hughes are credited as songwriters. [2] The song was produced by co-writer David Stewart (not to be confused with the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart) and serves as the second single from Steinfeld's second EP Half Written Story (2020). [3]

Contents

Background

Steinfeld released an album cover, as well as dropping the name for the song on Instagram on March 24, 2020, with the caption "i love you's • march 26th". [4] [5] According to Rolling Stone , the song was inspired by Annie Lennox's "No More 'I Love You's" (1995). [6] Steinfeld spoke to EW about what inspired the song: [7]

"I went through a breakup and did not give myself enough time to heal from that before getting into another relationship. When that second relationship ended it became clear that I needed time and space to heal — I hadn't given myself that to begin with that first time around. I didn't realize the importance of that."

Composition

The song features "floaty synths" and "peppy beats". [8] Lyrically, it is about self-love and hope and is composed in the key of Emajor with a tempo of 107 beats per minute. [8]

Music video

A lyric video, created by Katia Temkin, accompanied the song's release. [9] Steinfeld co-directed the song's official music video with Sarah McColgan, [7] which premiered via YouTube on March 31, 2020. [10] The music video shot in black-and-white featuring Steinfeld wearing see-through clothing while embedded with white background in studio.

Live performances

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Steinfeld performed the song in an at-home edition of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on May 1, 2020. [11]

Credits and personnel

Song credits adapted from Tidal. [12]

Charts

Chart (2020)Peak
position
Australia Airplay (Radiomonitor) [13] 37
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [14] 14
US Digital Song Sales ( Billboard ) [15] 48

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel(s)Ref.
Various26 March 2020 Republic [16]
Australia27 March 2020 Contemporary hit radio Universal [17]
United Kingdom13 June 2020 Adult contemporary radio Republic [18]

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