Look Me in the Heart

"Look Me in the Heart"
Single by Tina Turner
from the album Foreign Affair
B-side	"Steel Claw" (live)
Released	March 24, 1990 (1990-03-24)
Genre	Pop
Length	3:46
Label	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Billy Steinberg Tom Kelly
Producer(s)	Dan Hartman
Tina Turner singles chronology
"Steamy Windows" (1990) "Look Me in the Heart" (1990) "Foreign Affair" (1990)
Music video
"Look Me in the Heart" on YouTube

"Look Me in the Heart" is a song by American recording artist Tina Turner. It was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and produced by Dan Hartman for Turner's seventh solo studio album, Foreign Affair (1989). Released as a single in March 1990 by Capitol Records, it reached number 23 on the Irish Singles Chart and number 31 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The single was released in a variety of formats, including a live recording of the Private Dancer track "Steel Claw", remixes of "Look Me in the Heart" and the 1987 "Tina Turner Montage Mix", a nine-minute megamix including tracks from Private Dancer and Break Every Rule .

Critical reception

Bill Coleman from Billboard magazine wrote, "Soul-drenched popper should be embraced by several formats. From the underappreciated Foreign Affair album." ^[1] Greg Kot from Chicago Tribune felt "Look Me in the Heart" "bears an uncanny resemblance" to her earlier cover of Al Green's soul classic "Let's Stay Together". ^[2] In a retrospective review, Pop Rescue declared it as a "pretty standard little pop song", that "lacks anything more than another saxophone solo and some breathy synths as interest points." ^[3]

Track listings

• US 7-inch and cassette single; Australian 7-inch single

1. "Look Me in the Heart" – 3:42
2. "Stronger Than The Wind" – 3:59

• French 7-inch and UK 7-inch and cassette single

1. "Look Me in the Heart" – 3:42
2. "Steel Claw" (live) – 4:41

• French CD single

1. "Look Me in the Heart" – 3:42
2. "Steel Claw" (live) – 4:25
3. "The Best" (Extended Mighty mix) – 6:37

• UK CD single

1. "Look Me in the Heart" (L.P. version) – 3:42
2. "Look Me in the Heart" (12-inch remix) – 5:22
3. "Steel Claw" (live) – 4:25
4. "Look Me in the Heart" (instrumental) – 3:39

• UK CD single limited

1. "Look Me in the Heart" (7-inch remix) – 3:44
2. "Look Me in the Heart" (instrumental) – 3:41
3. "The Tina Turner Montage Mix" – 8:54

• UK 12-inch single

1. "Look Me in the Heart" (12-inch remix) – 5:22
2. "Steel Claw" (live) – 4:25
3. "Look Me in the Heart" (instrumental) – 3:39

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1990) Peak position Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) [4] 28 Canada Adult Contemporary ( RPM ) [5] 12 Europe (European Hot 100 Singles) [6] 77 France (SNEP) [7] 44 Ireland (IRMA) [8] 23 Luxembourg (Radio Luxembourg) [9] 18 UK Singles (OCC) [10] 31 US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [11] 8

Year-end charts Chart (1990) Position Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM) [12] 96

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)	Label(s)	Ref.
United States	March 24, 1990	7-inch vinyl	Capitol	[7]
Australia	May 7, 1990		Interfusion Festival	[13]
	May 14, 1990	Cassette		[14]
United Kingdom	July 30, 1990	7-inch vinyl 12-inch vinyl CD	Capitol	[15]
	August 13, 1990	Limited-edition CD		[16]

References

1. Coleman, Bill (February 24, 1990). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard . p. 79. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
2. Kot, Greg (September 17, 1989). "'Foreign Affair' lets Turner head home". Chicago Tribune .
3. "Review: "Foreign Affair" by Tina Turner (CD, 1989)". Pop Rescue. September 30, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
4. "Top RPM Singles: Issue 9015." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
5. "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 9135." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
6. "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media . September 1, 1990. p. IV.
7. "Tina Turner – Look Me in the Heart" (in French). Le classement de singles. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
8. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Look Me in the Heart". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
9. Radio Luxembourg Singles. August 12, 1990.
10. "Tina Turner: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
11. "Tina Turner Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved September 12, 2013.
12. "Top 100 Adult Contemporary Tracks of 1990". RPM. December 22, 1990. Retrieved October 1, 2015– via Library and Archives Canada.
13. "New Release Summary: Singles". The ARIA Report . No. 17. May 6, 1990. p. 17.
14. "New Release Summary: Singles". The ARIA Report. No. 18. May 13, 1990. p. 19.
15. "New Singles". Music Week . July 28, 1990. p. 27.
16. "New Singles". Music Week. August 11, 1990. p. 27.