Love Is Free

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"Love Is Free"
Sheryl Crow - Love Is Free.jpg
Single by Sheryl Crow
from the album Detours
ReleasedJanuary 2008
Format Digital download, CD Single
Length3:23
Label A&M
Songwriter(s) Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell
Producer(s) Bill Bottrell
Sheryl Crow singles chronology
"Shine over Babylon"
(2007)
"Love Is Free"
(2008)
"Now That You're Gone"
(2008)

"Love Is Free" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. It was released as the second single from Crow's sixth studio album Detours . Its predecessor "Shine over Babylon" was airplay only.

Sheryl Crow American musician and actress

Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actress. Her music incorporates elements of pop, rock, country, and blues. She has released ten studio albums, four compilations, two live albums, and has contributed to a number of film soundtracks. Her songs include "All I Wanna Do", "If It Makes You Happy", "My Favorite Mistake" and the theme song for the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. She has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Crow has garnered nine Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

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Shine over Babylon 2007 single by Sheryl Crow

"Shine over Babylon" is a song recorded by American rock singer Sheryl Crow originally written and recorded by Irish folk singer Luan Parle. It was the first single released from Crow's album Detours. The song gained some radio airplay and was only released as a digital download, becoming a Triple A - top5 hit in United States.

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On her website, Crow states that she was inspired by the floods in New Orleans. "What struck me about it is the stoicism of the New Orleans people, they are very spiritually based. You can see it in their eyes that they aren't going to give up, they are going to rebuild."

Music video

The music video shows Crow singing with an acoustic guitar in a boat while coming across all kind of characters. It was directed by The Malloys.

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. There are also cases where songs are used in tie-in marketing campaigns that allow them to become more than just a song. Tie-ins and merchandising can be used for toys or for food or other products. Although the origins of the music video date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they again came into prominence in the 1980s when the channel MTV based their format around the medium. Prior to the 1980s, these kinds of videos were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip" or "film clip".

The Malloys is the working name of music video and film directors and brothers Emmett Malloy and Brendan Malloy. They are signed to Superprime Films.

The video for "Love Is Free" was added to the popular video sharing site YouTube on 17 January 2008 and has had over 1,000,000 views.

YouTube video-sharing service owned by Google

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

Track listing

Maxi CD

  1. "Love Is Free" (Album Version) - 3:23
  2. "Drunk With the Thought of You" (Live Acoustic Version) - 2:46
  3. "Shine Over Babylon" (Live Acoustic Version) - 4:01
  4. "Love Is Free" (Enhanced Music Video)

Chart performance

Chart (2008)Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [1] 46
Japan (Hot 100)10
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [1] 51
Romania (Top 100)56
Austria (Austrian Singles Chart) [1] 57
Belgium (Belgium Singles Chart) [1] 50
Germany (Media Control Charts)49
US Billboard Hot 100 [2] 77
US Billboard Adult Top 40 [2] 17
US Billboard Pop 100 [2] 63
US Billboard Adult Album Alternative 5
United Kingdom (UK Singles Chart)76
World Adult Top 208

Year-end charts

Chart (2008)Peak
position
U.S. Hot Triple A Songs18

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