Me Too (Toby Keith song)

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"Me Too"
Toby Keith - Me Too cd single.png
Single by Toby Keith
from the album Blue Moon
B-side "The Lonely"
ReleasedNovember 18, 1996
Genre Country
Length3:53
Label A&M Nashville 578810
Songwriter(s) Toby Keith
Chuck Cannon
Producer(s) Nelson Larkin
Toby Keith
Toby Keith singles chronology
"A Woman's Touch"
(1996)
"Me Too"
(1996)
"We Were in Love"
(1997)

"Me Too" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Toby Keith. It was released on November 18, 1996 as the third and final single from his album Blue Moon . The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Keith wrote the song with Chuck Cannon.

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Content

The song is a romantic ballad from the perspective of a man who regularly struggles with saying the phrase "I love you" to his significant other, and instead performs physical tasks as a way of showing his affection to her. The only easy way for him to utter that phrase is by simply telling her "me too" after she says "I love you" to him first, hoping she will understand that means he is in agreement with what she just told him.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that it is a song that a lot of men will relate to. She goes on to say that Keith "turns in a smooth believable performance." [1]

Music video

This was the last Toby Keith video that Marc Ball directed, who has been directed Toby Keith videos since 1993. It premiered on CMT on January 12, 1997, when CMT named it a "Hot Shot". This is the first video in which Toby does not wear a cowboy hat, rather a full head of hair.

Chart positions

"Me Too" debuted at number 72 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of November 23, 1996.

Chart (1996–1997)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [2] 6
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1997)Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [4] 70
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 43

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