The Way You Love Me (Faith Hill song)
"The Way You Love Me" is a song written by Keith Follesé and Michael Dulaney and recorded by American country music singer Faith Hill. It was released on February 14, 2000, as the second single from her fourth studio album, Breathe (1999), and was later released to pop radio on August 15, 2000, becoming Hill's third single serviced to the format. The track utilizes Auto-Tune for Hill's backup vocals.
"The Way You Love Me"
"Never Gonna Be Your Lady"
February 14, 2000
- 3:07 (album version)
- 3:32 (radio remix)
- Keith Follesé
- Michael Dulaney
- Byron Gallimore
- Faith Hill
"The Way You Love Me" was a commercial success. The song spent four weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 2000, becoming her eighth number-one hit. It later peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 2000, becoming her fourth top-10 hit. Internationally, the song reached the top 10 in Hungary and Spain. Country music website Wide Open Country ranked it as Hill's seventh-best song.[1]
Composition[edit]
"The Way You Love Me" moves at a tempo of 102 beats per minute.[2] The song is set in the key of C major but is transposed to D major for the pre-chorus and to E major in the chorus and bridge. The song moves in common time, and Hill's vocals span from G3 to B4 in the song.[3] In the pop version of the song, Hill's backing vocals are Auto-Tuned.
Music video[edit]
The music video for "The Way You Love Me" was directed by Joseph Kahn.[4] It first aired on television the week of August 21, 2000. The video shows Hill as many different characters, including a mother, police officer, robber, waitress, heiress, and nurse. A remix video was also made using the Love to Infinity remix, featuring Hill as one extra character: a meteorologist. American filmmaker Jennette McCurdy, who was eight years old at the time, makes a cameo in the remix music video.[5]