"The Way You Love Me" is a song written by Keith Follesé and Michael Dulaney and recorded by American

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singer

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. 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

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for Hill's backup vocals. "The Way You Love Me" was a commercial success. The song spent four weeks at number one on the US ''

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chart in May 2000, becoming her eighth number-one hit. It later peaked at number six on the ''Billboard''

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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.

Composition

"The Way You Love Me" moves at a

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of 102 beats per minute. The song is set in the key of

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but is transposed to

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for the

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and to

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in the

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and

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. The song moves in

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, and Hill's vocals span from G₃ to B₄ in the song. In the pop version of the song, Hill's backing vocals are

Music video

The

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for "The Way You Love Me" was directed by Joseph Kahn. 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, nurse and meteorologist. Three different edits were made, one using the album version, one using the radio remix and one using the Love to Infinity remix. American filmmaker

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, who was eight years old at the time, makes a cameo in both the album version and Love to Infinity remix music videos.

Track listings

* US CD and cassette single # "The Way You Love Me" (radio remix) – 3:31 # "Never Gonna Be Your Lady" – 5:31 * Australian maxi-CD single # "The Way You Love Me" ( Love to Infinity Recall radio edit) # "The Way You Love Me" (radio remix) # " Breathe" # "The Way You Love Me" (Love to Infinity Master Mix Recall) * European CD and cassette single # "The Way You Love Me" (Love to Infinity Recall radio edit) # "The Way You Love Me" (radio remix) * European maxi-CD single # "The Way You Love Me" (Love to Infinity radio mix) – 2:56 # "The Way You Love Me" (radio remix) – 3:31 # "Never Gonna Be Your Lady" – 5:31 # "The Way You Love Me" (Love to Infinity Master Mix) – 6:30

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Way You Love Me, The 1999 songs 2000 singles Faith Hill songs Music videos directed by Joseph Kahn Song recordings produced by Byron Gallimore Songs written by Keith Follesé Songs written by Michael Dulaney Warner Records Nashville singles