I Love You's

"I Love You's" is a song by American singer Hailee Steinfeld, released on March 26, 2020, by Republic Records. The song samples "No More I Love You's" by Annie Lennox, thus David Freeman and Joseph Hughes are credited as songwriters. The song was produced by David Stewart (not to be confused with the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart) and serves as the second single from Steinfeld's second EP Half Written Story (2020).

Background
Steinfeld released an album cover, as well as dropping the name for the song on Instagram on March 24, 2020, with the caption "i love you's • march 26th". According to Rolling Stone, the song was inspired by Annie Lennox's "No More 'I Love You's" (1995). Steinfeld spoke to EW about what inspired the song:

"'I went through a breakup and did not give myself enough time to heal from that before getting into another relationship. When that second relationship ended it became clear that I needed time and space to heal — I hadn't given myself that to begin with that first time around. I didn't realize the importance of that.'"

Composition
The song features "floaty synths" and "peppy beats". Lyrically, it is about self-love and hope and is composed in the key of E♭major with a tempo of 107 beats per minute.

Music video
A lyric video, created by Katia Temkin, accompanied the song's release. Steinfeld co-directed the song's official music video with Sarah McColgan, which premiered via YouTube on March 31, 2020. The music video shot in black-and-white featuring Steinfeld wearing see-through clothing while embedded with white background in studio.

Live performances
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Steinfeld performed the song in an at-home edition of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on May 1, 2020.

Credits and personnel
Song credits adapted from Tidal.


 * Hailee Steinfeld – vocals
 * David Stewart – songwriting, production, programming
 * David Freeman – songwriting
 * Jessica Agombar – songwriting
 * Joseph Hughes – songwriting
 * Sarah "Griff" Griffiths – songwriting
 * John Hanes – engineering, studio personnel
 * Randy Merrill – mastering, studio personnel
 * Serban Ghenea – mixing, studio personnel