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I Love You
I Love You cover
Song by Billie Eilish
Album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Released March 29, 2019
Genre(s) Pop
Length 04:52
Label(s) Darkroom, Interscope
Producer(s) Finneas O'Connell
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? chronology
Listen Before I Go
(12)
I Love You
(13)
Goodbye
(14)

I Love You (stylized in all lowercase) is a song recorded by Billie Eilish for her debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which was released on March 29, 2019 through Darkroom and Interscope Records. Eilish co-wrote the song with her brother Finneas O'Connell, who also handled production. As the 13th track on the album, "I Love You" is an acoustic ballad accompanied by various plane-related noises, where Eilish's lyrics describe the resistance to falling in love with someone.

The song received mainly positive reviews from music critics, several of whom praised the music and lyrical content. For promotional purposes, "I Love You" was performed live during Eilish's 2019 When We All Fall Asleep Tour and her 2020 Where Do We Go? World Tour. When the album was released, the song reached number 53 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and charted in several other countries. It was certified platinum in the United States and Canada by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Music Canada (MC), respectively.

Background and release[]

On March 29, 2019, "I Love You" was released as the 13th track on Eilish's debut studio album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? The song was written by the singer and her brother Finneas O'Connell, known under his stage name of Finneas, who also solely produced it. It was recorded in Finneas' bedroom studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles. Mastering and mixing was handled by studio personnel John Greenham and Rob Kinelski, respectively. Casey Cuayo received credit as studio personnel and an additional mixer. Eilish shared in an Instagram story on March 25, 2020, a playlist of her inspirations for the track, which included songs from Phoebe Bridgers, Post Malone, Ry X, XXXTentacion, Bon Iver, and Sufjan Stevens. Finneas later explained in an interview with Pitchfork that the song "was written prior to being recorded" and that the "second verse is about sitting on the tarmac on a plane".

Lyrics[]

[Verse 1]
It's not true
Tell me I’ve been lied to
Crying isn't like you, ooh
What the hell did I do?
Never been the type to
Let someone see right through, ooh

[Chorus]
Maybe won't you take it back?
Say you were tryna make me laugh
And nothing has to change today
You didn’t mean to say "I love you"
I love you and I don't want to, ooh

[Verse 2]
Up all night on another red-eye
I wish we never learned to fly
Maybe we should just try
To tell ourselves a good lie
Didn't mean to make you cry

[Chorus]
Maybe won't you take it back?
Say you were tryna make me laugh
And nothing has to change today
You didn't mean to say "I love you"
I love you and I don't want to, ooh

[Bridge]
The smile that you gave me
Even when you felt like dying

[Outro]
We fall apart as it gets dark
I'm in your arms in Central Park
There's nothing you could do or say
I can’t escape the way I love you
I don’t want to, but I love you, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

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