| "Just the Way It Is, Baby" | ||||
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| Single by The Rembrandts | ||||
| from the album The Rembrandts | ||||
| B-side | "New King" "LP Medley" |
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| Released | 1991 | |||
| Format | CD single, CD maxi 7" single, 12" maxi |
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| Recorded | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 4:06 | |||
| Label | Atco Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Phil Solem, Danny Wilde | |||
| The Rembrandts singles chronology | ||||
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"Just the Way It Is, Baby" is a 1991 song recorded by American pop-rock duo The Rembrandts. Released under Atco Records label, it was the first single from band's album The Rembrandts. It first appeared on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart in 1990, then became a top ten hit one year later in France where it remained charted for 16 weeks, and Austria. It was a moderate hit in other European countries and Australia. The song is generally deemed as the band's first big hit.
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The song is sung in a first-person narrative about a man's relationship with a woman who does not reciprocate his inherent feelings, and regards their sexual encounter is nothing more than casual. The song's title reflects the woman's response to the man's unspoken questions. Later in the song, the woman realizes her mistake and returns to him, trying to mend fences, only to find that the man has moved on and has no feelings left for her, turning on her with her own words.
| Chart (1990) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks[1] | 13 |
| Chart (1991) | Peak position |
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[2] | 26 |
| Austrian Singles Chart[2] | 9 |
| Dutch Mega Top 100[2] | 53 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart[2] | 9 |
| German Singles Chart[2] | 6 |
| Swedish Singles Chart[2] | 23 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[3] | 14 |