Me Too (song)

"Me Too"
Single by Toby Keith
from the album Blue Moon
B-side "The Lonely"
Released November 18, 1996
Format CD Single, 7"
Genre Country
Length 3:53
Label A&M Nashville 578810
Writer(s) Toby Keith
Chuck Cannon
Producer(s) Nelson Larkin
Toby Keith
Toby Keith singles chronology
"A Woman's Touch"
(1996)
"Me Too"
(1996)
"We Were in Love"
(1997)

"Me Too" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Toby Keith. It was released in November 1996 as the third and final single from his album Blue Moon. The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Keith wrote the song with Chuck Cannon.

Content

The song is a romantic ballad from the perspective of a man who regularly struggles with saying the phrase "I love you" to his significant other, and instead performs physical tasks as a way of showing his affection to her. The only easy way for him to utter that phrase is by simply telling her "me too" after she says "I love you" to him first, hoping she will understand that means he is in agreement with what she just told him.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that it is a song that a lot of men will relate to. She goes on to say that Keith "turns in a smooth believable performance."[1]

Music video

This was Toby's last music video to be directed by Marc Ball and premiered in early 1997.

Chart positions

"Me Too" debuted at number 72 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of November 23, 1996.

Chart (1996-1997) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[2] 6
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1997) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] 70
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 43
Preceded by
"Running Out of Reasons to Run"
by Rick Trevino
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number-one single

March 8, 1997
Succeeded by
"We Danced Anyway"
by Deana Carter

References

  1. Billboard, November 20, 1999
  2. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 3159." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. March 24, 1997. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  3. "Toby Keith Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Toby Keith.
  4. "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1997". RPM. December 15, 1997. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  5. "Best of 1997: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1997. Retrieved July 17, 2013.