"The Lover in Me" | ||||
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Single by Sheena Easton | ||||
from the album The Lover in Me | ||||
Released | 11 October 1988 | |||
Genre | Dance-pop[1] | |||
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Label | MCA | |||
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"The Lover in Me" on YouTube |
"The Lover in Me" is a song by Scottish singer Sheena Easton for her ninth studio album of the same name (1988). Released as the album's lead single on 11 October 1988, the song became Easton's first top-20 hit in the United Kingdom after a seven-year hiatus. The song was also Easton's final top-10 single on the US Billboard Hot 100.
"The Lover in Me" was written by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Antonio "L.A." Reid and Daryl Simmons, and produced by Reid and Babyface, who were at the peak of their success at the time as a songwriting and production team.
...but she made it up to #2 with 1988's "The Lover In Me," a squelchy new jack swing-adjacent dance-pop jam...