"We Think It's Love" is a song by Leah Haywood

Leah Haywood

Leah Haywood is an Australian pop rock singer-songwriter and producer. Born in New Zealand, she grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and recorded a top 40 album, Leah, released in 2001 on Epic Records, which contained her Top 10 single, "We Think It's Love". Two more Top 40 hits followed with...

, released as her debut single in early 2000. It is Leah's biggest hit off her debut album "Leah"

Leah (album)

"Leah" is the debut and only album ever released by Leah Haywood in Australia. Originally, the album was meant to be titled off one of the album tracks called "My Own Thing" but was changed closer to the release date. One of the tracks on the album titled "One Word" was featured on the second...

 staying in the Australian ARIA Top 50 singles chart for nearly up to five months. It was later covered by Swedish Idol contestant Nathalie Schmeikal. Co-written by Leah and Jorgen Elofsson, the song deals with a lover confronting his or her partner about their relationship that they cannot "get it right" and that maybe it has "been going on far too long". The song has also been featured a few times on the popular Australian soap drama Neighbours

Neighbours

Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...

and also on the soundtrack of the film What Women Want

What Women Want

What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic comedy film, directed by Nancy Meyers and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. The movie was a box office success with a domestic gross of $182,811,707 and a worldwide gross of $374,111,707, against a budget of $70 million.-Plot:Nick Marshall, a Chicago...

, and in the film itself.

At first it was not a huge hit, debuting at #41 but, as the weeks went by, the single slowly climbed its way into the top 10, peaking at #7, and spending 4 months in the Australian Top 40. This was partly due to its radio influence and music video being on heavy rotation helping single sales to increase and move up the charts. By the end of 2000, it was ranked as the 79th overall highest selling single on the Australian ARIA Singles charts.

The single was released in three formats. It was first released as a digipak single where it housed a special "clear disc" and then later in a slimline jewel-case packaging which came with bonus stickers of Leah and other "Sony" music label artistes and an enhanced multimedia screensaver section on the disc. It was finally released on a 12" vinyl which contained two remixes that were unavailable on either CD single releases.

Both CD releases contained the ballad B-side track "And If I Could", which never appeared on the album. The track was co-written and co-produced by Leah and Sydney music producer Barbara Griffin.

Music video

There are two completely different music videos for We Think It's Love. The original video was shot in early 2000 and featured Leah in a futuristic underground basement club where she meets her boyfriend and tells him off before walking away and leaving the place. During the bridge of the song she is seen running in slow motion in the middle of the rain. Throughout the second chorus there is a special shot of Leah singing with a few dancers in the back where the frame is paused while the camera continues to turn 180 degrees left and right giving a sense of a 3D world. The video ends with Leah leaving a voicemail message to her lover that they have been "going on far too long", with the words appearing on her computer screen in the same way that video started out with her settling down on to her computer seat.

An alternate video was shot a few months later in Barcelona where Leah enters a modern house full of advanced technological surroundings which is transformed into a large garden maze during the second chorus. The garden maze is then transformed back into the modern-tech house before changing into a forest with Leah during the bridge of the song. Towards the climax of the video, there are shots of a wet Leah singing under a waterfall just as the video fades out of her walking across a room in the modern-tech house.

Cameron Casey directed the alternate video. It is also likely that the alternate music video was shot specifically for the UK market, since Leah was about to start promoting the song in the UK months after it had charted successfully in Australia. The alternate version was soon to be featured in the Australian commercial promo for her album, even though it was rarely ever aired in full (or possibly never at all) on Australian television.

Track listing

Digipak CD single

1. We Think It's Love (3:17)
   
2. We Think It's Love (Discotheque Club Remix Edit) (4:02)
3. We Think It's Love (Patric's Lounge Remix) (4:55)
4. And If I Could (3:35)

Slimline jewel case CD single

1. We Think It's Love (3:17)
2. We Think It's Love (Discotheque Club Remix Edit) (4:02)
3. We Think It's Love (Patric's Lounge Remix) (4:55)
4. And If I Could (3:37)
5. Multimedia

12" vinyl
Side 1

1. We Think It's Love (Tasty Club Remix)
2. We Think It's Love (Discotheque Club Remix)

Side 2

1. We Think It's Love (Kitten's Kitchen Sink Remix)
   
2. We Think It's Love (Patric's Club Remix)

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart	7