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This midtempo collaboration,a song about conflicted love, was the third single from Good Girl Gone Bad. It was co-written by Ne-Yo and production group StarGate and hit number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Rihanna told MTV:
[Ne-Yo] also did one called ‘Hate That I Love You,’ which is a duet between...
[Intro: Rihanna & Ne-Yo]
Yeah, yeah
Hey, yeah, huh
That's how much I love you (Yeah; No, whoa, whoa, huh)
That's how much I need you (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Verse 1: Rihanna & Ne-Yo, Both]
And I can't stand you
Must everything you do make me wanna smile (Uh)
Can I not like you for a while? (No)
But you won't let me
You upset me, girl, and then you kiss my lips
All of a sudden, I forget (That I was upset)
I can't remember what you did
But I hate it...
You know exactly what to do
So that I can't stay mad at you
For too long, that's wrong
But I hate it
You know exactly how to touch
So that I don't wanna fuss and fight no more
Said I despise that I adore you
[Chorus: Rihanna & Ne-Yo]
And I hate how much I love you, boy (Yeah)
I can't stand how much I need you (I need you)
And I hate how much I love you, boy (Yeah, ooh whoa)
But I just can't let you go
And I hate that I love you so
[Verse 2: Ne-Yo & Rihanna, Both]
Ooh, and you completely know the power that you have (The power that you have)
The only one that makes me laugh (One that makes me laugh)
Said that it's not fair
How you take advantage of the fact
That I... (I)
Love you beyond the reason why (Why)
And it just ain't right, oh
[Chorus: Ne-Yo & Rihanna]
And I hate how much I love you, girl (Hey)
I can't stand how much I need you (Hey, hey)
And I hate how much I love you, girl (No)
But I just can't let you go (Ooh)
But I hate that I love you so
[Bridge: Rihanna & Ne-Yo, Both]
One of these days, maybe your magic won't affect me (Hmm)
And your kiss won't make me weak
But no one in this world knows me the way you know me
So you'll probably always have a spell on me
Yeah...
Ooh, oh, oh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Chorus: Rihanna & Ne-Yo, Both]
That's how much I love you (How much I need you)
That's how much I need you (How much I love you)
That's how much I love you (Oh, I need you)
That's how much I need you (I need you)
And I hate that I love you so
And I hate how much I love you, boy (Hey!)
I can't stand how much I need you (Can't stand how much I need you)
And I hate how much I love you, boy (Girl)
But I just can't let you go (But I just can't let you go, no)
But I hate that I love you so (Ooh)
And I hate that I love you so, so
Hate That I Love You was written by Ne-Yo & Mikkel Storleer Eriksen & Tor Erik Hermansen.
Rihanna released Hate That I Love You on Thu May 31 2007.
Ne-Yo said in an interview:
The best way to express an emotion like love is through storytelling. It makes it more ‘I can relate to this character in this song, because I’ve been through something similar.’ You hear that kind of storytelling in the song that I wrote for Rihanna called ‘Hate That I...