1980Released
3:20

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Interesting facts and trivia about Keep on Loving You. By Songfacts®.

This song is lead singer Kevin Cronin's response after he found out his wife Denise had been cheating on him before they were married. Instead of leaving her, he decided that he would keep on loving her no matter what, as he made that promise: When I said that I loved you I meant that I loved you forever And I'm gonna keep on lovin' you Cronin called it, "The most painful song I ever wrote."

An anthem of fidelity, "Keep On Loving You" is often cited as one of the more romantic songs ever written - VH1 included it on their Top 40 Love Songs show. It didn't work out for Kevin Cronin though, as he and his wife split up a few years after the album was released. He re-married in 1992. In a Songfacts interview with Cronin, he said: "That song is a yin-yang thing, where there is obviously trouble in paradise in the verses, but I always believed that people are capable of changing, and that if your life runs into a tough spot, it doesn't mean that you necessarily have to run from it. You can also look it in the eye, and if there is enough worthwhile in the relationship to keep it going, then you give it all you've got, and that's what I did. Even in giving it all I got, at some point, we realized that it just wasn't going to work. So when I wrote that line, I meant it. I tried my best, but it just didn't happen."

REO Speedwagon was one of the first rock bands to score big with power ballads in the '80s. They had the good fortune of being one of the hottest bands in America when MTV launched on August 1, 1981, so the network played their videos, even though they were low-budget affairs. With director Bruce Gowers, they shot four videos in one day, including the clip for "Keep On Loving You," which lead singer Kevin Cronin said "made us look like even bigger dorks than we were." The video shows Cronin with a hot female psychiatrist. He explained in the book I Want My MTV: "Someone figured out that you had to have a hot chick in the video. The psychiatrist was this gorgeous model with librarian glasses. She was out of our league, big-time." Most of the band's videos were dominated by performance footage, and they weren't photogenic enough to compete on the network with the likes of Duran Duran, Van Halen and other acts who did a better job matching a picture to the sound. A few years into MTV's existence, REO was out.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Keep on Loving You.
CKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
175BPM

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The album Keep on Loving You is released on.

Released By

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Epic/Legacy
(P) 1980, 2011 Sony Music Entertainment/(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment

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