Love Shoulda Brought You Home

Infobox Single
Name = Love Shoulda Brought You Home


Artist = Toni Braxton
Album = "and" Toni Braxton
Released = December 1, 1992
Format = CD single, 12" single
Recorded = 1991–1992
Genre = R&B
Length = 4:56
Label = LaFace
Writer = Babyface, Daryl Simmons, Bo Watson
Producer = Antonio "L.A." Reid, Babyface, Daryl Simmons
Last single = "Give U My Heart"
(1992)
This single = "Love Shoulda Brought You Home"
(1992)
Next single = "Another Sad Love Song"
(1993)

"Love Shoulda Brought You Home" is the first solo single from Toni Braxton. The song written by Babyface, Daryl Simmons, and Bo Watson, and was featured on the "Boomerang" soundtrack. It served as the follow-up to Braxton's duet with Babyface entitled "Give U My Heart". Those pair of songs were submitted to Anita Baker but due to her impending pregnancy, she had to decline. [cite web |url=http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/braxton-toni-biography |title=Braxton, Toni Biography: Contemporary Musicians |accessdate=2008-01-05 |work=eNotes.com] The single became a top forty hit on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 and her second consecutive top five hit on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks.

The music video showed an angry Braxton—alternating between a long sweater (as a dress) and a suit complete with tie. She is fed up with her boyfriend and testifies that if he really cared, then love should have brought him home last night.

The title is also a direct line from the movie "Boomerang". In the movie, an angry Halle Berry tells her man, (Eddie Murphy), after he spent the night with another woman, "Love should've brought your ass home last night".

The 1992 single was included on Braxton's eponymous debut album that arrived in stores during the summer of 1993.

Track listing

;U.S. CD single
#"Love Shoulda Brought You Home" (Radio Edit) – 4:16
#"Love Shoulda Brought You Home" (Album Version) – 4:57
#"Love Shoulda Brought You Home" (Slow Sensual Mix) – 3:33

;UK CD single
#"Love Shoulda Brought You Home" (Radio Edit) – 4:16
#"How Many Ways" (R. Kelly Radio Edit) – 4:02
#"How Many Ways" (Radio Edit Album Version) – 4:20
#"The Christmas Song" – 3:25

Charts

References