That's the Way (My Love Is)

Infobox Single
Name = That's the Way (My Love Is)


Artist = The Smashing Pumpkins
from Album = Zeitgeist
Released = September 10, 2007
Format = CD Single
Recorded = 2007
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:44
Label = Reprise Records
Writer = Billy Corgan
Producer = Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Terry Date
Chart position = * #25 (US Modern Rock)
* #34 (US Mainstream Rock) [Artist Chart History: Smashing Pumpkins. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=5700&model.vnuAlbumId=933126]
* #94 (UK)
Last single = "Tarantula"
(2007)
This single = "That's The Way (My Love Is)"
(2007)
Next single = "Superchrist"
(2008)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Zeitgeist
Type = studio
prev = Bleeding the Orchid
prev_no = 3
this_track = That's the Way (My Love Is)
track_no = 4
next = Tarantula
next_no = 5

"That's the Way (My Love Is)" is a song written by Billy Corgan and performed by The Smashing Pumpkins on their album "Zeitgeist".

"That's the Way (My Love Is)" is the second, and final, commercial single from the album, and was released to radio in August of 2007, with a retail single in September. The music video was released August 29, 2007 on the band's MySpace and was directed by P.R. Brown, who directed the videos for "Tarantula" and Corgan's "Walking Shade." The song was played live on "The Late Show with David Letterman" on July 13, 2007. [cite web | url = http://billboard.com/bbcom/discography/index.jsp?pid=5700&aid=984412 | title = Billboard.com - Smashing Pumpkins Discography|date = 2007-06-30 ]

Billy Corgan commented that the song initially sounded like an outtake from 1995's "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness", [Chamberlin, Jimmy and Billy Corgan. (Interview subjects) " [http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=15248145 Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist Track by Track] " (video).] but it was slowed down and given a different drum beat in the course of recording the song. [Chamberlin, Jimmy and Billy Corgan. (Interview subjects) "XM Artist Confidential". 2007-07-10.]

Some of the formats contain a solo guitar and vocal live performance of "Daydream" by Corgan recorded on 5th of June 2007 in Berlin, Germany [ [http://www.spfc.org/songs-releases/discog.html?discog_id=215 spfc.org : discography : That's the Way (My Love Is) ] ]

Track listing

UK CD single
# "That's the Way (My Love Is)" -3:48
# "Stellar" -6:27
# "Daydream" (Live)" -2:54

7" vinyl and US CD single
# "That's the Way (My Love Is)" -3:48
# "Daydream" (Live)" -2:54

Music Video

The music video is directed by P.R. Brown, who also directed the videos for "Tarantula" and Corgan's "Walking Shade". It is set in a dull, gray, futuristic world. Most of the video is set up on a loose plot of Corgan trying to follow a woman. The video then cuts to the band performing on a platform, still in the futuristic world, while images of the band (and a brief apparition of Paris Hilton) float around on screens.

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