The single cover of the song shows Egan sitting on a plush red sofa and holding a white guitar. In the visual, Egan also throws pebbles out to sea before meeting up with friends around a campfire.
The footage was shot in Egan's hometown of Sligo, in County Sligo, and the singer can be seen strumming a guitar while wandering along the deserted beach. I'm incredibly excited to be able to perform this for all my fans." Music video This song means a lot to me and being able to record it was an honour. In an interview with Digital Spy, Egan said "I chose 'I'll Be' for my second single, as I've always absolutely loved this song.
The song was included on his debut album, and was released as a single on May 12, 2014, through Rhino Records. In 2014, "I'll Be" was covered by Irish musician Kian Egan. While it was only McCain's second single to chart, it became his first and only top-10 hit and his biggest hit. Under the chart rules at the time, which required songs to have a physical single release, "I'll Be" was initially ineligible for the Billboard Hot 100, but on September 8, 1998, a "very limited pressing" of the song was issued, making it then eligible it debuted at number seven on the Hot 100 on the issue dated September 26, 1998, and ultimately peaked at number five the following week. In the United States, "I'll Be" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart on the issue dated February 28, 1998, and went on to peak at number four there in November, in its 39th week on the chart. I knew that she was waiting, and I always said to her, 'Don't ever look back on this in any other way than I'll be your biggest fan.' You know, 'I'll always be a fan.'" Chart performance And it was something that I said to a girl that I'd been going out with. It was this admission of failure and this prayer that I could be a better person, wrapped up as sort of the end of a relationship kind of thought. I was struggling with some personal problems at the time, as well, so it was all of those things. And it was the hope that I would be better, grow and be better as a person. McCain said, "It was the end of a relationship for me, and it was also an admission of my inability to function in a relationship, hence the love suicide line.
Content Īlthough "I'll Be" has become a popular wedding song, McCain said "it's really more of a prayer" written in a moment of personal desperation after a break-up, the idea being that "maybe if I write my future, it'll come true." In 2015, McCain re-recorded "I'll Be" for his EP Phoenix. The album is titled Wintertime Blues: The Benefit Concert.
On December 22, 1999, McCain recorded a version with Warren Haynes on the live concert album from the 11th Annual Christmas Jam, a benefit concert for Habitat for Humanity in Asheville, North Carolina. Upon its release, the song reached number five in the United States and number 52 in Canada. Its opening melody is played with electric guitar (as opposed to acoustic on the album) and the vocal and saxophone lines differ. The radio version of "I'll Be", which was released on a CD single with "Grind Me in the Gears" as the B-side, differs from the album version. McCain recorded an acoustic version of the song for his follow-up album, Messenger. The song was serviced to US radio in October 1997 and was commercially released on September 8, 1998, as the first single from his second album, Misguided Roses (1997). " I'll Be" is a song written and performed by American singer Edwin McCain.
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