| Fearless Love | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Melissa Etheridge |
| Album: | Fearless Love |
| Released: | 2010 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 4:13 |
| Label: | Island |
| Producer: | John Shanks Jeremy Sullivan Melissa Etheridge |
| Prev Title: | Message to Myself |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Falling Up |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
"Fearless Love" is a song by Melissa Etheridge and the first single of her 2010 album Fearless Love.
Etheridge wrote the song after her young daughter suggested the title for her album. Etheridge explained to Spinner the inspiration for the lyric "I was 17, you kissed my lips":
"It was the first time I kissed a girl. I try to put my own experiences in my songs, of course, and yet have them remain universal. It was intense going through that experience and having the fireworks go off: 'Oh my God, this is greatest thing ever! This is what all my girlfriends have been talking about when they kiss boys' and stuff. I was like, 'Hmmm I don't feel that' and then all of a sudden I felt it and I had to keep it in to myself. It will eat you up. It's horrible to have to put a lid on something."[1]
The video for "Fearless Love" features actress Willa Holland[2] and was directed by Jay Martin.