"I Can Love You Better" is the title of a song written by Pamela Brown Hayes and Kostas

Kostas

Kostas Lazarides is a Greek-born American country music songwriter, known professionally as Kostas. He has written for several country music artists, including Dwight Yoakam, Patty Loveless, and Travis Tritt, and has won eleven awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated...

 and recorded by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 group the Dixie Chicks

Dixie Chicks

The Dixie Chicks are an American country band which has also successfully crossed over into other genres. The band is composed of founding members Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines...

. In 1997, the song was released as the debut single of the Natalie Maines

Natalie Maines

Natalie Louise Maines Pasdar is an American singer-songwriter who achieved success as the lead vocalist for the female alternative country band, the Dixie Chicks...

 era of the group and it served as the lead single to their album Wide Open Spaces

Wide Open Spaces

Wide Open Spaces is the major label debut of American country music band the Dixie Chicks, and the fourth studio album overall, released in 1998 . It was their first record with new lead vocalist Natalie Maines, and became their breakthrough commercial success...

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The song reached number 7 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

, and represented the group's first real commercial success. The song was included in the set list

Set list

A set list, or setlist, is a document that lists the songs that a band or musical artist intends to play, or has played, during a specific concert performance...

 on the Chicks' 2000 Fly Tour

Fly Tour

The Fly Tour was the Dixie Chicks' 2000 concert tour in over 80 cities in North America in support of their album Fly.-History:Announced in mid-April 2000, this was the Dixie Chicks' first headlining tour. Moreover, the group was jumping directly to playing mostly in arenas...

, but not on tours after that. The Dixie Chicks performed a parody of the song, "No Letter Better Than B", on Sesame Street

Sesame Street

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Content

The song's narrator is assuring a man that she can love him better and make him forget his previous love.

Music video

The music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

for "I Can Love You Better" was directed by Chris Rogers. In it, the Dixie Chicks are shown performing the song while in an airport lobby. They are also shown sitting on a moving airport luggage belt, in a bakery, and on a crowded sidewalk.

Chart performance

Chart (1997)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	7
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	77
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	3