| You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told) | |
| Cover: | Ydkwliyjdayt1.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The White Stripes |
| Album: | Icky Thump |
| B-Side: | A Martyr for My Love for You |
| Released: | September 18, 2007 |
| Recorded: | January 14–15, 2007[1] |
| Studio: | Blackbird (Berry Hill, Tennessee) |
| Genre: | Rock[2] |
| Length: | 3:54 |
| Label: | Warner Bros. (US) XL Recordings (EU) |
| Prev Title: | Rag and Bone |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Conquest |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
"You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)" is a song written and recorded by the American alternative rock band The White Stripes. The song was first played live on June 29, 2007, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is the second track from their sixth studio album Icky Thump. The track was released as a CD single on September 18, 2007, with the 7" vinyl version of the single following on September 25.[3] The music video for "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)" premiered on MTV2 Unleashed, as well as MTV.com and MTV2.com on July 30, 2007.
The video was filmed in front of the Hudson's Bay Company historical buildings in the Apex neighborhood of Iqaluit, the capital of the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut, while the band was on tour there.
Australian R&B singer-songwriter Daniel Merriweather covered the song as a bonus track for the Japanese edition of his 2009 album Love & War.