The video is based on Spike Lee's 1988 film School Daze, starring Laurence Fishburne, Tisha Campbell-Martin, and Kyme, among others. Derek Luke plays Keys' love interest, and Anthony Hamilton, Jackie Long, Albert Daniels, Tristan Wilds, and Tanisha Scott make cameo appearances in the video as well. After failing to pick up sufficient airplay in the UK, the physical single was canceled there and the song charted at number one hundred and ninety-nine.Īccording to Keys' official website and official fan club, the music video for "Teenage Love Affair", directed by Chris Robinson and Andrew Young (with whom she had previously worked with on 2001's " Fallin'" and 2003's " You Don't Know My Name", among others), was filmed at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.
Swizz Beatz produced a remix of "Teenage Love Affair" featuring LL Cool J, using a sample from Slick Rick's 1988 song "Teenage Love". Keys performed the song on Late Show with David Letterman on April 29, 2008. The song was a critical and commercial success in the US entering both the Billboard Hot 100 and Pop 100 charts and climbing to number three on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. It impacted mainstream urban radio on April 21, 2008. The song ranked at number twenty-three on Rolling Stone 's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007, and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2008 BET J Virtual Awards. The track was produced by Keys and Splash and is based around a sample from The Temprees' 1972 song "(Girl) I Love You", written by Josephine Bridges, Carl Hampton, and Tom Nixon.