When Love Takes Over
| When Love Takes Over | |
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| David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland | |
| publication | April 21, 2009 |
| length | 3:10 |
| Genre (s) | Dance , disco , trance , synth pop |
| Author (s) | Miriam Nervo, Olivia Nervo , Kelly Rowland, David Guetta, Frédéric Riesterer |
| Publisher (s) | Square Rivoli Publishing, K Gal Publishing, Razor Boy Music Publishing AB, Rister Editions |
| Label | Virgin, EMI |
| album | One love |
When Love Takes Over (English for When love takes over ) is a song of the French DJs and producers David Guetta , he with the US American singer Kelly Rowland has taken. The song was released as the first single from the album One Love on April 21, 2009. When Love Takes Over was produced by David Guetta and Frédéric Riesterer.
background
Kelly Rowland has stated on several occasions that dance music is actually not the type of music she wants to record. In 2008, however, she met Guetta in the south of France at one of his DJ appearances. Guetta played the instrumental version of When Love Takes Over; then she cried:
“I felt so much emotion from the track; something happened the first time I heard it, and it was just beautiful. And I remember thinking 'Why is this touching me like this?' You know, it was like there was a kinda soul-tie to it! "
“This title was so close to me! When I first heard him, something happened that was just beautiful. And I remember thinking: Why does this affect me so? You know, it was kind of like my soul was connected to this song. "
After meeting Guetta, Rowland asked if she could write the lyrics for the song.
"So I met David and asked him for the track ... He gave it to me, and I brought it back here to London, UK and wrote the actual song."
"So I met him and asked for the title ... He gave it to me and I brought it back to London and wrote the lyrics."
Rowland later met Guetta in the recording studio to record the song.
Recording and production
The song was recorded and mixed in the summer and autumn of 2008. After Kelly Rowland received a demo of the instrumental piano version of When Love Takes Over with drums, she wrote the lyrics for it and recorded the piece in London within a day. She got support from the Australian songwriters Miriam Nervo and Olivia Nervo (The Nervo Twins ). The song was not followed up by Guetta at the time until he began recording his studio album, One Love . After the song had been selected for the studio album One Love, Guetta commissioned Frédéric Riesterer to do the final mixing of the song.
composition
When Love Takes Over is a synthpop dance "uplifting floor-filler" song produced by David Guetta and Frédéric Riesterer. Jason Lipshutz from Billboard Magazine described the song as a pop number, built with a piano loop and pounding drums, with disco beats and trance elements.
Music video
Background and concept
The music video was shot on May 19, 2009 in Venice near Los Angeles by Jonas Åkerlund . Guetta said the video should reflect the song's story, concept, and creation:
"You see Kelly doing her thing and then me on the other side doing mine. Eventually we come together just like how we recorded the song. It's all about sharing the love from this record and making a big party. "
“You see Kelly doing her thing and I do mine. At some point we will come together, just like we recorded the song. It's about sharing the love that emanates from this record and about celebrating it. "
The music video premiered on June 8, 2009 on David Guetta's YouTube channel.
content
The video shows Kelly Rowland walking to the beach in Venice Beach . David Guetta walks to the beach with his DJ equipment at the same time. At the end of the video, David Guetta and Kelly Rowland can be seen together at a late night party .
Charts
Chart placements
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Annual charts
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Contributors
- David Guetta - songwriter , producer
- Kelly Rowland - songwriter , vocals
- Miriam Nervo - songwriter
- Olivia Nervo - songwriter
- Frédéric Riesterer - songwriter , producer
- Véronica Ferraro - mixer
- Bruno Guel - Mastering
Awards for music sales
| country | Awards | Sales |
|---|---|---|
 Australia
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2 × platinum | 140,000 |
 Belgium
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gold | 15,000 |
 Denmark
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platinum | 30,000 |
 Germany
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platinum | 300,000 |
 France
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gold | 75,000 |
 Italy
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platinum | 30,000 |
 Canada
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gold | 40,000 |
 New Zealand
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platinum | 15,000 |
 Austria
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2 × platinum | 60,000 |
 Switzerland
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platinum | 30,000 |
 Spain
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platinum | 60,000 |
 United Kingdom
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platinum | 600,000 |
| All in all |
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1,430,000 |
Web links
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- ↑ Papermag.com ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2010 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Independent.co.uk
- ^ Comment from Rowland at reuters.com
- ↑ comment from Rowland at bluesandsoul.com
- ↑ Quote from Kelly Rowland (bluesandsoul.com)
- ↑ dancemusic.com
- ↑ bluesandsoul.com
- ↑ couriermail.com
- ↑ soundonsound.com
- ↑ latimes.com
- ↑ popmatters.com
- ↑ allmusic.com
- ↑ reuters.com
- ↑ about.com ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ allmusic.com
- ↑ Making-of of the video from Youtube
- ↑ Music director on mtv.ca ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Quotation from David Guetta
- ↑ Music video on Youtube
- ↑ Chart placement of the single When Love Takes Over in Germany ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chart placement of the single When Love Takes Over in Austria
- ↑ Chart placement of the single When Love Takes Over in Switzerland
- ↑ Chart placement of the single When Love Takes Over in the British charts
- ↑ Chart placement of the single When Love Takes Over in the United States
- ↑ Chart placement of the single When Love Takes Over in France
- ↑ Chart placement of the single When Love Takes Over in Germany (annual charts) ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chart placement of the single When Love Takes Over in Austria (annual charts)
- ↑ Chart placement of the single When Love Takes Over in Switzerland (annual charts)
- ↑ Chart placement of the single When Love Takes Over in the British charts (annual charts) ( Memento from December 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
