When Love Takes Over - Wikipedia"When Love Takes Over" is a song by French DJ- music producer David Guetta with vocals by Kelly Rowland from his fourth studio album, One Love. It was released as the lead single from the album on 2.

April 2. 00. 9 by Virgin Records (EMI France). The song was conceived when Guetta played the instrumental version during one of his DJ sets in summer 2. American recording artist Kelly Rowland, who fell in love with the track, convinced Guetta to allow her to take it so that she could write and record vocals for it.

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It was co- written by Nervo. According to Rowland, the song inspired her to pursue a more dance- oriented sound for her album Here I Am (2. Guetta noted "When Love Takes Over" for providing the framework for his future musical explorations and inspiring him to experiment with more urban sounds. Watch The New York Hat Instanmovie. Guetta and Frédéric Riesterer produced the song with piano riffs and a melodic backing track.

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Veronica Ferraro mixed the song, focussing primarily on giving Rowland's vocals a magical and inspiring tone. Critics would later state that Rowland's vocals on "When Love Take Over" helped to establish herself as a solo vocalist. The song's lyrics carry a message of the euphoria one feels when in love with a significant other, while the production bears some similarities to Coldplay's 2.

Clocks", particularly the opening riff."When Love Takes Over" received universal acclaim. Most noted the addition of Rowland's powerful and emotionally charged vocals which made the single the most memorable song from One Love. The production was praised for its lush production and euphoric sentiments. It achieved worldwide success by topping the charts in ten countries, including in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Italy and Switzerland. At the time of release, it became Guetta's highest charting single on the U.

S. Billboard Hot 1. Rowland's second number one single in the United Kingdom. When Love Takes Over" ranked at number one on Billboard's Best of 2.

Dance Club Songs chart. In 2. 01. 3, Billboard named "When Love Takes Over" its number one dance- pop collaboration of all time, in addition to noting the lasting cultural impact that the collaboration would have on dance music and its indication of the emerging electronic dance music trend in America at its time of release. In the song's accompanying music video, Rowland and Guetta reminisce of how the song came together. It follows the duo as they prepare for a party before coming together for the final result.

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When Love Takes Over" was promoted mainly at award shows, including the MTV Latin Music Video Awards, NRJ Music Awards and the World Music Awards. Guetta and Rowland reunited in late 2. When Love Takes Over" for the annual Miss Universe competition. The single earned seven Platinum certifications as well as five Gold certificates, selling over 5. Additionally, it earned Guetta two Grammy Award nominations for "Best Dance Recording" and "Best Non- Classical, Remixed Recording", the latter of which Guetta won for his "Electro Extended Mix" of "When Love Takes Over".

Background[edit]Rowland has acknowledged on several occasions that although she loved dance music, it was not really the type of music she would record. While in Europe in 2. Guetta at one of his DJ shows in Southern France and commented that "Listening to him was just crazy."[3] Guetta was playing the instrumental version of "When Love Takes Over".

Recalling that it brought tears to her eyes,[4] Rowland remarked, "I felt so much emotion from the track; something happened the first time I heard it, and it was just beautiful.[5] And I remember thinking 'Why is this touching me like this?' You know, it was like there was a kinda soul- tie to it!"[6] Upon meeting Guetta, she asked him for the song so she could write its lyrics. 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".[6] At a writing session in a London hotel room, Rowland and songwriting duo Nervo wrote the lyrics and melody over Guetta's backing track.[7] Rowland later joined Guetta and Julie Terry Lefèvre- Han in the recording studio to finish off the song.[8]Later in a 2. The Nervo Twins revealed that Rowland's record label were not keen on the song despite their and Rowland's enthusiasm. Consequently, "When Love Takes Over" was shelved until Guetta rediscovered the song when compiling his fourth studio album, One Love.[9] The finished song with Rowland's vocals and Guetta's production was premiered in March 2.

Ultra Music Festival in Miami.[5] A month later on 2. April 2. 00. 9, the single was released in Europe,[1. United States.[1.

In the UK, the single's release had to be brought forward to 1. June 2. 00. 9 to combat an "inferior" cover version released on 9 May 2. Additionally, beginning in July/August 2.

American TV channel Bravo licensed the song for a two- month period, to use for in- house advertising.[1. Recording and production[edit]The recording and mixing of "When Love Takes Over" took place in summer and autumn of 2. After Rowland heard the instrumental of "When Love Takes Over"—a piano loop- based melody with throbbing percussion—she asked Guetta if she could take the demo and several other tracks to work on. She wrote the lyrics and recorded the vocals in London, within a day.

She was aided by Australian songwriters and producers Miriam and Olivia Nervo (The Nervo Twins).[6] However the song remained unfinished until Guetta rediscovered the track while compiling his One Love album.[9] After getting selected for the album, "When Love Takes Over" was given to Frédéric Riesterer who, aside from producing the song with Guetta, was tasked the final audio mixing of the song.[1. However Riesterer decided to give the track to French mixing engineer Veronica Ferraro, who would later go on to say that "Reisterer was supposed to mix it, but he wanted me to do it and see how it turned out. The first time I heard the track I immediately knew it would be a huge hit." The track was mixed in September 2. Ferraro's Super Sonic Scale studio near Paris, the day after her birthday.[1. Before working on the song's individual elements, Ferraro converted the recording sessions from a generic digital audio workstation system to her programme of choice, Pro Tools. Following this, she decided that she would focus primarily on Rowland's vocals."Frédéric had the right sounds on the drums and the keyboards, so I did not change very much.

I just did some standard things, with EQ and compression and things like that. After that my obsession was to get the vocals to sound as good as possible.

When I'm mixing a track, I want something to happen, something that takes the listener somewhere. You want the right things in the right place, but it's not a technical issue.

It's actually an artistic issue to have everything in the right place – the mixing has to be magic. It was not difficult in this case, because I knew the song would be a hit, but I did my best to make the vocal sound magical, like an angel singing, so that the hit quality of the song was immediately obvious.

I wanted to make sure that the voice takes you from the beginning to the end and doesn't lose you."[1. Ferraro told Sound On Sound that she did add a bass drum sample, as she felt that the kick was missing something. Rather than equalise it, I added a little bit of my sample to make the BD track sound bigger".

However she did alter the two piano elements of the song, using the Flex Studio Tool to widen the sound of the piano element without the delay. Additionally, Ferraro used a number of French plug- in software to amplify many of the track's instruments, including the violin, strings and guitar samples.[1.

She then moved on to Rowland's vocals, which "were extensively processed", including equalization and de- essing. Watch The Education Of Charlie Banks Online Forbes.