When Love Takes Over

"When Love Takes Over" is a song by French DJ David Guetta, featuring main vocals by American R&B singer Kelly Rowland. Recorded and composed by Guetta, Rowland, Miriam Nervo, Olivia Nervo, and Frédéric Riesterer, and mixed by Veronica Ferraro, for Guetta's fourth studio album, One Love, the track was released digitally as the album's lead single in May 2009. The track became a number one smash, topping charts in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Belgium (Wallonia), Switzerland, Slovakia, and Turkey, and on the European Hot 100 Singles. It has charted within the top five of many other European countries, as well as charting in North America becoming Guetta's second Hot 100 hit, following "Love is Gone". The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category for Best Dance Recording for the 52nd Grammy Awards. The song was also nominated for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical which was ultimately awarded to Guetta, becoming his first Grammy award. Rowland met Guetta while attending one of his shows in Southern France during the summer of 2008. She later met up with him and asked him to show her one of his tracks and what he showed her was a "pop number built around a lush piano loop and throbbing percussion" which was the early works of "When Love Takes Over". The beat moved Rowland to tears. "I felt so much emotion from the track; something happened the first time I heard it, and it was just beautiful", she said. Guetta, meanwhile, is banking on the single to garner a stronger stateside following. After being moved by Guetta's track, Rowland took the song to London and began to work on lyrics with American Songwriter Terry Lefèvre-Han. The finished product was released in March at Miami's Ultra Music Festival. "I had spent nights dancing in the South of France from 12:45 a.m. to 8 in the morning", Rowland said, "but I had never thought about recording a dance track myself. Hearing David's song made me consider taking on this whole new style." "The track with Kelly has made me experiment with a more American urban influence", Guetta says. "Musically, it's opened a new world for me. It's pure pop with a lot of detail, and Kelly had this Whitney Houston vibe and nailed it." In the United Kingdom, it was originally scheduled to be released digitally and physically on 15 June 2009. However, two other versions of the song by Airi L appeared and so the digital version was brought forward to 11 June 2009 instead. "When Love Takes Over" debuted on the UK Singles Chart on 14 June 2009 at number seven. On 21 June 2009 the single climbed to number one, becoming Rowland's second number one as a featured artist in the UK and Guetta became the first French person (excluding people of French origin) to have a number one in UK charts. It has also peaked at number one on the Irish Singles Chart. In the U.S. the song gained popularity slowly, mainly due to heavy-airplay at radio-stations, the song has sold so far over 320,000 downloads, and after Guetta and Rowland appeared at the show So You Think You Can Dance, the song entered to the iTunes Top 100 Songs. The song is also his third #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart, and also becomes Guetta's first song played on adult contemporary radio stations. Rowland and Guetta appeared at German show “The Dome”. They’ve received Gold Record for their #1 single “When Love Takes Over”. The song has so far peaked at number 1 in 10 countries.

[Verse 1] It's complicated It always is That’s just the way it goes Feels like I've waited so long for this I wonder if it shows [Pre-Chorus] Head underwater Now I can't breathe It never felt so good 'Cause I can feel it coming over me I wouldn't stop it if I could [Chorus] When love takes over, yeah You know you can’t deny When love takes over, yeah 'Cause something's here tonight [Verse 2] Give me a reason I gotta know Do you feel it too? Can't you see me here on overload? And this time, I blame you, mmm [Pre-Chorus] Looking out for you to hold my hand It feels like I could fall Now love me right like I know you can We could lose it all [Chorus] When love takes over, yeah You know you can’t deny When love takes over, yeah 'Cause something’s here tonight [Post-Chorus] Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight And I'll be loving you all the time, it's true 'Cause I wanna make it right with you [Bridge] When love takes over When love takes over When love takes over When love takes over When love takes over When love takes over When love takes over Over, over, over, over, over Over, over, over, over, over [Outro] When love takes over, yeah You know you can’t deny When love takes over, yeah 'Cause something’s here tonight