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This Is Love (will.i.am song)

"This Is Love"
Will.i.am - This Is Love.jpg
Single by will.i.am featuring Eva Simons
from the album #willpower
Released June 1, 2012 (2012-06-01)
Format Digital download
Recorded 2011-2012
Genre Dance-pop, hip house, electro house
Length 4:42 (Album version)
4:07 (Radio Edit)
Label will.i.am, Interscope
Writer(s) Eva Simons, William Adams, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, Max Martin, Mike Hamilton
Producer(s) will.i.am, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso
will.i.am singles chronology
"Great Times"
(2011)
"This Is Love"
(2012)
"Hall of Fame"
(2012)
Eva Simons singles chronology
"I Don't Like You"
(2012)
"This Is Love"
(2012)
Music video
"This Is Love" on YouTube

"This Is Love" is a song written and recorded by American hip hop artist will.i.am for his fourth studio album, #willpower. The song features vocals from Dutch singer-songwriter Eva Simons. "This Is Love" was released as the first single from #willpower on June 1, 2012, and the song made its debut on Capital FM on May 14, 2012. The music video, directed by will.i.am himself, was released on May 25, 2012.

The song was co-produced by Swedish House Mafia DJ's, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso. Work on the song started in late December 2011, and was partially recorded and completely mixed outside of the recording studios, on will.i.am's personal laptop.Eva Simons, whose vocals are featured on "This Is Love", was personally asked by will.i.am himself to lend vocals to the song. Simons told MTV News,

The music video for "This Is Love" was shot in London, with part of it shot at Potter's Fields on the South Bank of the Thames near Tower Bridge, in mid-May. It was released via VEVO on May 25, 2012.

The music video starts with will.i.am playing a Grand Piano on the grass on the south bank of the Thames near Tower Bridge, engraved with the brand new #willpower era style will.i.am logo. He is accompanied by a laptop, displaying pictures of a nightclub (Cirque Le Soir in Soho, with Eva Simons appearing inside. During Simons' bridges and choruses, the video crosses to the nightclub, displaying pictures of the club in action, Simons and Adams inside singing their respective verses. Over time, the video crosses back and forth between will.i.am at South Bank and Eva Simons inside the night club. It ends with both Adams and Simons at South Bank, with a group of violinists during the final chorus and pyrotechnic displays during Simons' final vocal chorus.


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