Love Again

Love AgainSingle by Dua Lipa
General information
Artist	Dua Lipa
Release date	March 11, 2021
Studio	TaP (London) Sleeper Sound (London) RAK (London) The Windmill (Norfolk) Modulator Music (Toronto)
Genre	Dance-pop, Disco, Electropop
Length	4:18
Albums	Future Nostalgia, Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition
Label	Warner Records
Songwriter(s)	Dua Lipa, Irving Wallman, Max Wartell, Bing Crosby, Clarence Coffee Jr., Koz, Chelcee Grimes
Producer(s)	Koz, Stuart Price
Singles chronology
Previous	"We're Good"
Current	"Love Again"
Next	"Demeanor"
Future Nostalgia track list
"Hallucinate"
"Love Again"
"Break My Heart"
Music video

"Love Again" is the sixth single and eighth track from Dua Lipa's second studio album, Future Nostalgia. It was released on March 11, 2021, through Warner Records.

The song also appears as the eighth track on her second reissue album, Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition.

Background

"Love Again" is based on the concept of manifesting positive things into one's life and Lipa later described it as her favourite song on the album. It was sent for radio airplay in France on March 11, 2021 as the sixth and final single from Future Nostalgia before being released for digital download and streaming on June 4, 2021 globally. It is a classic-sounding dance-pop, disco and electropop song with a 21st century nu-disco production that includes disco beats and 1970s-styled disco strings.

The song samples "My Woman" by Al Bowlly with Lew Stone and His Monseigneur Band, using it for several aspects, thus Bing Crosby, Max Wartell and Irving Wallman are also credited as writers. The lyrics explore themes of heartbreak and personal growth, seeing Lipa falling in love again with a new lover following a rough split.

Several music critics praised the use of the "My Woman" sample as well as the strings used in the production and the lyrics. Commercially, "Love Again" reached number 51 on the UK Singles Chart and number 41 on the US Billboard Hot 100 as well as number 59 on the Billboard Global 200 chart. It additionally reached the top 10 of charts in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, reaching the summit in the last of the territories. The song has been certified silver in the United Kingdom by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and platinum in both Italy and Poland by the Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI) and Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (ZPAV), respectively.

Release and promotion

"Love Again" was released through Warner Records on March 27, 2020 as the eighth track on Lipa's second studio album Future Nostalgia. A lyric video for it was released on April 9, 2020. A remix of the song by Horse Meat Disco is a part of Lipa and The Blessed Madonna's remix album Club Future Nostalgia, while the original version of the remix was released for digital download and streaming on September 11, 2020. The song was the subject of an episode of Season 2 of Song Exploder, released on December 15, 2020 on Netflix, in which Lipa and her collaborators talk about the making of the song.

Nina Braca of Billboard noted that this release, after 15 months following the release of the album, was "practically unheard of" in modern music era as "album cycles often come and go in as little as a few weeks". The song was sent for radio airplay in Italy on June 11 2021. On June 22, 2021, it was promoted to contemporary hit, adult contemporary and dance radio stations in the United States as a promotional single. The song was officially sent as a single to contemporary hit radio stations in the country on July 6, 2021 and adult contemporary radio stations on July 26, 2021. It was promoted with two more remixes: "Imanbek Remix", released on October 1, 2021 and "Garabatto Remix", released on October 15, 2021.

Commercial performance

Upon Future Nostalgia's release, "Love Again" became a relatively successful album track across Europe. The song reached number 38 in Lithuania, 107 in Portugal, 86 in Romania, 62 in Slovakia and 90 in Spain. It additionally entered at number 61 on both the UK Singles Downloads Chart and UK Audio Streaming Chart. In April 2020, the Official Charts Company reported that the song was the most downloaded album track from the album in the United Kingdom. Following its release as a single, "Love Again" debuted at number 159 on the Billboard Global 200 chart dated June 19, 2021. In October of that year, the song spent its 20th week on the chart, reaching a peak position of number 59. The song spent a total of 35 weeks on the Global 200. On France's SNEP Singles Chart, the song debuted at number 198 on the issue dated April 10, 2021, before peaking at number 41 two months later and charting for 37 weeks.

In the UK, "Love Again" debuted at number 96 on the UK Singles Chart dated June 18, 2021. It departed the chart the following week but re-entered at number 92 on the chart dated July 23, 2021. Four weeks later, the song peaked at number 51 on the UK Singles Chart, lasting for a total of nine weeks. In October 2021, it was awarded a silver certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for selling 200,000 track-equivalent units in the United Kingdom. In Ireland, the song debuted at number 87 on the Irish Singles Chart dated June 11, 2021. Two months later, the song peaked at number 36 and spent a total of 23 weeks on the chart. In the Wallonia, region of Belgium, the song debuted at number 34 in May 2021, before peaking at the runner-up position three months later. It was blocked from the summit by Ed Sheeran's "Bad Habits" (2021) and spent 27 weeks on the chart. In the Flanders region, the song also charted for 27 weeks, debuting at number 46 in June 2021 and peaking at number five the following month.

In Germany, "Love Again" charted for 18 weeks and peaked at number 44. Elsewhere in Europe, the song reached the top 10 of charts in Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia while reaching the summit in the Czech Republic. In 2022, the song was certified platinum by the Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI) for selling 70,000 track-equivalent units in Italy. In 2023 was awarded a triple platinum certification in Poland by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (ZPAV) for 150,000 track-equivalent unit sales. On the Canadian Hot 100, "Love Again" debuted at number 75 on the chart dated July 17, 2021. It spent 22 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 11 in the 14th week. It was awarded a triple platinum certification in the country from Music Canada for selling 240,000 track-equivalent units in the country. In the US, the song spent two weeks on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart before entering the Billboard Hot 100 at number 89 in July 2021. In October 2021, it peaked at number 41 and spent 16 weeks charting. The song additionally peaked at number 60 on Australia's ARIA Singles Chart and number 3 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.

Music video

The music video for "Love Again" was directed by Lope Serrano of Spanish production team Canada. Lipa contacted the production company for another collaboration following the video for her 2020 single "Physical". They were briefed with information that Lipa pictured herself on a mechanical bull for the video, it was her favourite song on the album and that the song was about a personal resurgence, not necessarily just in a romantic context. When writing the video, Serrano attempted to gather real and predictable rodeo elements and combine them in unexpected ways. The production team found new meanings of the rodeo elements to communicate in the video, including using the clown makeup for abstract painting strains so classical paintings could be used to connect shots.

They used paintings that depicted horses, romantic raptures, hugs, portraits and hyperdynamic group compositions. Serrano decided to add egg aspects to the video as he was looking for "an unexpected rhyme to the lasso routine". He thought that the wrist movement when one beats eggs is similar to a lasso movement. He also wanted to illustrate the song's romantic message, like the idea of a love coming up again that seems like a once in a lifetime experience that is pure, intense and unexpected, which he compared to "like these delicate flowers or animals that are just designed to blossom and intercourse just once and then they die" as well as the "tense connection between the humans and their recovered feelings".

The visual was filmed at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London about three weeks before its release, during rehearsals for Lipa's performance at the 41st Brit Awards. Serrano liked the idea of shooting in one place as it adds to the video's cohesiveness and makes it as though the characters are real and belong to the setting. The video's team quarantined in the hotel for a week before they began filming due to restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. This gave the team time to work in the location. Dua Lipa learned the video's choreography in 45 minutes and new outfits were added for her in the midst of filming. Serrano recalled she enjoyed being on the mechanical bull that was controlled. Steve Dent helped the team with the horse and production company Eighty4 helped with the VFX, making it so that when the horse went invisible, there was still a 3D aspect with the saddle and rider. These shots were the hardest to shoot so the team worked with the tension of the ropes attached to the horse's neck as well as adjusting its natural shadow.

Lipa formally announced the video on May 31, 2021. It premiered via YouTube on June 4, 2021. A director's cut version of the video was released on July 28, 2021. This version opens with two rodeo clowns reading a script, which is the lyrics of "Love Again", more classical paintings in the editing, less dancing, more shots of the clowns, a chicken on the TV set, Lipa riding the lighting horse as well as final credits that feature a rodeo clown riding the horse which has a green suit on.

Live performances

Lipa performed "Love Again" during her NPR Tiny Desk Concert, released December 4, 2020. Lipa described the performance as a "special" rendition of the song and the concert was filmed in London instead of Washington, D.C., where the concerts normally take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was accompanied by backup singers, a bassist, a guitarist and a drum machine.

On February 19, 2021, the singer performed a stripped-down acoustic version of the track during the 2021 Time 100 event along with her 2020 single "Levitating". Lipa performed the soft piano rendition of the song as a duet with Elton John at his AIDS Foundation Academy Award Party on April 25, 2021. She performed the song at the 41st Brit Awards as part of her set list of a Future Nostalgia Medley on May 11, 2021. The singer performed it at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 17, 2021. The song was included on the setlist of Lipa's second concert tour Future Nostalgia Tour.

Track listing

• Digital download and streaming – Horse Meat Disco Remix

1. "Love Again" (Horse Meat Disco Remix) – 5:31

• Radio airplay – French radio edit

1. "Love Again" – 2:35

• Digital download and streaming

1. "Love Again" – 4:18

• Contemporary hit and adult contemporary radio – radio edit

1. "Love Again" – 3:53

• Digital download and streaming – Imanbek Remix

1. "Love Again" (Imanbek Remix) – 3:34

• Streaming – Imanbek Remix – Spotify single

1. "Love Again" (Imanbek Remix) – 3:34
2. "Love Again" – 4:18

• Digital download and streaming – Garabatto Remix

1. "Love Again" (Garabatto Remix) – 3:29

• Streaming – Garabatto Remix – Spotify single

1. "Love Again" (Garabatto Remix) – 3:29
2. "Love Again" (Imanbek Remix) – 3:34
3. "Love Again" – 4:18

Videos

Dua Lipa - Love Again (Official Music Video)

Dua Lipa - Love Again (Official Lyrics Video)

Dua Lipa - Love Again (Imanbek Remix) -Official Audio-

Dua Lipa - Love Again (Garabatto Remix) -Official Audio-

Love Again

Love Again (Imanbek Remix)

Love Again (GARABATTO Remix)

Lyrics

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Personnel

• Dua Lipa – vocals
• Koz – production, bass, drums, guitar, synthesizer
• Stuart Price – additional production, bass guitar, keyboards
• Clarence Coffee Jr. – backing vocals
• Alma Goodman – backing vocals
• Vanessa Luciano – backing vocals
• Chelcee Grimes – backing vocals
• Drew Jurecka – baritone violin, string arrangement, string engineering, viola, violin
• Ash Soan – Tom Toms drums
• Matt Snell – engineering
• Lorna Blackwood – programming, vocal production
• Cameron Gower Poole – vocal engineer
• Matty Green – mixing
• Chris Gehringer – mastering
• Will Quinnell – assistant mastering