"Believe in Love" is a song by

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dance music project

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, featuring

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n singer

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. On February 18, 2009, the original version of the song was simultaneously released with an acoustic version of the song, found on BoA's " Eien / Universe / Believe in Love" single.

Background and development

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, Tomoyuki Tanaka (otherwise known as Fantastic Plastic Machine) and

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, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the

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record label. The first single from this project was "I Rave U" (2008), featuring

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. BoA had collaborated with Osawa previously in 2002, on his single " Everything Needs Love" under the name

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, and had worked with Takahashi in 2004, when she appeared on

's single "The Love Bug". The single features three songs: the B-side is a collaboration with

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, her first release under the Avex Trax label after parting with

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, as well as "Mega Ravex", a

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of songs that would later appear of Ravex's debut album '' Trax''. BoA's acoustic version was backed by Brazilian guitarist Shigeharu Sasagao. This version was found on her " Eien / Universe / Believe in Love", and was added to her ''

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'' compilation album a month later.

Critical reception

CDJournal described the song as "a full-scale painful heart-string pulling song". For BoA's acoustic version, they noted that Sasagao's guitar accompaniment made the song into a "shining bossa-style ballad".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Believe in Love 2009 songs 2009 singles Avex Trax singles BoA songs Japanese-language songs Songs written by Shinichi Osawa 2000s ballads