"Love Revolution" is a song by British singer

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. It was written by Young and Kish Mauve members Mima Stilwell and Jim Elliott for his sixth studio album ''

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'' (2015), while production was helmed by the latter. The song features lyrics and melody from the song "Share the Love," written by

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, which was originally released on Martin's Arista Records debut album ''The Best of Me'' in 1998 and later re-worked into the track "

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" by German DJ

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. Due to the inclusion of the sample, Matias and Martin are also credited as songwriters. Released by Island Records as the album's first single on 30 March 2015, it reached number 103 on the

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Background

"Love Revolution" was written by Young and Kish Mauve members Mima Stilwell and Jim Elliott, while production was helmed by the latter. The song features lyrics and melody from the song "

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which in turn samples from the song "Share the Love," originally and written by

and

for Martin's Arista Records debut album ''The Best of Me'' (1998). Commenting on the sample, Young said: "I didn't set out to do any samples, it's all about the music, if something comes up that works in the song, then it works in the song ..It's a great track, it came about because Jim Eliot, who does the music from Kish Mauve, came back and said "look I've flipped the track completely and we can do this" – and I said "that's awesome"."

Critical reception

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'' editor Robbie Daw felt that the song "pulls its influences from Motown, Northern Soul and legendary funk band

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, and allows for Will to completely cut loose, vocally. Like

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, we can now chalk Will Young up as another British artist currently steering clear of radio’s pure pop sound." Caroline Sullivan from ''

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'' described the song as "get-happy R&B clappiness." Mark Goggin from ''The Gay UK'' found that "Love Revolution" "throws us a funkier sound that we haven't seen from oungin a while, slightly nodding back to the soulful elements of his 2005 album ''

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'' ..Much less Euro dance though, I'm afraid, but much more summer soul that will get you dancing around your garden in no time at all."

Music video

A video for "Love Revolution" was directed by Chino Moya and premiered on Young's

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channel on 30 March 2015. The clip depicts Young as a "grinning, evangelical" salesman trying to shift his faceless ''Love Revolution'' products to his "brain-dead followers."

Credits and personnel

* Jim Eliot – producer, writer * Stuart Hawkes – mastering engineer *

– writer (sample) *

– writer (sample) * Mark Rankin – mixing engineer * Mima Stilwell – writer *

– vocals, writer

Charts

Release history

References

Will Young songs 2015 songs 2015 singles Songs written by Will Young Songs written by Jim Eliot Songs written by Andrea Martin (musician) Songs written by Mima Stilwell Songs written by Ivan Matias Island Records singles {{2010s-pop-song-stub