"Love Incredible" is a song by Norwegian

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and record producer

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, featuring Cuban-American singer

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. It is Cabello's first solo

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since leaving the American girl group

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. The electropop and R&B- pop song was released on February 17, 2017, through Interscope Records and Mad Love as the third single from Cashmere Cat's debut studio album, '' 9'' (2017).

Background and composition

In May 2016,

and

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spent time in a recording studio, where they recorded "Love Incredible". The song was leaked on January 30, 2017, and is Cabello's first solo single since leaving

in December 2016. Musically, "Love Incredible" is an electropop and R&B- pop song, which contains elements of dance. The song begins mellow with Cabello using a high

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, accompanied by synthesizers that pick up with a thumping

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. The music is built around a grinding electronic dance music chorus, where Cabello sings over glassy

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and a muted bassline, "This love's incredible, credible / Have a little mercy on me, baby / You got me wanting more, wanting more / Of your love".

Critical reception

Kat Bein from '' Billboard'' compared the song to Cashmere's previous releases, describing it as a "tune that sounds like it fits in perfectly with the rest of the work from his upcoming debut LP '' 9''." Christina Lee of ''

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'' praised the production and Cabello's vocals on the song, calling it "dramatic, though dreamy electro-pop that still has enough sing-along moments for summer festival playlists to come, with processed vocals featured alongside Camila's own falsetto. Danny Schwartz of the site '' HotNewHipHop'' also praised the song's production and wrote that it is "an accurate summation of the Cashmere Cat aesthetic: a strawberry Starbust of a pop song with an unexpected and enrapturing

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-gasm appended to the end." Sasha Geffen from '' MTV News'' gave a different opinion about Cabello's voice on the song, writing: "Cashmere Cat whips Camila's voice through a bevy of effects, making her sound more like a giddy android than a girl-group expat."

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of '' 9''. Publishing * Published by Infinite Stripes / Back Hair Music Publishing (BMI) / Administered by Universal Music Publishing (BMI), Please Don’t Forget To Pay Me Music / Administered by Universal Music Publishing (GMR), MSMSMSM Ltd (PRS) / Brill Building Music Publishing LLC all rights administered by Kobalt Music Group., Milamoon Songs (BMI), TNT Explosive / UMPG (ASCAP), TNT Explosive / UMPG (ASCAP) Management * Camila Cabello appears courtesy of Epic Records, a division of

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Personnel *

– DJ, songwriting, production *

– vocals, songwriting *

– songwriting, production * Sophie – songwriting, production *

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– songwriting

Charts

References

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