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David Guetta Feat. Chris Willis
Why we feature this artist Chris Willis within the writing of Love Is Gone Love Is Gone carries Chris Willis's voice, but the original 2007 credits also place him among the songwriters. The Pop Life single documents a partnership in which the singer helped sha…
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- France, United States
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- House, dance-pop
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The story of David Guetta Feat. Chris Willis
Why we feature this artist
Chris Willis within the writing of Love Is Gone
Love Is Gone carries Chris Willis's voice, but the original 2007 credits also place him among the songwriters. The Pop Life single documents a partnership in which the singer helped shape the material as well as deliver it.
The Pop Life recording team
David Guetta, Joachim Garraud and Frédéric Riesterer appear alongside Willis in the original writing credits, with the production credited to Guetta and Garraud with Fred Rister. Guetta's official video preserves those details and identifies the recording's place on Pop Life.
The sentence that keeps returning
The vocal's repeated central statement gives the instrumental a clear emotional reference point. Willis can make that statement sound weighty without needing to change the song's premise each time it returns. The electronic hook supplies a different kind of insistence, precise and regular beneath a performance with a more human grain. That friction keeps the record from becoming merely a repeated announcement. The words remain simple, but the combination of the singer's attack and the production's fixed pulse gives each entrance renewed force.
Essential releases
Love Is Gone
The Pop Life single credits Willis as a writer as well as the featured vocalist.