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David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland
Why we feature this artist The single that brought Rowland into One Love When Love Takes Over became one of the defining introductions to David Guetta's One Love period. Kelly Rowland gives the 2009 recording a full emotional arc, making the dance production f…
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- France, United States
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- House, dance-pop, R&B
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The story of David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland
Why we feature this artist
The single that brought Rowland into One Love
When Love Takes Over became one of the defining introductions to David Guetta's One Love period. Kelly Rowland gives the 2009 recording a full emotional arc, making the dance production feel like an enlargement of the song she is already singing.
The 2009 release story
The single reached number one in Britain that June. Its original presentation puts Guetta and Rowland together at a moment when their collaboration could function as a distinct pop event as well as a club record. The piano figure and the vocal made the opening recognisable before the arrangement reached its largest scale.
A performance with somewhere to go
Rowland's delivery creates a sense of rising commitment. A line can begin relatively close and finish with a much wider reach, giving the production a direction to follow. The electronic expansion then feels connected to the singer's decisions rather than arriving on its own schedule. That relationship explains the record's durability within the period's dance-pop. Its most memorable lift has already begun inside the vocal, so the beat's arrival completes a movement the listener has been following.
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When Love Takes Over
The Rowland collaboration became a British number one during the One Love campaign.