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Will.i.am Feat. Eva Simons
Why we feature this artist This Is Love: the piano introduction makes the electronic lift feel larger This Is Love begins with enough space for will.i.am’s voice and piano-led setting to establish a personal scale. Eva Simons then gives the 2012 recording a mu…
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This Is Love: the piano introduction makes the electronic lift feel larger
This Is Love begins with enough space for will.i.am’s voice and piano-led setting to establish a personal scale. Eva Simons then gives the 2012 recording a much broader melodic reach, while the electronic production opens out underneath. The contrast between those settings is the main source of its drama.
The vocal change also changes the arrangement’s scale
Simons’s refrain is built to sustain a larger instrumental surface. Her voice remains clear as the beat and electronic layers become more forceful, making the passage feel like an arrival rather than a separate song attached to the opening.
The original production credits connect will.i.am, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso to the recording. That shared studio background is audible in the balance between a direct pop melody and a carefully organised electronic build. The song’s parts have different weights, but their transitions are deliberate.
The single continues through the remix programme
The original official video dates from May 2012. An August remix EP follows with treatments from Afrojack, Sidney Samson, Damien Le Roy, James Egbert and Richard Vission, keeping Simons’s featured role visible across the release.
Those alternative settings reveal how much of the recording depends on the central vocal line. The percussion can change and the instrumental can become more aggressive, yet the refrain still provides the main emotional destination. This Is Love works because the intimate opening and the larger chorus remain connected by that clear melodic purpose.
Essential releases
This Is Love
The original single moves from a piano-led opening towards Simons’s expansive refrain and a larger electronic arrangement.
This Is Love — remix EP
The original August programme gives the shared recording several distinct club interpretations.