Music Video: David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over

"When Love Takes Over" is a song by French DJ David Guetta, featuring main vocals by American singer Kelly Rowland. Recorded and composed by Guetta for his fourth studio album, One Love (2009), the track was released digitally as the album's lead single on April 21, 2009.

Production

Rowland met Guetta while attending one of his techno shows in France in summer 2008. She later met up with him and asked him to show her one of his tracks and what he showed her was a "pop number built around a lush piano loop and throbbing percussion" which was the early works of "When Love Takes Over." The beat moved Rowland to tears. "I felt so much emotion from the track; something happened the first time I heard it, and it was just beautiful," Rowland says. Guetta, meanwhile, is banking on the single to garner a stronger stateside following.

After being moved by DJ Guetta's track Rowland took the song to London and began to work on lyrics. The finished product was released in in March at Miami's Ultra Music Festival. Rowland and Guetta will continue to perform the track at his continent-crossing DJ tour this summer. "I had spent nights dancing in the South of France from 12:45 a.m. to 8 in the morning," Rowland says, "but I had never thought about recording a dance track myself. Hearing David's song made me consider taking on this whole new style." "The track with Kelly has made me experiment with a more American urban influence," Guetta says. "Musically, it's opened a new world for me. It's pure pop with a lot of detail, and Kelly had this Whitney Houston vibe and nailed it." The success of "When Love Takes Over" comes at an intriguing time in Rowland's career. An amicable split with Columbia in March led the singer to explore other media, and she landed on Bravo's "The Fashion Show" as a co-host with style guru Isaac Mizrahi. The reality show premiered May 7.

The track samples Coldplay's hit song, Clocks.

David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over Music video

In the video, Guetta went on to say the plot of the video is similar to the song, "You see Kelly walking her path, her story and me on the other side." In the clip you can see Kelly walking alone down a road, and singing on the beach as the sun is setting. Guetta is seen pushing his DJ equipment around town until they meet at at party. "They share that love and share it with the other people to make that big party," said Guetta. In the end Rowland and Guetta meet up and finish the song at the party. Jonas Akerlund directed the video.

Chart Performance

In the UK, it was originally scheduled to be released digitally and physically on 15 June, however 2 fake versions of the song appeared on the UK iTunes top 100 chart (with one of them reaching number 7) and so the digital version was released on 11 June instead. It currently sits at number 1 on the UK iTunes singles chart as of the 12th June 2009. In the U.S. is gaining popularity slowly, mainly to heavy-airplay at radio-stations, the song has sold so far 35,510 downloads in two weeks.

"When Love Takes Over" is officially the new #1 club anthem in the U.S. climbing to the top of the Billboard Dance Chart next week! On top of that, the single is really catching fire at pop and dance radio, with airplay on Z100/NYC, WKTU/NYC, Pulse 87/NYC, B96/Chicago, Movin'/SF and others!