At the APRA Music Awards of 2024, the song was nominated for Most Performed Australian Work and Most Performed Pop Work.[4]
Background and promotion
"Love Again" was one of Laroi's unreleased songs that had been circulating on social media the year before.[5] He first unveiled and performed the song at the 2022 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball.[6][7] The release date was revealed at the end of the music video for the promotional single, "I Can't Go Back to the Way It Was (Intro)".[8] The song was featured in Laroi's 'Wild Dreams' Fortnite experience as part of his partnership with Epic Games.[9]
Composition and lyrics
On "Love Again", Laroi mourns what once was a past love, and questions whether or not it will ever return, singing over a soft, acoustic guitar and fuzzed out instrumentation. He sings in the chorus, "Can we find love again?/ Is this time the end?/ Tell me."[1][10][11]Billboard's Jason Lipshutz wrote that the song "recalls the raw acoustic nerve" of Laroi's breakout hit, "Without You", and "offers clipped, unflinching rhetorical questions while trying to find resolution in a relationship".[2]
Commercial performance
In Laroi's native Australia, "Love Again" debuted at number 14 on the ARIA Singles Chart.[12] The following week, the song climbed to number six, marking his sixth top-10 hit on the chart.[13] It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 18 before rising to number 16 a week later.[14]
Music video
The official music video for "Love Again", directed by Adrian Villagomez,[15] premiered with the single's release on 27 January 2023.[10] It sees Laroi in a toxic relationship with Londond0ll, a life-size blond doll that Laroi followed on Instagram earlier in the week.[16][17] The two are seen driving around together, cuddling on the beach, and getting into arguments before rekindling their love at the end of the video.[16][17]
↑ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select 25. týden 2023 in the date selector. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
↑ "ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select 6. týden 2023 in the date selector. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
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