Love Don't Hate It

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"Love Don't Hate It"
Duncan Laurence - Love Don't Hate It.png
Single by Duncan Laurence
from the album Small Town Boy and the EP Worlds on Fire
Released23 October 2019 (2019-10-23)
Length2:51
Label Spark
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Tofer Brown
Duncan Laurence singles chronology
"Arcade"
(2019)		"Love Don't Hate It"
(2019)		"Someone Else"
(2020)
Music video
"Love Don't Hate It" on YouTube

"Love Don't Hate It" is a song by Dutch singer-songwriter Duncan Laurence. It was released as a digital download on 23 October 2019 by Spark Records as the second single from his debut studio album Small Town Boy , the song also features on his debut EP Worlds on Fire . [1] It is the follow-up to "Arcade", Laurence's winning entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. [2]

Contents

Background

Laurence previously stated that he did not want to rush out a follow-up to "Arcade", but rather take his time and wait until he found the right song. [2] [3] De Telegraaf announced on 14 October that fans that had attended Laurence's performance in Nijmegen were told the follow-up single would be "Love Don't Hate It". [3] Laurence called it "a song about fighting for who you are and who you choose to love" and his "answer against the hate in the world, that will always keep trying to break down what we crave most: love". [4] [5]

Live performance

Duncan premiered the song on Dutch television during De Wereld Draait Door on 23 October. [6]

Music video

A music video for "Love Don't Hate It" was released on 8 November. Directed by Ed Sayers of Seven Productions, it features Laurence in a dark area, singing amongst red lights and celluloid film effects. Bryan Kress of Billboard wrote, "With so much on the line, [Laurence] looks every bit prepared to lead the way and fight to the end." [7] In an interview with Promonews, Sayers explained the process to achieve the video's effects: "A pretty singular approach with a mix of hard and soft dynamic lighting using white and red lights and a host of special flare lens to fire firey light down the barrel and onto Super 16mm film and a little Super 8mm." [8]

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. [9]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Netherlands (NVPI) [15] Gold40,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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References

  1. ↑ "Love Don't Hate It – Single by Duncan Laurence". Apple Music . Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Dit is de nieuwe single van Duncan Laurence: 'Love Don't Hate It'". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). 14 October 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  3. 1 2 "'Dit wordt nieuwe single Duncan Laurence'". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 14 October 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝕷𝖆𝖚𝖗𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊 (@itsduncanlaurence) • Instagram photos and videos". 23 October 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26. Retrieved 24 October 2019– via Instagram.
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