Love Reaction

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"Love Reaction"
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Single by Divine
from the album The Story So Far
Released1983
Genre Disco [1]
Length5:31
Label Break
Songwriter(s) Bobby Orlando
Producer(s) Bobby Orlando
Divine singles chronology
"Shoot Your Shot"
(1982)		"Love Reaction"
(1983)		"Shake It Up"
(1983)

"Love Reaction" is a song by American performance artist Divine, released as a single in 1983. The song was later included on the 1984 compilation album The Story So Far . [2] It has been noted for its similarity to New Order's song "Blue Monday", released earlier in 1983, with Alexis Petridis of The Guardian calling it "basically... 'Blue Monday' with a new vocal" and producer Bobby Orlando "Blue Monday"'s "most vociferous disciple". [3]

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Chart performance

"Love Reaction" became Divine's third single to chart on the Dutch singles chart. It debuted at No. 35 before climbing to and peaking at No. 25 in its second week. The song spent a total of 4 weeks on the chart. [4]

"Love Reaction" spent a total of 7 weeks on the German singles chart and peaked at No. 55. It spent one week at its peak. [5]

Track listings

  1. "Love Reaction" – 5:31
  2. "Love Reaction" (radio version) – 3:20
  3. "Love Reaction" (instrumental) – 5:00
  1. "Love Reaction" (album version) – 5:34
  2. "Love Reaction" (special maxi version) – 6:58
  3. "Love Reaction" (instrumental version) – 4:04

Charts

Chart (1983–1984)Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [8] 24
Dutch Singles Chart [9] 25
Finnish Singles Chart [10] 27
German Singles Chart [5] 55
UK Singles Chart [11] 65

References

  1. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Divine - The Best of Divine: Native Love (1991) Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 23, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Divine - the Story So Far".
  3. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (March 8, 2023). "Forty years of New Order's Blue Monday: who inspired it and who it inspired". The Guardian . Retrieved April 14, 2025.
  4. ↑ Divine - Love Reaction Dutch Charts Online. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  5. 1 2 Divine - Singles Archived 2017-10-09 at the Wayback Machine Musicline.de (in German). Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  6. ↑ Divine - Love Reaction Dutch Single Discogs. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  7. ↑ Divine - Love Reaction German Single Discogs. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  8. ↑ "Divine – Love Reaction" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved April 14, 2025.
  9. ↑ Divine - Discography Dutch Charts Online. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  10. ↑ "Artistit DIC - DOC" (in Finnish). Suomen listalevyt. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  11. ↑ "Divine". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 2010-06-15.
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