Peak
41
Weeks
16
Score
1,089
Chart Year
2021
Scores & Rankings
Chart Performance
Peak Position41
Peak DateOct 16, 2021
Weeks at Peak1
Weeks Charted16
Weeks in Top 400
Weeks in Top 100
Weeks at #20
Weeks at #10
Scoring
Summary Calc60
Weekly Calc1,029
Total Score1,089
Rankings
Year Ranking#117
Decade Ranking#768
Billboard Year#129
Top 5000#12,509
Details
- Album
- Future Nostalgia
- Label
- Warner Music
- Genre
- Electropop
- Composer(s)
- Dua Lipa;Clarence Coffee Jr.;Stephen Kozmeniuk;Chelcee Grimes;Bing Crosby;Max Wartell;Irving Wallman
- Entered Chart
- Jul 31, 2021
- Peak Date
- Oct 16, 2021
- Released
- 11 March 2021
- Recorded
- Studio TaP (London) Sleeper Sound (London) RAK (London) The Windmill (Norfolk) Modulator Music (Tor
- Catalog #
- Warner Music
- B-Side
- n/a
Music Video
The video opens with two title cards saying Lipa's name and the song title, "Love Again". Simultaneously, a Stetson cowboy hat floats from a coat room to a ballroom where Lipa catches it and puts it on her head.[107][108][109] She wears a zebra print bikini top, belted black denim shorts, a suede vest, a cowboy hat, a bolo tie and chunky heeled boots while riding a mechanical bull;[110][111] this bull later becomes invisible as a way to make things less emphatic and literal.[100] Intercut scenes of Lipa riding the bull covered in miniature light bulbs and wearing a Phipps cowboy suit containing a green top, blue pants and a cowboy hat, also covered in miniature light bulbs, are also included,[28][112] as well as her floating in slow motion while wearing Blumarine pink bandana crop top with a lacy trim, a lavender hat, a butterfly belt buckle with diamantés, blue denim pants and pink cowboy boots.[28][111][112][113] She later waves a glowing lasso in the former scene.[114] The singer is also seen cracking eggs with different coloured yolks to later whisk them in the same bowl while rodeo clowns crack them too and paint clown faces on each other with the coloured yolks as well as making omelettes.[110][115] She wears a red-and-black denim set from a collaboration between Levi and Miu Miu with a leather jacket from the latter company's 2011 line.[111][113] Back in the ballroom, Lipa square dances and line dances with rodeo clowns as the floor is covered in eggs. She wears Rick Owens grill kiss leather boots, camouflage green cargo pants, a longline brown cow print jacket and a cow-print bra; the latter three clothing items are from The Attico.[110][111][113] Some of the rodeo clowns also appear on invisible horses.[100][116] Further on, a giant egg floats in the middle of the ballroom and the rodeo clowns attempt to capture it with lassos. The egg is eventually too much for them as it pulls them onto the floor before also becoming invisible.[28][115] A horse covered in LEDs then runs in around the hallways.[115] The "wild" horse scene is a metaphor for the idea of love, not being completely clear, while the egg scene adds to the metaphor by enhancing the people in the relationship with the cowboys, ropes and horse. Also, the floating egg being captured, tensioning its delicacy, is a metaphor for the myth of female reproduction and how weak male human violence can be.[100] The video closes with Lipa dressed as a rodeo clown, slow dancing with an anonymous person; they both wear all white. Lipa wears a red nose and wipes some of her lipstick of the same colour onto her partner's jacke
Notes
Here, Dua Lipa sings about being unexpectedly swept off her feet. I never thought that I would find a way out I never thought I'd hear my heart beat so loud I can't believe there's something left in my chest anymore But goddamn, you got me in love again After going through a toxic relationship, Lipa had given up on love, but now she's found somebody she can love again. Dua Lipa explained during an episode of the Netflix series Song Exploder that at the time she wrote the track, she was in a long-term relationship with a man who was being dishonest with her. Her inspiration was, "I need to be released from this." The song samples "My Woman" by Lew Stone & The Monseigneur Band and Al Bowlly, which Bing Crosby co-wrote and originally recorded. White Town famously sampled its trumpet instrumental in his 1997 hit "Your Woman." Both "Love Again" and "Your Woman" share the theme of an unhappy relationship and breakup. White Town is Jyoti Mishra. He told Billboard Lipa's use of the sample doubles down the motif of nostalgia on her album. "[Sometimes] when you use an old sample, it has these associations which make you think about time gone past," he said. "I think there's magic in old samples. Even though 'Love Again' is a brand new song, it's got this level of nostalgia in it." Lipa wrote the song with Clarence Coffee Jr. of The Monsters and The Strangerz production team, and with the British singer-songwriter Chelcee Grimes. I can't believe, I can't believe I finally found someone I'll sink my teeth in disbelief 'Cause you're the one that I want Chelcee Grimes fought to take out the "sink my teeth in disbelief" line, but Lipa stood firm. "'Love Again' is a testament to the fight and fire that I feel like I had," she said, "and needed to be found again." Stephen "Koz" Kozmeniuk and Stuart Price produced the track along with Lipa's vocal producer Lorna Blackwood. Koz and Price also worked together on another Future Nostalgia song, "Levitating." Koz told Song Exploder they conceived the song after an unfruitful spell in the studio when everyone was feeling the pressure. Eventually, they came up with this track, and the "Love Again" sample was added late in the process. Dua Lipa told Apple Music she wrote the song at a time when the light had gone out from her relationship. "It was a song for me, to give myself a little cuddle, and was about being hopeful that I would fall in love again," she explained. After Koz added the strings played by his neighbor, Drew Jurecka, the collaborators still felt there was something missing. It was then that Clarence Coffee Jr. had the idea of adding the Al Bowilly sample. "That really gave the song the push it needed, because we definitely needed a more dancey element," said Lipa. Lipa included a remix by Horse Meat Disco on her and The Blessed Madonna's 2020 remix album Club Future Nostalgia. Lope Serrano of the Spanish production team Canada directed the music video, which shows Lipa in the Wild West as she dons rodeo gear and rides a mechanical bull. There's also square dancing and line dancing with cowboys and lassoing clowns. According to Lipa, they shot the clip amid the preparations for her Brits performance. She learned the choreography in 45 minutes and "kept adding outfits mid shoot but we did the damn thaaaang!!"
I never thought that I would find a way out I never thought I'd hear my heartbeat so loud I can't believe there's somethin' left in my chest anymore But goddamn, you got me in love again I used to think that I was made out of stone I used to spend so many nights on my own I never knew I had it in me to dance anymore But goddamn, you got me in love again Show me that Heaven's right here, baby Touch me so I know I'm not crazy Never have I ever met somebody like you Used to be afraid of love and what it might do But goddamn, you got me in love again You got me in love again You got me in love again You got me in love again Again So many nights, my tears fell harder than rain Scared I would take my broken heart to the grave I'd rather die than have to live in a storm like before But goddamn, you got me in love again Show me that Heaven's right here, baby Touch me so I know I'm not crazy Never have I ever met somebody like you Used to be afraid of love and what it might do But goddamn, you got me in love again You got me in love again You got me in love again You got me in love again Again I can't believe, I can't believe I finally found someone I'll sink my teeth in disbelief 'Cause you're the one that I want I can't believe, I can't believe I'm not afraid anymore But goddamn, you got me in love again (La-la-la, la-la-la) (La-la-la, la-la-la) I never thought that I would find a way out I never thought I'd hear my heartbeat so loud I can't believe there's somethin' left in my chest anymore But goddamn You got me in love again (La-la-la, la-la-la) (La-la-la, la-la-la) I can't believe, I can't believe I finally found someone I'll sink my teeth in disbelief 'Cause you're the one that I want I can't believe there's somethin' left inside my chest anymore But goddamn, you got me in love again You got me in love again You got me in love again You got me in love again And again, and again, and again, and again
Chart History (16 weeks)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jul 31, 2021 | 89 | 37 |
| 2 | Aug 7, 2021 | 73 | 53 |
| 3 | Aug 14, 2021 | 65 | 61 |
| 4 | Aug 21, 2021 | 63 | 63 |
| 5 | Aug 28, 2021 | 58 | 68 |
| 6 | Sep 4, 2021 | 53 | 73 |
| 7 | Sep 11, 2021 | 66 | 60 |
| 8 | Sep 18, 2021 | 69 | 57 |
| 9 | Sep 25, 2021 | 55 | 71 |
| 10 | Oct 2, 2021 | 51 | 75 |
| 11 | Oct 9, 2021 | 57 | 69 |
| 12 | Oct 16, 2021 | 41 | 85 |
| 13 | Oct 23, 2021 | 47 | 79 |
| 14 | Oct 30, 2021 | 61 | 65 |
| 15 | Nov 6, 2021 | 66 | 60 |
| 16 | Nov 13, 2021 | 73 | 53 |