Love On

Album

Single

Label

Interscope Records

Genre

Disco

Duration

1:00

Composer(s)

Selena Gomez;Isaiah Tejada;Jordan K. Johnson;Julia Michaels;Michael Pollack;Stefan Johnson

Entered Chart

Mar 9, 2024

Peak Date

Mar 9, 2024

Released

February 22, 2024

Recorded

2021

In early December 2023, Selena Gomez revealed on Instagram that she had been quietly dating producer Benny Blanco for six months. This buoyant, flirtatious song finds the "Single Soon" hitmaker happy and loved up. Gomez invites listeners aboard with a bold chorus, declaring "I'm no mere cheap thrill" before urging her love interest to "jump on." The verses playfully discard formalities, opting for stolen moments and unexpected memoirs in places like "the back of a car" or "the last stall in the bathroom at The Bazaar." The bubbly disco-pop anthem kicks off with a snippet of French dialogue sampled from the 2019 song "L'Amour" by Swedish producer LiQWYD. The conversation translates to one person playfully declaring their intention to christen the other with the endearing term "tender love," foreshadowing this song's unabashed embrace of desire. The steamy lyrics were inspired by the couple of months that Selena Gomez spent living in Paris. "I had to work there and I loved just the quality of life and how romantic it felt," she told Apple Music's Zane Lowe. "And then to kind of feel really happy in my life and actually mean it is so." Gomez wrote "Love On" with Julia Michaels, Michael Pollack, and the song's producers, Tejada and The Monsters & Strangerz. Singer-songwriter Julia Michaels has co-penned several of Gomez's hits, including "Good For You," "Hands To Myself" and "Lose You to Love Me." New York songwriter Michael Pollack and The Monsters & Strangerz production team have worked together on several previous occasions, including Maroon 5's "Memories," Miley Cyrus' "Prisoner" and Justin Bieber's "Anyone." The very French music video shows Gomez lounging and dancing around a luxurious chateau as various couples make out.

Wait ‘til I turn my love on
Wait ‘til, wait ‘til
Wait ‘til I turn my love on
I’m no cheap thrill
I’m a rollercoaster ride, baby jump on
Come on, come on
Cause baby if you can’t tell – you’re what I wanna love on, ohh

This doesn’t have to be some sort of mathematical equation
Slip off your jeans, slide in the sheets, screaming “yes” in quotations
Clock in, baby get to work
Night shift but with all the perks
Time stamping when you fell in love
Time can’t mess with us

Oooh, if you think about falling, got you covered like garments
Oooh, I deserve an applause for, keeping you up late ‘til you can’t see straight,
Just wait, woo!

Wait ‘til I turn my love on
Wait ‘til, wait ‘til
Wait ‘til I turn my love on
I’m no cheap thrill
I’m a roller coaster ride, baby jump on
Come on come on
Cause baby if you can’t tell, you’re what I wanna love on, ohh!
Wait ‘til I turn my love on
Wait ‘til wait till
Wait ‘til I turn my love on
You’ll get your thrill
Just promise you’ll be patient with the outcome
Come on
Cause baby if you can’t tell, you’re what I wanna love on

Why we conversing over this steak tartare when we could be
Somewhere other than here making out in the back of a car
Or in the back of a bar
Or we could make a memoir, yeah
On the back wall of the last stall in the bathroom at the bazaar

Oooh, if you think about falling, got you covered like garments
Oooh, I deserve an applause for, keeping you up late ‘til you can’t see straight,
Just wait, woo!

Wait ‘til I turn my love on
Wait ‘til, wait ‘til
Wait ‘til I turn my love on
I’m no cheap thrill
I’m a roller coaster ride, baby jump on
Come on come on
Cause baby if you can’t tell, you’re what I wanna love on, ohh!
Wait ‘til I turn my love on
Wait ‘til, wait ‘til
Wait ‘til I turn my love on
You’ll get your thrill
Just promise you’ll be patient with the outcome
Come on
Cause baby if you can’t tell, you’re what I wanna love on

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Wait ‘til I