I Love You (Woodkid song)

"I Love You"
Single by Woodkid
from the album The Golden Age
Released February 9, 2013
Recorded 2011
Genre Baroque pop
Length 3:51
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Yoann Lemoine
  • Ambroise Willaume
Producer(s) Ambroise Willaume
Woodkid singles chronology
"Run Boy Run"
(2012)		 "I Love You"
(2013)

"Run Boy Run"
(2012)		 "I Love You"
(2013)
Music video
"I Love You" on YouTube

"I Love You" is the third single by Woodkid, taken from his debut album The Golden Age. It was co-written by Lemoine himself and by Ambroise Willaume. Arrangements were added by Willaume. B-sides for the I Love You single were Towers, I Love You (Booka Shade Remix), and The Deer.

The single was released on 9 February 2013 as a warm-up to the imminent release of the album The Golden Age on 18 March 2013, whereas earlier two singles had been released much earlier, with "Iron" being released on March 28, 2011 and "Run Boy Run" on May 21, 2012.

Charts

Single release
Chart (2013) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[1] 21
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[2] 28
France (SNEP)[3] 22
Germany (Official German Charts)[4] 61

In other media

The song, covered by an unknown female artist, was used in a commercial entitled The Notebook for a South African insurance company.[5] It is also used as background music in the Dauntless club scene in the 2014 movie Divergent.

The song was used in a commercial entitled The Absolute Femininity for Christian Dior and starred by Charlize Theron.[6]

The song was also in a movie series of "Tatort", a German TV-programme, called "Freddy tanzt" (Freddy dances).[7]

The song was also used in L'Écume des jours (Boris Vian).

It was the song of the Paris bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics with the bid concept and slogan "Made for Sharing".

References

  1. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Woodkid – I Love You" (in Dutch). Ultratip. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  2. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Woodkid – I Love You" (in French). Ultratip. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  3. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Woodkid – I Love You" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  4. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Woodkid – I Love You". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  5. ↑ http://10and5.com/2015/01/14/the-notebook-a-heartstring-pulling-tvc-for-dialdirect/
  6. ↑ Liviu Marica. "Christian Dior: Dior J'adore – The Absolute Femininity". Daily Commercials. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  7. ↑ http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/tatort-aus-koeln-freddy-tanzt-mit-zitaten-von-klee-feist-normahl-a-1015968.html
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