The Love Club (song)

"The Love Club" is a song by New Zealand singer Lorde, taken from her debut extended play The Love Club EP (2013). It was written by Lorde and Joel Little, while production was handled by Little. "The Love Club" addresses the befriending of "a bad crowd."[2] Upon the release of the EP, the song was well received by music critics and peaked at number 17 on the New Zealand Singles Chart. It was certified gold by Recorded Music NZ and the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for exceeding 7,500 sales and 35,000 shipments, respectively.

"The Love Club"
Song by Lorde
from the album The Love Club EP
RecordedGolden Age Studios (Auckland)
GenreElectropop[1]
Length3:21
LabelUniversal
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Joel Little

Background and promotion

In 2012, The Love Club EP was made freely available on SoundCloud.[3] Later in March 2013, the EP was released for digital sales on iTunes Stores through Universal Music Group.[4] The EP featured songs solely written by Lorde (credited under her birth-name Ella Yelich-O'Connor) and Joel Little and produced by Little, including "The Love Club".[5] To promote the EP, Lorde held a concert at Le Poisson Rouge in New York and performed the song among other tracks from The Love Club EP on 6 August 2013, becoming her first US show.[6] On 9 August 2013, Lorde performed "The Love Club" and "Royals" on KCRW radio station.[7]

"The Love Club" is an electropop song.[1] It addresses the befriending of "a bad crowd."[2] Lorde explained the song's lyrical meaning to New York magazine, "'The Love Club' is about an experience I had about a year ago where I met all these new friends and I fell in with them. It happened overnight and I couldn't think of anything but our friends and our situation. Then I started to maybe realise that group wasn't so good for me, and that my old friends and my family are the people I should be with. It's about being drawn into this crazy world, and you’re all in love".[8]

Reception

Upon its release, "The Love Club" received mainly positive reviews from music critics. Writing for The New Zealand Herald, Chris Schulz wrote that the song was "the start of something very special indeed."[9] James Christopher Monger from AllMusic and The Nelson Mail writer Nick Ward picked it as one of the EP's standout tracks, alongside "Royals".[10][2] Sharing similar sentiments, Todd Luling from The Huffington Post labelled the song "a perfect pop song".[1] Nick Manson from mX labelled "The Love Club" a "light-hearted" track.[11]

Commercially, the song peaked at number three on the New Zealand Artists Singles Chart on 25 March 2013,[12] and at number 17 on the New Zealand Singles Chart on 10 June 2013.[13] "The Love Club" was eventually certified gold by Recorded Music NZ and the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for exceeding 7,500 sales and 35,000 shipments, respectively.[14][15] In the United States, the track peaked at number 18 on the Hot Rock Songs, a Billboard auxiliary chart.[16] The song was listed at number 60 on the 2013 year-end Hot Rock Songs chart.[17] Moreover, it charted at number 20 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles.[18] "The Love Club" was included in the charity album Songs for the Philippines to support the people in the Philippines who suffered from Typhoon Haiyan (2013).[19]

Charts

References
  1. Luling, Todd (2013-07-01). "Who Is Lorde? 16 Reasons She Could Be The Next Queen Of Pop". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  2. Ward, Nick (2013-06-13). "Lorde: The Love Club EP". The Nelson Mail. Fairfax New Zealand. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  3. Lipshutz, Jason (2013-12-05). "New Zealand's Broods Signs To Capitol In U.S., Preps Debut Album with Lorde's Producer". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
  4. "The Love Club – EP by Lorde". New Zealand: iTunes Store. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  5. "The Love Club – Lorde". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
  6. Lipshutz, Jason (2013-08-07). "Lorde Hypnotizes At First U.S. Show: Live Review". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
  7. Wass, Mike (2013-08-13). "Lorde Gives A Positively Regal Live Rendition Of 'Royals' At KCRW: Watch". Idolator. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
  8. Stoffel, Kat (2013-06-29). "Meet Lorde, the Teen Pop Star with a No Selfies Policy". New York. Retrieved 2014-05-27.
  9. Schulz, Chris (2013-03-21). "Album review: Lorde, The Love Club EP". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  10. Christopher Monger, James. "Lorde: The Love Club EP – Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  11. Mason, Nick (11 April 2013). "Spinning Around". mX. Melbourne: News Corp Australia. p. 17.
  12. "Top 20 New Zealand Singles Chart". Recorded Music NZ. 2013-03-25. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
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  14. "Top 20 New Zealand Singles Chart". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  15. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2018 Singles". Australian Recording Industry Association. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  16. "Lorde – Chart history: Rock Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  17. "Lorde Album & Song Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  18. "Lorde – Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  19. "Lorde features on Typhoon Haiyan charity album". 3News. 2013-11-26. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06.
  20. "Rock Songs: 2013 Year-End". Billboard.com. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
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