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"Lovefool" is a pop song written by Peter Svensson and Nina Persson for The Cardigans' third studio album, First Band on the Moon, released as a single on 14 September 1996, in the United Kingdom and internationally on 5 October 1996. It was released as the album's lead single in 1996 and became the Cardigans' first international hit single, topping the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart and making appearances on six other Billboard charts. In 1997, the song found international success, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart and finding moderate success on some other European charts. The single also topped the charts in New Zealand, and was certified Gold in Australia.
The song was featured in the film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet just two months after the release of the single, as well as in the 1999 film Cruel Intentions. It has also been covered by numerous musical acts since its release, including by indie pop band The Hush Sound, who have played the song at several of their shows. More recently the song was covered by pop punk band New Found Glory on their album From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II.
Nina Persson wrote the lyrics to the song at an airport while waiting for a plane. She said that, at the time, the song had "a slow bossa nova feel". She also added that "the biggest hits are the ones that are the easiest to write".
"Lovefool" is a pop rock and alternative rock song that is performed in several keys and modulates based on chorus and verse. The chorus is in the key of A major using a I-IV-ii-V chord progression. The verses use a vi-ii-V-I chord progression in C major. It is written in common time and moves at 112 beats per minute. The song's middle 8 is four bars long.
The song's American music video was directed by Geoff Moore in New York in September 1996. It features a man being lost on an island and putting a message in a bottle into the water. A woman implied to be his lover is shown on a dock reading a newspaper and at the end of the video receives and reads the message and smiles. The video also shows the band performing the song in what looks to be the interior of the bottle released by the man lost at sea, as well as Nina Persson looking out from the bottles neck and later through a periscope at the woman. Midway through the song, the band is also interviewed by several scuba equipment-wearing reporters who descend from a ladder into the room.
The song's worldwide—also known as its European and British—music video can loosely be called a love story, featuring a woman (Nina Persson) longing for a man she watches from a distance. The man walks into a building accompanied by several other men (the band members) and sits down before putting a cassette into a player and beginning to listen to it (the song playing is implied to be the song itself, which the woman is singing). Several women (including two skimpily-dressed middle-aged women) enter and attempt to entertain them, but they remain unimpressed, with the man who is the object of the woman's affections crying as he listens to the cassette and one of the women dances for him. Near the end of the video, the woman (Nina) walks into the building and says the line spoken towards the end of the song ("Say that you love me... go on and fool me") before embracing the man.
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"Lovefool" is a pop song written by Peter Svensson and Nina Persson for The Cardigans' third studio album, First Band on the Moon, released as a single on 14 September 1996, in the United Kingdom and internationally on 5 October 1996. It was released as the album's lead single in 1996 and became the Cardigans' first international hit single, topping the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart and making appearances on six other Billboard charts. In 1997, the song found international success, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart and finding moderate success on some other European charts. The single also topped the charts in New Zealand, and was certified Gold in Australia.
The song was featured in the film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet just two months after the release of the single, as well as in the 1999 film Cruel Intentions. It has also been covered by numerous musical acts since its release, including by indie pop band The Hush Sound, who have played the song at several of their shows. More recently the song was covered by pop punk band New Found Glory on their album From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II.
Nina Persson wrote the lyrics to the song at an airport while waiting for a plane. She said that, at the time, the song had "a slow bossa nova feel". She also added that "the biggest hits are the ones that are the easiest to write".
"Lovefool" is a pop rock and alternative rock song that is performed in several keys and modulates based on chorus and verse. The chorus is in the key of A major using a I-IV-ii-V chord progression. The verses use a vi-ii-V-I chord progression in C major. It is written in common time and moves at 112 beats per minute. The song's middle 8 is four bars long.
The song's American music video was directed by Geoff Moore in New York in September 1996. It features a man being lost on an island and putting a message in a bottle into the water. A woman implied to be his lover is shown on a dock reading a newspaper and at the end of the video receives and reads the message and smiles. The video also shows the band performing the song in what looks to be the interior of the bottle released by the man lost at sea, as well as Nina Persson looking out from the bottles neck and later through a periscope at the woman. Midway through the song, the band is also interviewed by several scuba equipment-wearing reporters who descend from a ladder into the room.
The song's worldwide—also known as its European and British—music video can loosely be called a love story, featuring a woman (Nina Persson) longing for a man she watches from a distance. The man walks into a building accompanied by several other men (the band members) and sits down before putting a cassette into a player and beginning to listen to it (the song playing is implied to be the song itself, which the woman is singing). Several women (including two skimpily-dressed middle-aged women) enter and attempt to entertain them, but they remain unimpressed, with the man who is the object of the woman's affections crying as he listens to the cassette and one of the women dances for him. Near the end of the video, the woman (Nina) walks into the building and says the line spoken towards the end of the song ("Say that you love me... go on and fool me") before embracing the man.
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