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Love (LØVË) (2018)

Where the lyrics of Love (LØVË) take you, and where it was really made.

Carter spent ten years learning to make an album from scratch, and this record arrived nearly fifteen years after his last studio album.

Key places

Home studio in Malibu (2018)

Recording site Bob Dylan's garage studio (Malibu) — Most of the album was developed at a home studio in Malibu. The point marks the city only, not the exact building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Love (stylized as LØVË): fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Aaron Carter
• Released 16 February 2018 by Sony Music, and the last album released in his lifetime
• First studio album in over fifteen years, since 2002's Another Earthquake
• Preceded by an EP of the same name, released in 2017
• Electropop, dance-pop and contemporary EDM sound, a clear change from the teen pop of his early work

Background

• Carter returned to music after more than thirteen years without a new studio album
• He said he spent ten years learning how to make an album from scratch while away from the music business
• Financial difficulties and mental health problems in the years before the album
• "Fool's Gold" was the first single, written and produced by Carter himself and teased in November 2015
• Billboard premiered a preview of "Fool's Gold" on 24 November 2015
• Second single "Sooner or Later" in 2017; third and last single "Don't Say Goodbye" in December 2017
• Carter released a remixed version of "I Want Candy" on 14 February 2018 to promote the album

Recording

• Developed mostly independently at a home studio in Malibu
• Carter also cited collaborations with songwriter Melanie Fontana
• Carter named technical influences from mentors Deadmau5 and Jim Johnson

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Aaron Charles Carter (1987–2022) was an American singer and rapper.
• He began performing at age seven after his brother Nick formed the Backstreet Boys' group.
• He was the lead singer of Dead End at age seven before leaving after two years to pursue pop music.

Career

• He made his first solo appearance at age nine, opening for the Backstreet Boys in Berlin in March 1997.
• His self-titled debut album (1997) sold one million copies worldwide.
• His second album, Aaron's Party (Come Get It) (2000), sold over three million copies in the United States.
• Oh Aaron (2001) went platinum; he also acted in Lizzie McGuire and played JoJo in the Broadway musical Seussical.
• He joined Dancing with the Stars in 2009 and starred in the off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks in 2011.
• His final album, Blacklisted, was released two days after his death in 2022.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic gave the album three and a half stars out of five, praising Carter's handling of 2017–2018 pop trends
• The same review said his lyrics moved from teen party songs to reflective heartbreak songs
• Chuck Campbell of the Knoxville News Sentinel gave the album two out of five stars
• The Knoxville review called the record a shallow pop/EDM set about relationships and said it fell flat even within its genre
• The same review picked the songs "Sooner or Later" and "Dearly Departed" as the album's best moments

Records

• The single "Sooner or Later" became certified gold in Italy in 2017
• In the US the single generated more than 75 million streams in under eight months
• The single's US streams passed 85 million by July 2019

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Carter released a newly recorded and remixed "I Want Candy" for Valentine's Day 2018, a 2000 top ten hit recut for the album's release.
• "Sooner or Later" was performed live at concerts before the EP came out, and its video was directed and edited by Bing & Liam Bruce.
• Sanook.com said the song had Caribbean beats and dubstep touches, and its vocal style recalled Justin Bieber.
• Other outlets compared the song to Bieber's 2015 single "What Do You Mean?".
• Carter said he avoided listening to popular music while developing the project so that he would not be directly influenced by other artists.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

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