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How to prove a song is good, with Kelly Rowland

  • May 12, 2009
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x20RZqaY-QU

As far as we're concerned the Kelly Rowland & David Guetta track 'When Love Takes Over' is one of the songs of the summer but appar­ently the best way to really prove how good it is and to 'bring out the song' and 'prove it's proper' is to take away all that cheap and tacky elec­trical music and instead perform it with an acoustic guitar. SEE ABOVE. Thanks for that, 'the Radio One Live Lounge'.

In actual fact, the song is supposed to be exper­i­enced like this. (Be warned, when it 'goes off' between 0'20 and 0'30 point it's up there with the legendary MGMT/Soulwax clip.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McMKjzy8J1Y

Thanks to the fact that we are now Living In The Future, that precise moment, glitter shower and everything, was captured from a variety of different angles. Literally incredible.

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