Love Galore

The song was recorded in November 2016, during the early stages of developing Ctrl.

While talking about Travis Scott in an interview with Genius, SZA said;

"I’m definitely a huge fan of Travis. I think he merges that super-fine line between melody and syncopation and pocket. And I love his pockets, and I love his note choice. He’s just gnarly. He’s perfect."^[1]

The song blends alternative R&B and hip-hop and focuses on themes of love, desire, and the complexities of relationships.

It peaked at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning multiple certifications, including nine-times Platinum status by the RIAA.

SZA premiered "Love Galore" during a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in January 2017.^[2] The studio version of the song was uploaded on SZA's SoundCloud account on April 27,^[3] and the next day "Love Galore" was released for digital download on iTunes as a single.^[4] It is the second single from SZA's album, Ctrl, which was released on June 9.^[5]

On the five-year anniversary of Ctrl, SZA released in celebration of the milestone the album's deluxe edition. It contains seven bonus tracks, one of which being a version of "Love Galore" without Scott's verse subtitled "Alt version".^[6][7]

To further promote the single following increased airplay on rhythmic and urban radio, SZA performed the song at The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on July 20, 2017.^[1] She also performed the song at the 2017 BET Awards and on Saturday Night Live.

Gerrick Kennedy at the Los Angeles Times called the song SZA's "breakout single".^[8] Rolling Stone highlighted the song for its "vulnerability beneath the bravado" in their 2023 edition of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".^[9]

The music video for the song, directed by Nabil, premiered on April 27, 2017.^[10] It was uploaded to SZA's Vevo channel on April 28, 2017.^[10]

In it, SZA & Scott appear to prepare for a bondage session in an upstairs bedroom of a house, with the former tying the latter's hands to the bedposts. SZA gets up to look out the window, seeing an old woman sitting in a car across the street. The woman leaves the car and approaches the house as SZA returns to the bed, where she violently slaps Scott. As he struggles to free himself, she goes downstairs and lets the woman in, exiting afterwards. The woman climbs the stairs and enters the bedroom carrying a pickaxe, which she kills Scott with. Afterwards, she sits in a chair in the corner and laughs. Interspersed are scenes of SZA & Scott singing both together and separately in a gray room full of monarch butterflies.

1. “Love Galore” (featuring Travis Scott) - 4:35
2. “Love Galore” (Alt Version) - 4:33

Adapted from the liner notes of Ctrl^[11]

Recording and management

• Recorded at the Lake House (Michigan)
• Travis Scott's vocals recorded at Blake Harden's home studio
• Mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Los Angeles)

Personnel

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