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I Don't Wanna Live Forever is a Contemporary R&B and Electropop act. They run in the same orbit as Something Just Like This, Despacito, Scared to Be Lonely, Shape of You and This Is What You Came For, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ellie Goulding, Bon Iver and The Weeknd, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around I Don't Wanna Live Forever and forward to Ellie Goulding. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"I Don't Wanna Live Forever" is a song by the English singer Zayn and the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from the 2017 soundtrack Fifty Shades Darker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. It was written by Swift, Sam Dew, and its producer Jack Antonoff. An R&B, dance-pop, and electropop ballad about romantic yearning between two ex-lovers, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" features finger snap beats and falsetto vocals from Swift and Zayn. Universal Music Group released it as a single on December 9, 2016, and its music video was released on January 27, 2017.
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I Don't Wanna Live Forever shares an orbit with Something Just Like This, Despacito, Scared to Be Lonely and Shape of You, went on to shape Ellie Goulding, Bon Iver and The Weeknd. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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