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Love Yourself is a Folk act. Their sound grew out of Ed Sheeran, benny blanco, John Mayer, Sam Smith and Cody Simpson. Those roots explain a lot about how Love Yourself arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Loose and Something Just Like This, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Elvis Presley, The Chainsmokers, Post Malone, 50 Cent and The Beatles, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 18 connections around Love Yourself, reaching back through Ed Sheeran and forward to Elvis Presley. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Love Yourself" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Justin Bieber for his fourth studio album Purpose (2015). The song was released as the album's third official single on November 9, 2015. It was written by Ed Sheeran and Benny Blanco, and produced by the latter. A pop song, "Love Yourself" features an electric guitar and a brief flurry of trumpets as its main instrumentation. During the song, Bieber uses a husky tone in the lower registers. Lyrically, the song is a kiss-off to a narcissistic ex-lover.
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Love Yourself grew out of Ed Sheeran, benny blanco, John Mayer and Sam Smith, shares an orbit with Loose and Something Just Like This, went on to shape Elvis Presley, The Chainsmokers, Post Malone and 50 Cent. 18 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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