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What Is Love is a Dance-pop act. Their sound grew out of Joe Cocker, Seal, Robin S and Fine Young Cannibals. Those roots explain a lot about how What Is Love arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as U Can't Touch This, It's My Life, Bad Romance, Habits and Take Me to Church, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Diane Birch, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Kiesza and David Guetta, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around What Is Love, reaching back through Joe Cocker and forward to Diane Birch. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"What Is Love" is a song by Trinidadian singer Haddaway, released as his debut single from his debut album, The Album (1993). The song, both written and produced by Dee Dee Halligan and Karin Hartmann-Eisenblätter, was released by Coconut Records in January 1993. It was a hit across Europe, becoming a number-one single in at least 13 countries and reaching number two in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Outside Europe, the single peaked at number 11 in the United States, number 12 in Australia, number 17 in Canada, and number 48 in New Zealand.
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What Is Love connections
What Is Love grew out of Joe Cocker, Seal, Robin S and Fine Young Cannibals, shares an orbit with U Can't Touch This, It's My Life, Bad Romance and Habits, went on to shape Diane Birch, Eminem, Lil Wayne and Kiesza. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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