Only Love, L is the fifth studio album by German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut. It was released by Polydor Records on 5 April 2019.[1] A pop album that incorporates elements of dancehall, trap and R&B,[2] Meyer-Landrut reunited with previous collaborators Philip Böllhoff, Sipho Sililo, David Vogt and Hannes Büsche from production team Beatgees to work on the majority of material for Only Love, L, while additional production was provided by Beatzarre, Jr Blender, Djorkaeff, Jugglerz, and Pascal Reinhardt.
The album earned largely positive reviews from music critics who complimented on its international sound and its lyrical content. Upon release, it peaked at number two on the German Albums Chart, becoming Meyer-Landrut's fifth consecutive album to reach the top two. In Austria and Switzerland, Only Love, L marked her highest-charting album since My Cassette Player (2010). The first two singles from the album include "Thank You" and "Don't Lie to Me", while further singles, including "Better" with Nico Santos, were included on the album's More Love Edition reiussue, released on 6 December 2019.
The album's lead single "Thank You" was released on 16 November 2018.[3] The song's music video was released on 29 November 2018 and was directed by Mario Clement.[4] The song debuted and peaked at number 40 in Germany.[5] "Don't Lie to Me" was released as the album's second single on 15 March 2019.[6] The song's music video was released on the same day and was directed by Paul Ripke.[7] The song debuted at number 63 and peaked at number 30 in Germany.[8]
"Sex in the Morning" featuring Ramz was released on 29 March 2019 as the first promotional single from the album.[9] "Boundaries" was used in the German campaign for the movie Dark Phoenix. The official music video was released on 17 May 2019.[10] A music video for "Love" was released as an IGTV video on 28 June 2019.[11] On 3 July 2019 the video was published on YouTube.[12] "Better" with Nico Santos was released as a single on 16 August 2019.[13] It was later included on the album's More Love Edition.[14] "Skinny Bitch" was released as a single on 24 January 2020, along with a music video directed by Paul Hüttemann.[15][16]
Philipp Kause from Laut.de found that the songs on Only Love, L "do not necessarily sound like a national, German production. Lena Meyer-Landrut finds her (new) place in the R&B radius of AlunaGeorge or Iggy Azalea, and Afrobeats are also incorporated. Musically and lyrically, the songs are closely related to each other and at the same time explore a lot of range. [...] An international album is blaring from the speaker boxes here and you wouldn't think of Lena. Nevertheless, the whole thing seems authentic and the voice is close, warm and, above all, not auto-tuned."[17]Musikexpress editor Jördis Hagemeier rated the album four of six stars and called Only Love, L a "pretentiously polished piece of pop from the Berlin producer collective Beatgees, which negotiates all sorts of deep themes between R&B and dancehall, Auto-Tune and trap moments: self-acceptance, crossing boundaries, honesty, remorse, strength, and even social criticism in the abstract. Lena has something to say that is easy to understand – you just have to listen to her."[2]
Süddeutsche Zeitung critic Jens-Christian Rabe felt that Only Love, L was "undoubtedly [her] most musically ambitious record [...] It sounds like a very decent contemporary mainstream R&B record sounds like, a bit eclectic stumbled and blown away, but overall just as incredibly well-behaved as you would imagine a singer with big dreams from the pop province to be just imagine it that way."[18] Alina Hasky from Minutenmusik noted that with Only Love, L Meyer-Landrut "has taken a big step in her personal development. The songs are much more personal and show a lot of maturity and self-reflection. Both her voice and the production of the album hardly suggest that it is a German artist, but instead make the whole thing very global. Unfortunately, this also means that certain recognition features that Lena has always stood for in recent years are missing. This causes the authenticity to falter a little, but Lena cannot completely buy it. Only Love, L is very well rounded thematically and vocally – but the big moments are missing."[19]
^ ab"Only Love, L". iTunes. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^ abcHagemeier, Jördis (4 April 2019). "Lena – Only Love, L". Musikexpress (in German). Retrieved 27 October 2023.
^"Lena releases 'Thank You' and pre-order for fifth album 'Only Love, L'". ESCXTRA.com. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^Lena (29 November 2018), Lena - Thank You (Official Video), retrieved 14 April 2019
^"Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^"The Drop: Your Guide To New Music Friday Featuring The Bliss & Lena". Idolator. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^Lena (15 March 2019), Lena - Don't Lie To Me (Official Video), retrieved 14 April 2019
^"Don't Lie To Me - Offizielle deutsche Charts". Retrieved 12 October 2022.
^"New Music Friday - This week with Lena, Westlife, Erik Segerstedt & more!". ESCXTRA.com. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^Lena - Boundaries (Official Video), retrieved 6 December 2019
^"Lena on Instagram: "Offizielles Video by Henrik alm"". Instagram. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
^Lena - Love (Official Video), retrieved 6 December 2019
^Better - Single by Lena & Nico Santos (in German), retrieved 14 December 2019
^ ab"Only Love, L (More Love Edition)" von Lena (in German), retrieved 14 December 2019
^"Lena präsentiert euch das offizielle Video zur Single "Skinny Bitch" von ihrem Album "Only Love, L (More Love Edition)"". www.universal-music.de (in German). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
^Lena - Skinny Bitch (Official Video), retrieved 29 January 2020
^ abKause, Philipp. "Songs über Sex am Morgen und Selbstreflexion" (in German). Laut.de. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
^Rabe, Jens-Christian (5 April 2019). "Große Träume aus der Popprovinz". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 27 October 2023.
^Hasky, Alina (18 April 2019). "Rezension: Lena – Only Love, L". minutenmusik.de (in German). Retrieved 27 October 2023.
^"Only Love, L". Polydor (Universal Music). Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^"Only Love, L". Polydor (Universal Music). Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^"Austriancharts.at – Lena – Only Love, L" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
^"Offiziellecharts.de – Lena – Only Love, L" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^"Swisscharts.com – Lena – Only Love, L". Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
^"Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
^"Only Love, L (More Love Edition)". Amazon.com (in German). offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
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only, love, fifth, studio, album, german, singer, lena, meyer, landrut, released, polydor, records, april, 2019, album, that, incorporates, elements, dancehall, trap, meyer, landrut, reunited, with, previous, collaborators, philip, böllhoff, sipho, sililo, dav. Only Love L is the fifth studio album by German singer Lena Meyer Landrut It was released by Polydor Records on 5 April 2019 1 A pop album that incorporates elements of dancehall trap and R amp B 2 Meyer Landrut reunited with previous collaborators Philip Bollhoff Sipho Sililo David Vogt and Hannes Busche from production team Beatgees to work on the majority of material for Only Love L while additional production was provided by Beatzarre Jr Blender Djorkaeff Jugglerz and Pascal Reinhardt Only Love LStudio album by LenaReleased5 April 2019Length45 30LabelPolydorProducerBeatgeesBeatzarreJr BlenderDjorkaeffJugglerzPascal ReinhardtLena chronologyCrystal Sky 2015 Only Love L 2019 Singles from Only Love L Thank You Released 16 November 2018 Don t Lie to Me Released 15 March 2019 Better Released 16 August 2019 Skinny Bitch Released 24 January 2020The album earned largely positive reviews from music critics who complimented on its international sound and its lyrical content Upon release it peaked at number two on the German Albums Chart becoming Meyer Landrut s fifth consecutive album to reach the top two In Austria and Switzerland Only Love L marked her highest charting album since My Cassette Player 2010 The first two singles from the album include Thank You and Don t Lie to Me while further singles including Better with Nico Santos were included on the album s More Love Edition reiussue released on 6 December 2019 Contents 1 Promotion 2 Critical reception 3 Track listing 4 Charts 4 1 Weekly charts 4 2 Year end charts 5 Release history 6 References 7 External linksPromotion editThe album s lead single Thank You was released on 16 November 2018 3 The song s music video was released on 29 November 2018 and was directed by Mario Clement 4 The song debuted and peaked at number 40 in Germany 5 Don t Lie to Me was released as the album s second single on 15 March 2019 6 The song s music video was released on the same day and was directed by Paul Ripke 7 The song debuted at number 63 and peaked at number 30 in Germany 8 Sex in the Morning featuring Ramz was released on 29 March 2019 as the first promotional single from the album 9 Boundaries was used in the German campaign for the movie Dark Phoenix The official music video was released on 17 May 2019 10 A music video for Love was released as an IGTV video on 28 June 2019 11 On 3 July 2019 the video was published on YouTube 12 Better with Nico Santos was released as a single on 16 August 2019 13 It was later included on the album s More Love Edition 14 Skinny Bitch was released as a single on 24 January 2020 along with a music video directed by Paul Huttemann 15 16 Critical reception editProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingLaut de nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 17 Musikexpress nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 2 Philipp Kause from Laut de found that the songs on Only Love L do not necessarily sound like a national German production Lena Meyer Landrut finds her new place in the R amp B radius of AlunaGeorge or Iggy Azalea and Afrobeats are also incorporated Musically and lyrically the songs are closely related to each other and at the same time explore a lot of range An international album is blaring from the speaker boxes here and you wouldn t think of Lena Nevertheless the whole thing seems authentic and the voice is close warm and above all not auto tuned 17 Musikexpress editor Jordis Hagemeier rated the album four of six stars and called Only Love L a pretentiously polished piece of pop from the Berlin producer collective Beatgees which negotiates all sorts of deep themes between R amp B and dancehall Auto Tune and trap moments self acceptance crossing boundaries honesty remorse strength and even social criticism in the abstract Lena has something to say that is easy to understand you just have to listen to her 2 Suddeutsche Zeitung critic Jens Christian Rabe felt that Only Love L was undoubtedly her most musically ambitious record It sounds like a very decent contemporary mainstream R amp B record sounds like a bit eclectic stumbled and blown away but overall just as incredibly well behaved as you would imagine a singer with big dreams from the pop province to be just imagine it that way 18 Alina Hasky from Minutenmusik noted that with Only Love L Meyer Landrut has taken a big step in her personal development The songs are much more personal and show a lot of maturity and self reflection Both her voice and the production of the album hardly suggest that it is a German artist but instead make the whole thing very global Unfortunately this also means that certain recognition features that Lena has always stood for in recent years are missing This causes the authenticity to falter a little but Lena cannot completely buy it Only Love L is very well rounded thematically and vocally but the big moments are missing 19 Track listing editOnly Love L track listing digital edition 20 No TitleWriter s Producer s Length1 Dear L Joe WalterLena Meyer LandrutPascal ReinhardtSteven BashirBeatgees3 192 Thank You BeatgeesFraser T SmithJanee BennettJessica GlynneMeyer LandrutSimon TriebelBeatgees3 153 Private Thoughts Jeff ShumJimmy BurneyMeyer LandrutBeatgees4 204 Scared WalterMeyer LandrutReinhardtBeatgeesReinhardt3 155 Life Was a Beach WalterJonas ShandelMeyer LandrutMarcus BroschMolly IrvineReinhardtPhilip AlbingerBeatgees2 546 Sex in the Morning featuring Ramz Chima EdeDavid HofmannIman JordanJimmy HarryJoachim PiehlJonas LangMeyer LandrutLevin DennlerMartin WillumeitJugglerz3 087 Note to Myself Meyer LandrutPatrick SalmyBashirBeatgees3 068 Love BeatgeesWalterMeyer LandrutNico WellenbrinkBeatgees4 079 Don t Lie to Me EdeHofmannPiehlLangMeyer LandrutDennlerWillumeitMatt JamesPhilip MeckseperVania Khaleh PariJr BlenderBeatgees3 2610 Stuck Inside Meyer LandrutMax MostleyNorma Jean MartineBeatgees3 4611 Skinny Bitch Meyer LandrutMostleyMartineBeatgees2 5812 Boundaries Cameron StymeistCasey CookMeyer LandrutNicolas FarmakalidisBeatgees4 1513 OK BeatgeesJennifer KastelLarissa HerdenMeyer LandrutBeatgees3 41Total length 45 30 Physical edition bonus track 21 22 No TitleWriter s Producer s Length14 If I Wasn t Your Daughter Acoustic version Jamie HartmanKonstantin SchererMeyer LandrutWellenbrinkVincent SteinDjorkaeffBeatzarre3 22Total length 48 52 More Love edition 14 No TitleWriter s Producer s Length14 Better with Nico Santos WalterKate MorganMeyer LandrutWellenbrinkReinhardtReinhardt3 2015 It Takes Two BeatgeesCeline DorkaChris CronauerSchererMeyer LandrutMarc LennardNico SantosSteinBeatgees3 3316 Thank You Acoustic version BeatgeesSmithBennettGlynneMeyer LandrutTriebelBeatgees3 1017 Don t Lie to Me Acoustic version EdeHofmannPiehlLangMeyer LandrutDennlerWillumeitJamesMeckseperKhaleh PariJr BlenderBeatgees3 1818 Skinny Bitch Acoustic version Meyer LandrutMostleyMartineBeatgees3 2219 Better Acoustic version with Nico Santos WalterMorganMeyer LandrutWellenbrinkReinhardtReinhardt3 40Total length 65 53 Notes All track titles are stylised in all lowercase Charts editWeekly charts edit Weekly chart performance for Only Love L Chart 2019 PeakpositionAustrian Albums O3 Austria 23 4German Albums Offizielle Top 100 24 2Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 25 14 Year end charts edit Year end chart performance for Only Love L Chart 2019 PositionGerman Albums Offizielle Top 100 26 67Release history editOnly Love L release history Region Date Edition s Format s Label Ref Various 5 April 2019 Standard CDdigital downloadstreaming Polydor 1 6 December 2019 More Love 27 References edit a b Only Love L iTunes Retrieved 14 April 2019 a b c Hagemeier Jordis 4 April 2019 Lena Only Love L Musikexpress in German Retrieved 27 October 2023 Lena releases Thank You and pre order for fifth album Only Love L ESCXTRA com 29 November 2018 Retrieved 14 April 2019 Lena 29 November 2018 Lena Thank You Official Video retrieved 14 April 2019 Offizielle Deutsche Charts Offizielle Deutsche Charts www offiziellecharts de Retrieved 14 April 2019 The Drop Your Guide To New Music Friday Featuring The Bliss amp Lena Idolator 15 March 2019 Retrieved 14 April 2019 Lena 15 March 2019 Lena Don t Lie To Me Official Video retrieved 14 April 2019 Don t Lie To Me Offizielle deutsche Charts Retrieved 12 October 2022 New Music Friday This week with Lena Westlife Erik Segerstedt amp more ESCXTRA com 29 March 2019 Retrieved 14 April 2019 Lena Boundaries Official Video retrieved 6 December 2019 Lena on Instagram Offizielles Video by Henrik alm Instagram Retrieved 6 December 2019 Lena Love Official Video retrieved 6 December 2019 Better Single by Lena amp Nico Santos in German retrieved 14 December 2019 a b Only Love L More Love Edition von Lena in German retrieved 14 December 2019 Lena prasentiert euch das offizielle Video zur Single Skinny Bitch von ihrem Album Only Love L More Love Edition www universal music de in German Retrieved 29 January 2020 Lena Skinny Bitch Official Video retrieved 29 January 2020 a b Kause Philipp Songs uber Sex am Morgen und Selbstreflexion in German Laut de Retrieved 27 October 2023 Rabe Jens Christian 5 April 2019 Grosse Traume aus der Popprovinz Suddeutsche Zeitung in German Retrieved 27 October 2023 Hasky Alina 18 April 2019 Rezension Lena Only Love L minutenmusik de in German Retrieved 27 October 2023 Only Love L Retrieved 14 April 2019 Only Love L Polydor Universal Music Retrieved 14 April 2019 Only Love L Polydor Universal Music Retrieved 14 April 2019 Austriancharts at Lena Only Love L in German Hung Medien Retrieved 18 April 2019 Offiziellecharts de Lena Only Love L in German GfK Entertainment Charts Retrieved 14 April 2019 Swisscharts com Lena Only Love L Hung Medien Retrieved 17 April 2019 Top 100 Album Jahrescharts GfK Entertainment in German offiziellecharts de Retrieved 20 December 2019 Only Love L More Love Edition Amazon com in German offiziellecharts de Retrieved 27 October 2023 External links editOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Only Love 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