Love Generation (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Love Generation


Artist = Bob Sinclar featuring Gary Pine
from Album = Western Dream
Released = October 13, 2005
Format = CD single, Maxi-single
Recorded = 2005
Genre = House
Length =
Label = Defected Records
Writer = Duane Harden, Christophe le Friant, Gary Pine, JG Schreiner, Alain Wisniak
Producer = Bob Sinclar
Chronology = Bob Sinclar singles
Last single = "Steel Storm" (2004)
This single = "Love Generation" (2005)
Next single = "World, Hold On (Children of the Sky)" (2006)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Gary Pine singles
Type = singles
Last single = -
This single = "Love Generation" (2005)
Next single =

"Love Generation" is a single by Bob Sinclar with vocals by Gary Pine, a member of Jamaican band The Wailers (formed by Bob Marley). The single was released in 2005 through the Defected label.

This song is the first track to be released from Sinclar's fourth full album, "Western Dream". It was a massive hit all over Europe and in Australia, and had one of the longest ever runs in the German Top 10. It was less popular in the United Kingdom, but still reached number 12 there.

This song now also has a version in Hungarian.

Track listings

#"Love Generation" (Radio Edit)
#"Love Generation" (Club Mix)
#"Love Generation" (Full Intention Mix)
#"Love Generation" (Full Intention Dub)
#"Love Generation" (Ron Carroll Black Church Feeling)
#"Love Generation" (Kenny Dope Gutta Remix)
*(Australia/NZ release)
#"Love Generation" (Radio Edit)
#"Love Generation" (Extended Club Version)

Music video

The music video is inspired by the music video for "Sweet Lullaby" by Deep Forest. Both videos feature children riding their bicycle across different locations, greeting the local people and sampling the local cultures and atmosphere.

The music video, which appears to have been shot at various locations in the United States, starts with a young boy (played by David Beaudoin, who stars in numerous Bob Sinclar videos) waking up one seemingly ordinary morning. He gets himself ready and goes out on his bike to school. He arrives outside the entrance and pauses, apparently in thought. Then he rides the bike on, past the school, and partakes on a trip to many different and exotic locations all over the USA including New York City and San Francisco. He waves to people he passes, rests occasionally for refreshments and to admire his surroundings, before riding on. The man watering his lawn is Bob Sinclar.

Eventually he ends up back at his home at the time he usually gets back from school. He embraces and chats animatedly to his mother, and she brings him to bed later. He looks thoughtfully at the globe at his bedside table, before rolling over to sleep. Overall the video has a very upbeat story, an adventure in the wild outdoors, and how a boy spreads love all over his nation.

Because the song was used throughout the 2006 FIFA World Cup in the music video appears the animated mascot Goleo VI and Pille.

Trivia

*The song was used throughout the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, as it was played after every goal was scored in the competition.
*The song is frequently and still used in Hhgregg advertisements
*The song is used by Sky Sports' "Football First" programme.
*The song is very popular during Spring Break in Mexico, with clubs in Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas, Cancun, and Puerto Vallarta playing it every night.
*The ongoing TBS comedy series "Love Bites" uses it as its theme song.
* DJ Josh, resident DJ at one of Sydney, Australia's leading hotspots "Side Bar", is largely credited with being responsible for the huge success of the song Down Under. He described the tune as "One I can play four or five times a night with just 2 or 3 complaints" and "a song that not only defines a genre but also a generation". He once played the tune 9 times in one evening, including 4 times consecutively, which he claims to be a world record. "There was some dissent but overall the crowd reception was bordering on favourable" he said.