18 June 2009
In France everything is political. The ’00s wave of French superstar DJs, with their rive droite nightclub bling lifestyle, were generally suspected to be on the conservative centre-right, at least by association. Sure enough, David Guetta played fundraising gigs for Nicolas Sarkozy’s victorious 2007 presidential campaign – in Irish terms, imagine him whooping it up at a Young Fine Gael convention. That awkward 2020 rooftop MLK mix didn’t come out of nowhere!
The Guetta bling of ‘When Love Takes Over’ extends to flaunting the services of a big-name vocalist in Kelly Rowland. Sure enough, she makes the chorus soar and is certainly this single’s money-maker. Otherwise, Guetta’s brand of bland big-beat EDM and pretensions to being inspirational make him the Coldplay of dance music. He may lean politically right, but he’ll always be musically gauche.
