Words
by Alesso (featuring Zara Larsson)

Album: single release only (2022)
Charted: 36
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Alesso teams up with fellow Swede Zara Larsson for an understated EDM-pop and house-pop track. Though both artists have known each other for a long time, "Words" is their first collaboration.
  • Larsson sings of falling in love too soon. She is afraid to tell her lover of her feelings in case she scares him off. The words "I love you" remain on the tip of her tongue.
  • Alesso and Zara Larsson wrote "Words" with Karen Poole (Kylie Minogue, Tiesto) and the British singer Becky Hill, who also supplied background vocals. Poole and Hill previously worked together on Hill's hit David Guetta collaboration, "Remember."
  • Alesso and Larsson recorded "Words" in Sweden between December 2021 and January 2022. Alesso manned the production desk and Hampus Lindvall produced Larsson's vocals.
  • With Greek mythology imagery, the Jason Lester-directed video is a clash of Alesso's world of rave and Larsson's world of fashion and beauty.
  • Released on April 22, 2022, "Words" became Alesso's first Top 10 hit in his home country of Sweden since "Heroes" peaked at #5 in 2014.

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