Love Again

"Love Again" is a song by Australian rapper and singer the Kid Laroi. It was released on 27 January 2023 through Columbia Records as the lead single from his upcoming debut studio album, The First Time (2023). The song was written by Laroi alongside Billy Walsh and producers Cirkut and Omer Fedi. At the 2023 ARIA Music Awards, the song was nominated for Song of the Year and earned Laroi a nomination for Best Solo Artist. Background and promotion "Love Again" was one of Laroi's unreleased songs that had been circulating on social media the year before. He first unveiled and performed the song at the 2022 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball. The release date was revealed at the end of the music video for the promotional single, "I Can't Go Back to the Way It Was (Intro)". The song was featured in Laroi's 'Wild Dreams' Fortnite experience as part of his partnership with Epic Games. Composition and lyrics On "Love Again", Laroi mourns what once was a past love, and questions whether or not it will ever return, singing over a soft, acoustic guitar and fuzzed out instrumentation. He sings on the chorus, "Can we find love again?/ Is this time the end?/ Tell me." Billboard Jason Lipshutz wrote that the song "recalls the raw acoustic nerve" of Laroi's breakout hit, "Without You", and "offers clipped, unflinching rhetorical questions while trying to find resolution in a relationship".