Kiss You

### Writer(s)

Shellback, Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk, Savan Kotecha, Kristian Lundin, Kristoffer Fogelmark, Albin Nedler

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**Kiss You** is a song recorded by English-Irish boy band One Direction for their second studio album, Take Me Home. It was released as the record's second single in Germany and the third overall single on 7 January 2013. The song was composed by Kristoffer Fogelmark, Kristian Lundin, Albin Nedler, Savan Kotecha, Shellback and its producers, Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub.

## Background

"Kiss You" was written by Kristoffer Fogelmark, Kristian Lundin, Albin Nedler, Savan Kotecha, Shellback, and its producers, Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub. Falk, Kotecha, and Yacoub had collaboratively composed One Direction's previous hit singles, "What Makes You Beautiful", "One Thing", and "Live While We're Young". In April 2012, The Independent reported that Simon Cowell, the group's manager, had challenged prominent songwriters to compete for space on One Direction's second album. Falk said, "It's important to get their personalities on the music." In addition, the article reported that Syco Records was working on candidates that included Max Martin and Lundin.

## Reception

"Kiss You" was well received by contemporary music critics, who centred on its quality of production. Both Rolling Stone's Jon Dolan, who praised its effectiveness, and Chris Payne of Billboard, who appreciated the melody, described "Kiss You" as one of the album's highlights. Alexis Petridis for The Guardian commended the track's chorus as "hard to dislodge from your brain". Robert Copsey of Digital Spy noted the song's possibility to become an international hit, applauding it sonically. A reviewer for MTV News described the track's lyricism as "butterflies-inducing", and Sam Lansky of Idolator wrote that "Kiss You" is noticeably a stand-out track on its parent album. Melinda Newman, writing for HitFix, regarded the song as "a bouncy, electronic infectious ditty," while Chris Younie, a critic from 4Music, deemed it an "amazing pop song", lauding the group's falsetto and its "head-banging anthemic" chorus.

## Music Video

One Direction - Kiss You (Alt. Version)One Direction - Kiss You (Behind The Scenes)One Direction - Kiss You (Lyric Video)
### Countdown

One Direction - Kiss You - 5 days to goOne Direction - Kiss You - 4 days to goOne Direction - Kiss You - 3 days to goOne Direction - Kiss You - 2 days to goOne Direction - Kiss You - 1 day to go
## Lyrics

**[Zayn]**

Oh, I just wanna take you anywhere that you'd like

We could go out any day, any night

Baby I'll take you there, take you there

Baby I'll take you there, yeah

**[Harry]**

Oh, tell me, tell me, tell me how to turn your love on

You can get, get anything that you want

Baby just shout it out, shout it out

Baby just shout it out, yeah

**[Liam]**

And if you, you want me to

Let's make a move

**[Harry]**

Yeah, so tell me girl if every time we

**[All]**

To-o-uch

You get this kind of, ru-u-ush

Baby say yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

If you don't wanna, take it slow

And you just wanna, take me home

Baby say yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah

**[Harry]**

And let me kiss you

**[Zayn]**

Oh baby, baby don't you know you got what I need

Looking so good from your head to your feet

Come on come over here, over here

Come on come over here, yeah

**[Niall]**

Oh, I just wanna show you off to all of my friends

Making them drool down their chinny-chin-chins

Baby be mine tonight, mine tonight

Baby be mine tonight, yeah

**[Liam]**

And if you, you want me to

Let's make a move

**[Zayn]**

Yeah, so tell me girl if every time we

**[All]**

To-o-uch

You get this kind of, ru-u-ush

Baby say yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

If you don't wanna, take it slow

And you just wanna, take me home

Baby say yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah

**[Zayn]**

And let me kiss you (x5)

**[All]**

Na na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na

**[Louis]**

Yeah, so tell me girl if every time we

**[All]**

To-o-uch

You get this kind of, ru-u-ush

Baby say yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

If you don't wanna, take it slow

And you just wanna, take me home

Baby say yeah, yeah, yeah

Every time we to-o-uch

You get this kind of, ru-u-ush

Baby say yeah, yeah

If you don't wanna, take it slow

And you just wanna, take me home

Baby say yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah

**[Harry]**

And let me kiss you

## References

1. ↑ wikipedia.org - Background & Reception