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"Love Ballad" is a hit song for R&B/Funk band L.T.D.. Released from their album Love to the World, it spent two weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart in November 1976, and peaked at number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
"Love Ballad" is a song by Swedish recording artist and songwriter Tove Lo. It was written by the singer herself with Ludvig Söderberg and Jakob Jerlström and produced by the latter two under the production name The Struts. In 2012, after signing a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music and co-writing songs for artists such as Girls Aloud and Icona Pop, Lo decided to start a career as an independent singer in order to keep her "most personal songs" for herself. She eventually sent "Love Ballad" to Swedish radio stations on 15 October 2012 as her debut single. The track was latter included on Lo's debut extended play Truth Serum and her debut studio album Queen of the Clouds, both released in 2014.
Musically, "Love Ballad" is a pop song with drum instrumentation. In the lyrics, the singer talks about the "exaggerated" ways to show affection to a significant other. Critics described it as an "ode to falling dangerously in love with someone" as well as a "parody" of love songs. The song drew the attention of music blogs and received positive reviews from some critics. However, it failed to chart anywhere. A music video for "Love Ballad", directed by Motellet Film and Lo, was released on 5 October 2012. It shows the singer covered in black paint while doing acrobatics in the middle of a road and a football field. Lo performed the track several times, including on the Swedish campaign Musikhjälpen and at Notting Hill Arts Club in United Kingdom.
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Chad (i/tʃæd/; Arabic: تشاد Tshād; French: Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad (Arabic: جمهورية تشاد Jumhūrīyat Tshād; French: République du Tchad), is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest and Niger to the west. It is the fifth largest country in Africa in terms of area.
Chad has several regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in Chad and the second-largest in Africa. N'Djamena, the capital, is the largest city. Chad is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Arabic and French are the official languages. Islam and Christianity are the most widely practiced religions.
Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium BC, a series of states and empires rose and fell in Chad's Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region. France conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of French Equatorial Africa. In 1960, Chad obtained independence under the leadership of François Tombalbaye. Resentment towards his policies in the Muslim north culminated in the eruption of a long-lasting civil war in 1965. In 1979, the rebels conquered the capital and put an end to the south's hegemony. However, the rebel commanders fought amongst themselves until Hissène Habré defeated his rivals. He was overthrown in 1990 by his general Idriss Déby. Since 2003, the Darfur crisis in Sudan has spilt over the border and destabilised the nation, with hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees living in and around camps in eastern Chad.