One Love

One Love
Information
Birth name	Timothy Paul Sommers
Birth date	June 30, 19??
Birth place	Rockville, Maryland, USA
Nationality	American
Labels	Warner/Chappell Music
Occupations	Songwriter, producer, musician
Instruments	Drums • piano • synthesizer
Accounts
Twitter/X	@oneloveonline

Timothy Sommers, known professionally as One Love, is an American songwriter and producer. He has been working on music with Melanie Martinez since September 2013.

Background

Kinetics and One Love began writing music together after meeting in 2007 and forming a hip-hop group, with Kinetics as the rapper and One Love as the producer. In 2009, they released their debut studio album Fading Back to Normal, featuring the original Kinetics & One Love version of "Airplanes", with One Love production and Kinetics rap verses. After handing out a few hundred copies of the album around New York, a copy made its way into the offices of Atlantic Records in New York City. While still college students at Cornell University, Kinetics and One Love were invited to the label to speak with A&Rs from Atlantic and, in early 2010, signed a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. "Airplanes" was bought by Atlantic and became the second single off rapper B.o.B's debut album, The Adventures of Bobby Ray.

After the release of "Airplanes," One Love moved to New York City with Kinetics. The duo began writing and producing for various artists while managed by Nullah Sarker of Hourglass Entertainment.

Work with Melanie Martinez

Kinetics and One Love have worked with Melanie Martinez on the following songs:

Songs from Dollhouse (2014) and Cry Baby (2015):

• "Dollhouse"
• "Carousel"
• "Dead To Me"
• "Cry Baby"
• "Sippy Cup"
• "Alphabet Boy"
• "Mrs. Potato Head"

Songs from K-12 (2019):

• "Drama Club"

Songs from PORTALS (2023):

• "TUNNEL VISION" (alternative producer)
• "FAERIE SOIRÉE" (alternative producer)
• "MILK OF THE SIREN"

Songs currently unreleased:

• "99 Cent Store"
• "Barely Juice"
• "Bombs on Monday Morning"
• "Coloring Book"
• "Corpse"
• "Death"
• "Dragon’s Blood"
• "Drowning"
• "Emerald"
• "Eraser"
• "Fairy Dance"
• "Fingers Crossed"
• "Garden"
• "Glue Stick"
• "Gravitate"
• "Hawaii Space Guitar"
• "Inconsistent Flame"
• "Jinx"
• "Labyrinth (version 1)"
• "Labyrinth (version 2)"
• "Magnets"
• "Mother of Pearl"
• "Needle and Thread"
• "Papercut"
• "Puzzles"
• "Ring Pop"
• "Rocking Horse"
• "Schizo"
• "Strawberry Fields" (The Beatles cover)
• "Synchronicities"
• "Twins"
• "Void"
• "Walkie Talkie"
• "You Love I"
• "Zzzz"

Gallery

PORTALS studio session in Hawaii

Kinetics

Kinetics

Trivia

• The first song that Melanie wrote with Kinetics and One Love was "Dollhouse" in September 2013.
  • This was followed by the trio later writing (in chronological order): "Drowning", "Schizo", "Cry Baby" and "Carousel" in October of that year.
  • He additionally did the infomercial audio to the promotional video of "Dollhouse".
• In 2015, One Love stated that "Sippy Cup" was his favorite song that he had done with Melanie and Kinetics.
• In 2021, Him, Kinetics, and Melanie spent February-March of that year in isolation in Hawaii to record and produce songs for PORTALS.
• Melanie follows Kinetics & One Love on SoundCloud.

References

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