"Love Has Left the Room" was written and produced by A Camp, consisting of Niclas Frisk, Nina Persson, and Nathan Larson, for the band's second studio album Colonia (2009).

[5][6] In an interview for The Denver Post, Persson spoke of the decision to cover the two songs: the band felt "Us and Them" was "musically and rhythmically" related to their own work, while "Boys Keep Swinging" made "all the sense in the world to sing as a girl".

[7] According to Thomas Britt of PopMatters, the song begins in a "girl-group groove" and includes occasional synthesizer effects "resembling the sound of a spaceship landing in an old science fiction film".

[12] Håkan Pettersson of Nerikes Allehanda compared the song to the works of ABBA,[13] and Johanna Paulsson of Dagens Nyheter regarded it as "orchestrated 60s pop" and likened Persson's vocal performance to Sandie Shaw and Petula Clark.

[10] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine considered the lyrics cynical,[14] Andy Peterson of Contactmusic wrote that it portrays a "disconsolate virago" with lines such as "The party is over, but I can't get sober, obsession is tolling me deep down, down.

[16]Mark Horne of the Lancashire Telegraph wrote positively of the song, "Persson belts out the melancholy lyrics in rich, full tones, and the catchy upbeat tune should win you over by the second chorus.

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