Album: Lose Control (Keia/ Elektra)
Songwriters: Roy Murray and Keith Sweat
Hit #1: March 13th, 1993 (8 Weeks)
When you've got Keith Sweat as your label CEO and main songwriting and production contributor, odds are you're not going to be releasing music geared towards kids or daytime listening. So you shouldn't have been surprised when the Atlanta vocal quintet Silk stormed the charts with this R&B how-to to pleasuring women.
It's funny how back then we thought that men singing "let me lick you up and down" and "I want to get freaky with you" was so nasty. Those lines are PG-rated compared to the sex talk urban music now stands behind (check out Pretty Ricky, a direct descendant of Silk and their like). Nevertheless, for the time, the spoken-word come-ons and lead singer Gary "Lil' G" Jenkins emotive moans to make all his ladies smile gave radio a newfound tinge of romanticism.
What women didn't flood their undergarments with these five men promising them 24 carat gold ("to warm the nights when you get cold") and sounding oh-so-enthused about taking sips from their "body drip"?
Keith Sweat had found a winning team in Silk, and the group refused to budge from their Lothario role, issuing out several late night-themed R&B hits over the years ("I Can Go Deep", "Hooked On You", "If You (Lovin' Me)", "Meeting In My Bedroom"), but none would grab the nether-regions the most (or help create the most babies) like their eight week #1 uber-smash "Freak Me".
Best Moment: That hilarious striped turtle neck thing Lil' G sports in the video. LOL, indeed!!
DL: "Freak Me" (YFH)
1 comments:
I was just listening to this song the other day and reflecting about how utterly cheesy the lyrics were.. whereas back in Middle School when it first came out, it was soooo nasty and risque and anyone caught singing it at school was reprimanded and given detention. They even banned it at the dance! LOL
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