Bell Biv DeVoe "Do Me!"

Album: Poison (MCA; 1990)
Songwriters: Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Carl Bourelly and Ronnie DeVoe
R&B Peak Position: #4

"Take a look at me/ Tell me do you like what you see..."

In between the Poison album's two #1's (it's crazy beloved title track and comparably forgettable third single "BBD (I Thought It Was Me)"), the introductory Bell Biv DeVoe project produced the group's second most cherished single with "Do Me!", a New Jack staple that re-enforced the mass appeal of young male horniness.

Like "Poison", "Do Me!" mined a stunning common ground of R&B, hip hop, funk and pop, it's Roger Rabbit-friendly, grunt-heavy groove equally complimenting to both Ricky Bell's randy soul-man romancing and Michael Bivins and Ronnie Devoe's saucy rap dialogue. While Rick moans with delight over the X-rated adventures about to take place between him and some random girl ("Would you mind if I looked at you for a minute/ Before I make sweet love to you?"), his rhyming bandmates interject with their own backstage groupie adventures.

It's not much of a song really, at least as much as it's just one long string of sex-on-the-brain hooks dictating how "doin' it" can best be had at any point of the day ("You can do me in the mornin'/ You can do me in the night..."). It wasn't like the people cared that they weren't being offered much meat here, though; all they needed was a workable new-school R&B beat and another reason to giddily sing about sex, two things that "Do Me!" sufficiently supplied.

Best Moment: "Smack it up, flip it, rub it down!/ OH NOOOOOO!!" (2:38)

Bell Biv DeVoe - Do Me
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