Sexy Song of the Week: I just want to make love to you

Posted by Rachel Harvey on September 14, 2008 
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waters Sometimes love gives you the blues. Growing out of regional traditions of African-American slave music, the blues has greatly impacted musical sound in the last century. With a minor tone and heavy guitar, blues tunes just stir something deep down in your gut. Blues harmonies can make you mournful or fire you up and turn you on.

This week we focus on a classic: I just want to make love to you. The song was first performed in 1954 by Muddy Waters. (Here is a later video made of the song featuring the very sexy Kate Moss.) It has since been covered by numerous artists. My favorite version is by the untouchable Etta James. She recorded the song in 1961 for her very first album and still performs it today. You can read about her tumultuous career and private life in Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story.

Both James and Waters worked with the famous Chicago-based company Chess Records and both are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The history of Chess will be depicted in an upcoming film, Cadillac Records, starring Beyonce Knowles. I encourage you to check out these featured artists and other greats of the post-war blues era. Maybe you have some suggestions for your classmates. What are your impressions of this song and the sex appeal of the blues?

For further discussion, from last week’s comments on Britney’s video there appears to be some disparity in the class concerning exactly what is sexy. And some of you have offered suggestions of sexy songs, but you haven’t explained why you chose them. This is your time to speak up and clarify. What is really sexy to you and why? Is sex appeal something tantalizing left to the imagination or does it need to be more overt? Do you need explicit lyrics to get the idea? Or can a song like “I just want to make love to you” grab you?

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3 Responses to “Sexy Song of the Week: I just want to make love to you”

  1. Sana on September 15th, 2008 9:26 am

    Classic! You can’t forget BB King’s “Makin’ Love is Good For You”!

  2. Stephen on September 17th, 2008 1:39 pm

    Because of someone’s comment today, I’d going to suggest “Baby Got Back” a.k.a. “I like Big Butts” by Sir Mixalot.

  3. Matt on September 22nd, 2008 2:07 pm

    Foghat’s version of this song is DEFINITELY the best. Funny enough, there’s plenty of other “sexy songs.” try “i want you so hard” by the eagles of death metal off the album ‘death by sexy’ or “worked up so sexual” by the faint.

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