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Valentine’s Day has come and gone. For those of you who are in a relationship, hopefully, your love has been rejuvenated and there is a new bounce in your love step. For those who are not in a relationship, February 14th can lead to many different options; you can use it as an opportunity to go out and meet a new love. You can stay home and do some self-reflection. Or, you can view it as we do in my house…Tuesday.
The Internet, television, and radio programming use it as an opportunity to showcase love. Love songs dominate the airwaves, the internet inundates us with stories about love or lists about love and TV’s plot lines are littered with tales of love’s latest anecdotes.
When everyone expects love, sometimes you have to throw them a curve ball.
This week, we are eschewing the typical question and answer routine and giving you my list of 5 Songs that are hot, low-key, and may help you get you lucky, even though they are not about love
Enjoy and use responsibly.
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#1. Otis Redding – Pain in My Heart
No one quite did a broken heart like the King of Soul. Otis’ voice cuts through your soul like a nail gun to the heart. His pain is your pain, but his raspy emotional plea is also an aphrodisiac. Add to his painful begging, the wailing horn section, the choppy 60s piano refrain and when Otis pleas to “Love Me, Love Me, Love Me!” There’s no doubt that you and your special someone will do just that.
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#2. Prince – Purple House
Prince slays in this cover of the Jimi Hendrix classic Red House. A song about coming home to find your baby has changed the locks on the door and left you out in the cold takes on a different meaning with Prince behind the guitar. While Jimi’s version is an absolute monster and one of his greatest hits, what Prince brings to the table separating him from his predecessor is…well, Prince. You can feel the sex come through his guitar, the eroticism bleeds through his voice. In Jimi’s version, he ends it with “My baby don’t love me no more, but I know good and well her sister will.” When Hendrix says it, it comes off with a tinge of revenge. When Prince says it, he changes the final kicker to “I know good and well, somebody will,” and it comes off as supreme confidence. And as we all know, nothing is more attractive to the other sex than confidence.
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#3. Sia – Breathe Me
A song where the singer is in desperate need of help is transformed into a call for intimacy by Sia’s ability to lure you in with her seductive voice. A cello, piano and Sia’s voice expose all your vulnerabilities and then she throws in the bass and drums to lead you into a melodic tidal wave of raw power. You are completely at her mercy. A song about depression and a call for help will leave you calling for your lover, and that has everything to do with Sia’s ability to have you believe that “Breathe Me” is about taking in your lover at their most uninhibited state.
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#4. Citizen Cope ft. Santana – Sideways
Charles Darwin once suggested that animals started creating musical notes and rhythm in order to charm the opposite sex. If that is the case, Carlos Santana might be the supreme order of human evolution. His guitar riffs have been known to cause a few babies to be made. Combined with Clarence Greenwood, AKA Citizen Cope’s unsuspecting voice and a song about trying to rid yourself of lingering feelings of your ex will undoubtedly send you into the arms of damn near anyone. Santana and Cope meld their two styles into a sexual chemistry that just will not only charm the opposite sex but might knock the evolutionary order Sideways.
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#5. Kings of Leon – Closer
In what Rolling Stone called one of the 15 greatest songs about Vampires, Closer haunts you into submission. If there was a sound mimicking Star Wars’ “tractor beam” it would be Jared Followill’s bass line. That bass and Caleb Followill’s voice hypnotize while drawing you in much like the vampire’s “gaze.” A song about bleeding you dry shouldn’t leave you with the desire to procreate or practice the art of procreation, but damn if the moment I hear that rhythmic bass, my heart rate doesn’t jump a few beats per second. I’ve seen enough of the vampire genre to know they do two things great, drink blood and have sex. Listen to the song and you’re going to do one of those things and I pray it’s the latter.
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This week, we are eschewing the typical question and answer routine and giving you my list of 5 Songs that are hot, low-key, and may help you get you lucky, even though they are not about love
Get lucky? Wow
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