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Carl Carlton, “She’s A Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)”: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 31 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; UMG Recordings, Inc.; John Alan Sperry, PIRO via Pixabay]In the 31st edition of Throwback Vibez (2023), we recollect and reflect on “She’s A Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)” by Carl Carlton.

The vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace this column are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome. In the 31st edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2023), we recollect and reflect on 🎵 She’s A Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)”, performed by 🎙 Carl Carlton

Carl Carlton, Carl Carlton [📷: UMG Recordings, Inc.]“She’s a bad mama jama / Just as fine as she can be.” Woo! Basically, what 🎙 Carl Carlton saying is, this girl is FINE! She a 10! Sista got it going on! Honestly, the chorus of his no. 22 Billboard Hot 100 hit, 🎵 “She’s A Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)”, says it all. “She’s A Bad Mama Jama” graces Carlton’s 💿 self-titled, 1981 album, where he’s easy on the eyes on the cover art 😍.  Anyways, the record is one big load of 1980s female objectification, period.

classic“Her body measurements are perfect in every dimension / She’s got a figure,” Carlton asserts in the first verse. Da-yum! He adds, “I get so excited viewing her anatomy.” Hmm, I wonder just how excited Carl gets 🍆… It is a safe bet on this funky joint that the rocket 🚀 is ready for takeoff: “She’s built, oh, she’s stacked / Got all the curves that men like / Look at her.” Yes indeed! Ultimately, this 🎼 ✍ 🎛 Leon Haywood-helmed joint describes male horniness in expert fashion.  It is a fun song that is far less explicit than the female objectifying songs of the 2020s but still has the same effect.  After all, on 🎵 “She’s A Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)”, Carl Carlton is thinking with his pants.


🎙 Carl Carlton💿 Carl Carlton 🏷 UMG Recordings, Inc. • 🗓 1981

Carl Carlton, “She’s A Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)”: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 31 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; UMG Recordings, Inc.; John Alan Sperry, PIRO via Pixabay]

 


the musical hype

the musical hype (Brent Faulkner) has earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music (music education, music theory/composition respectively). A multi-instrumentalist, he plays piano, trombone, and organ among numerous other instruments. He's a certified music educator, composer, and freelance music blogger. Faulkner cites music and writing as two of the most important parts of his life. Notably, he's blessed with a great ear, possessing perfect pitch.