Donna Summer, “Love to Love You Baby” | After Dark

On the 36^th edition of After Dark, we explore the naughty, risqué & utterly sexual vibes behind, “Love to Love You Baby” by Donna Summer.   

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nnuendo? More like full-on sexual vibes! Welcome to After Dark , a column featuring songs that are best suited for nighttime, specifically, the bedroom.  Like Controversial Tunes , the records featured here raise eyebrows.  The difference between the songs of CONTROVERSY and DARK? These songs specifically focus on the universal topic of S-E-X. The dark records gracing After Dark are old and new alike, with all genres of music welcome.  On the 36^th edition of After Dark, we explore the naughty, risqué, scandalous & utterly sexual vibes behind, “Love to Love You Baby” by Donna Summer.

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Theme & Lyrics

“Ah, I love to love you baby.” One of the sexiest records of all time belongs to the late, great Donna Summer.  Keeping it real, “Love to Love You Baby” ( Love to Love You Baby, 1975) is the musical equivalent of an orgasm.  Affirming the musical orgasm are prevalent sensual moans by Summer, sure to turn anyone on.  Couple those moans with that killer, rhythmic hi-hat and “Love to Love You Baby” is the perfect soundtrack to a lit sexual encounter.

While “Love to Love You Baby” avoids explicitness lyrically, it remains risqué to date.  Again, it’s those moans where Summer perfectly stimulates superb ‘love making.’ Lyrically, there aren’t many words, but Summer makes them worthwhile, painting a lustful picture.  “When you’re laying so close to me / There’s no place I’d rather you be / Than with me,” she sings calmly and coolly on the first verse.  She turns up the heat on the second, asserting, “Do it to me again and again / You put me in such an awful spin.” Oh, the power of the D…  Again, Donna sings nothing offensive, but with those signature moans, she’d make anybody blush!

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Final Thoughts

Sometimes, After Dark doesn’t require profanity or explicitness.  Summer’s suggestiveness takes things next level, period. If I haven’t stated it enough, those moans, man.- they make you feel some type of way! Rest in peace, queen!

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Donna Summer • Love to Love You Baby • UMG Recordings, Inc. • 1975
Donna Summer, “Love to Love You Baby”: After Dark No. 36 [: Brent Faulkner, cottonbro from Pexels, KoolShooters from Pexels, Luan Queiros from Pexels, The Musical Hype, UMG Recordings, Inc.]

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