Jacob Collier, Cinnamon Crush | Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥

In the 38^th edition of Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥 (2024), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind “Cinnamon Crush” by Jacob Collier. 

Ah, bring on Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥! Wait – it is not usually hot at midnight! Well, it is steaming hot 🥵 at midnight when it comes to this naughty, innuendo, and sex-laden column featuring songs intended for nighttime. Yeah, we are talking about that after-dark type $hi†, ya dig? These risqué, unapologetic records often raise eyebrows and temperature alike. In the 38^th edition of Midnight Heat (2024), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind, “Cinnamon Crush” by Jacob Collier. 

“I just want your body, babe / By my side, candlelight inside.” Ooh-la-la, that’s sexy! “Cinnamon Crush” is the fifth track on Djesse Vol. 4, the 2024 LP by the Grammy-winning musical genius, Jacob Collier. Collier is talented to the nth degree, something perceptible on this smooth R&B cut. Honestly, it shows on any Jacob Collier track. Taking first blood vocally, Collier is flirty and playful embracing those romantic vibes.  “And I can’t get you off my mind now / I must’ve tried a hundred thousand times now,” he adds in the first verse, before dropping a sugary, cinnamon-filled chorus: “Oh / You give me a rush now, sugar / Say, oh / You’re my cinnamon crush now, sugar.”

Assisting Jacob Collier in his romantic endeavors is the talented Lindsey Lomis. Her voice is beautiful, capturing desires coolly and potently.  Like Collier, Lindsey asserts, “I just want you next to me, by my side / Won’t you hold me close? No slippin’ away.”  She performs the chorus the second time, with a few vocals from Jacob. The jazzy bridge section features an adventurous harmonic progression that separates it from the rest of the song. The sound is different, but thematically, the focus remains love, love, love. Post-bridge, there’s an instrumental section that continues to show Collier’s brilliant musical mind, as well as the outro where there’s “Somethin’ ‘bout you laced with cinnamon / Sweet shop, won’t you let me in again?” Jacob Collier shines on  “Cinnamon Crush” which he penned with Lomis and produced himself.

Jacob Collier // Djesse Vol. 4 // Hajanga / Interscope / Decca // 2024

Jacob Collier, Cinnamon Crush: Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥 No. 38 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Decca, Hajanga, Interscope; Projeto Ser Quem Sou from Pexels; Aristal Branson, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, HANSUAN FABREGAS from Pixabay]