Kelly Rowland, “Motivation” | After Dark

On the 16^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, “Motivation” by Kelly Rowland. 

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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.  Many of the records featured here raise eyebrows, as well as the temperature! These After Dark tunes focus on the universal three-letter word:  SEX. The dark records gracing After Dark are old and new alike, with all genres of music welcome.  On the 16^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, “Motivation” by Kelly Rowland.

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Theme & Lyrics  

“Oh lover, don’t you dare slow down / Go longer, you can last more rounds.” Damn, that’s hot, Kelly Rowland! The Grammy-winning R&B singer has a knack for sexy, steamy songs.  Before she’d drop “Kisses Down Low”, there’d be “Motivation”! “Motivation” marks one of the best songs of her career, gracing her 2011 album, Here I Am.  While she’s great at being freaky on her own, exemplifying that After Dark $#!t, she gets an assist from a rapper with a penchant for sex, Lil Wayne.  There’s just no way you don’t leave titillated with that dynamic duo.  Throw in the smooth, sensual production by Jim Jonsin and Rico Love, and the ‘motivation’ is indisputable!

The modus operandi is sex, period.  Kelly Rowland employs ample innuendo, but we can also figure out the specifics.  In the pre-chorus, she sings, “(And when we’re done) I don’t wanna feel my legs / (And when we’re done) I just wanna feel your hands all over me, baby.” Woo! Clearly, Rowland is encouraging her man to give her the utmost pleasure, considering herself to be his motivation to… ERUPT, of course! “I won’t let you get up out that game, no / So go lover, go ‘n make me rain.” Holy sugar honey iced tea!  As for Weezy baby, he has no shortage of sexed-up one-liners including “I like to taste that sugar, that sweet and low,” “I put her on my plate then I do the dishes,” and “‘Cause I let her ride, while I driver her crazy / Then I just keep going-going like I’m racing.”

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Final Thoughts  

Just to reiterate, the ‘motivation’ of “Motivation” is sex, and we wouldn’t have it any other way! Kelly Rowland kills it on this double-platinum, top-20 gem. Lil Wayne is true to self. The production = lit. What more could you ask for?

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Kelly Rowland • Here I Am • Universal Republic • 2011

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Kelly Rowland, “Motivation”: After Dark No. 16 (2022) [: Brent Faulkner, cottonbro, Darkmoon_Art, JJ Whitley, Ketut Subiyanto, KoolShooters, Luan Queiros, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, Tazz Vaughn, Universal Republic]

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