Ride | 3BOPS

1. Doja Cat, “Ride”

💿 Planet Her (Deluxe) • 🏷 Kemosabe / RCA• 📅 2021

“And baby, you wind me up, took me for a ride / And baby, you drive me up the wall down with lies.” 🎙 Doja Cat is notorious for innuendo, as well as being plumb freaky.  However, in the case of 🎵 “Ride,” which appears on the deluxe version of 💿 Planet Her, she is honest about issues within the relationship, not merely being naughty and sexual.

Doja Cat wants more from him on this patois-driven pop joint.  She feels like she cares more for him and gives more in the relationship.  “I wish you saw what I saw in you,” she sings on the first verse, later adding, “How the fuck I wasn’t on to you?” Basically, he’s taken her for a ride that’s totally toyed with her on this slickly produced bonus track.

2. Aaron Frazer, “Ride with Me”

💿 Introducing… • 🏷 Dead Oceans / Easy Eye Sound • 📅 2021

“Tell all the children / There’s a new day dawning / If you aare willing / You can hear that train a crawlin’.” SAY THAT, SAY THAT!!! 🎙 Aaron Frazer of 🎙 Durand Jones & The Indications, stepped out on his own  in 2021 releasing his debut album, 💿 Introducing…. Throughout the retro-soul LP, Frazer makes the best of a soulful backdrop and his ability to croon like an absolute boss.  With Introducing being the mark of consistency, 🎵 “Ride with Me” continues the groove-heavy, driving nature of Introducing… in all its glory.

While the potency of groove can’t be overstated, there’s still a laid-back vibe, just how Aaron likes it.  Most of all, he compels with his sweet, sweet, easygoing pipes.  “Ride with me / Come on and ride with me,” he sings on the simple, memorable chorus, continuing, “I will set you free / All you gotta do is ride with me.” Ride with him, people! Frazer wrote this four-minute gem with 🎼✍ Bobby Wood and 🎼 ✍ 🎛 Dan Auerbach who also produces.

3. Ciara, “Ride”

Ft. Ludacris

💿 Basic Instinct • 🏷 LaFace • 📅 2010

“He love the way I ride it, He love the way I ride the beat / Like a freak, freak, freak.” Woo! It’s amazing how the word ride can be transformed into something naughty.  That’s exactly what 🏆 Grammy-winning R&B/pop artist Ciara does on 🎵 “Ride” from her 2010 album, 💿 Basic Instinct.  Solidifying the naughtiness, raunchiness, and risqué sentiment, C enlists 🎙 Ludacris for the assist (“She ride it like a roller coaster / As soon as I get her to the top, she screams”), while 🎼✍ 🎛 Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, 🎼✍ 🎛 Terius “The-Dream” Nash, and 🎼✍ 🎛 Kuk Harrell serve as writers/producers.

Ciara is NOT talking about riding in a car. If you’re that naïve, well, JESUS! C is ‘hot and bothered’ throughout the course of “Ride” and likewise, makes the boys get ‘hot and bothered’ too. I mean, when she says, “To him, I’m a gymnast,” we know the gymnastics are going down in the bedroom, right? Well, could be other places, but I digress.  This slower, sexy R&B cut runs over four-and-a-half minutes and every titillating second is worth it!