The Isley Brothers, “Body Kiss” | After Dark 🕛 🌃

In the 37^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, “Body Kiss” by The Isley Brothers.

Innuendo? 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. In the 37^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, 🎵 “Body Kiss” by 🎙 The Isley Brothers.

Theme & Lyrics ✍

When 🎛 🎼✍ R. Kelly wrote and produced music for 🎙 The Isley Brothers in the aughts, it tended to be risqué.  🎙 Ronald Isley isn’t devoid of singing about sex.  Remember 🎵 “Between the Sheets” from the 1980s? There’s no disguising S-E-X in that instance! In 2003, Isley continued his sexual endeavors on the no. 1 debuting album, 💿 Body Kiss. 🎵 “Body Kiss”, the suggestive title track, arrives as the fourth track on the album. Kelly provides a shout out on the intro, while 🎙 Lil Kim amplifies the sexed-up joint in the third verse (“Let me dance like a stripper in the club”).  She does, however, eschew talk of the 🎵 “Magic Stick”.

Isley proves that “age ain’t nothin’ but a number” on “Body Kiss.” At the time “Body Kiss” was released, he was in his early 60s! Even so, that doesn’t hold Ron from indulging: “Now, we about to play this game / This freaky, freaky game / And I’m gonna let you win.”  That game, of course, is “Body Kiss,” which is laid out clearly in the chorus:

“Baby, body kiss

Meaning anywhere you want it

I will kiss

From your head down to your toes

Just make one wish

And I will kiss, from your…, and your …

From you …, to your …”

Of course, my favorite line appears in Ron’s second verse: “Turn around and see that rear, embrace it now / I’m about to lay you down and taste it now.” Damn, that’s freaky!

Final Thoughts 💭

If there were any doubt that the older folks can’t be sexy and straight up sexual, Ron Isley and The Isley Brothers shut that down.  “Body Kiss” is troubling considering its writer (R. Kelly), but, hard to deny the excellent result.

🎙 The Isley Brothers • 💿 Body Kiss • 🏷 SKG Music L.L.C. • 🗓 2003

The Isley Brothers, “Body Kiss”: After Dark 🕛 🌃 No. 37 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, cottonbro, Darkmoon_Art, JJ Whitley, Ketut Subiyanto, KoolShooters, Luan Queiros, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, SKG Music L.L.C., Tazz Vaughn]