About The Song
“I Want Your Sex” is a song by English singer and songwriter George Michael. Released as a single on 18 May 1987 (US) and 1 June 1987 (UK), it was the third hit from the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop II and the first single from Michael’s debut solo album Faith.
The single was certified platinum by the RIAA for shipments in excess a million copies in the United States. It was also the recipient for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song. The song’s radio airplay on the BBC was restricted to post-watershed hours due to concerns that it might promote promiscuity and could be counterproductive to contemporary campaigns about AIDS awareness
The song has three separate parts dubbed “Rhythms”. The first one, titled “Rhythm One: Lust”, is the version released as a single and banned by the BBC. It appears by itself on the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack, and mixed with the second version, titled “Rhythm Two: Brass in Love”, on Faith. The second Rhythm also appears by itself as the B-side of the single. A third part, “Rhythm Three: A Last Request”, appears as a B-side to the “Hard Day” 7″ and “Kissing a Fool” 12″ singles, and on the CD version of Faith as a bonus track. All three versions were mixed together into one 13-minute song, dubbed the “Monogamy Mix”, for the 12″ and CD single releases.
Part 1 of “I Want Your Sex” was recorded in August 1986 at Sarm West Studio 2, London, roughly 2 months after the Wham! split that June. It was written entirely in the studio, with Michael playing all the instruments: a LinnDrum, a Roland Juno-106 and a Yamaha DX7. Michael explained why he wrote the track this way in International Musician and Recording World magazine:
I didn’t want to write a song as such. I wanted to make a record. When it comes to making dance records I’m much more able to do them as I go along in the studio, because it’s much more about sound and rhythm. I deliberately wanted to make a record where if you stripped it down to what was left of the song, there wasn’t much of a song there.
Michael admitted that the track was “really easy to do”, but it was difficult in the sense that he intended it to be a dance record, so he “had to do something new with it every 16 bars” for the song’s arrangement to “hold up interest-wise”.
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Lyrics
C-c-c-c-come on
Oh yeah
I, I, I want you baby
Oh so much love
That you’ve never seen
Let’s make love
Put your trust in me
Don’t you listen to what they told you
Because I love you
Let me hold you
Oh
I’m not your brother
I’m not your father
Oh will you ever change your mind
I’m a gentle lover with a heart of gold
But baby you’ve been so unkind
Come on
I want your sex
Come on
I want your sex
That’s right, all night
Oh I want your sex
I want your, sex
Sexy baby’s
Sexy body
Keeps me guessing
With a promise
I know we can come together
But the question is
Will we ever ever?
Sexy baby’s
(Sexy baby’s)
Sexy body
(Sexy body)
Keeps me guessing
(Keeps me guessing)
With a promise
I know we can come together
But the question is
Will we ever ever?
Together
You and me
I want your love