Oh well, that's what the world needed: a song using Marvin Gaye references to talk about sex. It's a catchy enough song, for what it is, "Marvin Gaye" by the uninspiringly named Charlie Puth featuring Meaghan Trainor. The lyrics start off with what seems to pass for grammar these days, "Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on". OK, musical reference and the right artist. Good.
Then: "You got the healing that I want/Just like they say it in the song." Well, Puth, what you missed was that "Sexual Healing" is neither romantic nor sexy. It's about the singer trying to recover from his sexual dysfunction (in Marvin's case, especially his porn addiction; hence the line about it not being good to masturbate). But the misunderstanding is common, reinforced by that awful video.
But a little later: "You got to give it up to me/I'm screaming mercy, mercy please/Just like they say it in the song..." Leaving aside the tortured reference to the hit which Pharrell Williams wrote for Marvin, "MERCY MERCY ME" IS NOT A SEX SONG! Really, didn't any of the four songwriters listen to the damn thing? Idiots.
Anyway, I suppose we've already done songs with famous names in the title, haven't we?
Then: "You got the healing that I want/Just like they say it in the song." Well, Puth, what you missed was that "Sexual Healing" is neither romantic nor sexy. It's about the singer trying to recover from his sexual dysfunction (in Marvin's case, especially his porn addiction; hence the line about it not being good to masturbate). But the misunderstanding is common, reinforced by that awful video.
But a little later: "You got to give it up to me/I'm screaming mercy, mercy please/Just like they say it in the song..." Leaving aside the tortured reference to the hit which Pharrell Williams wrote for Marvin, "MERCY MERCY ME" IS NOT A SEX SONG! Really, didn't any of the four songwriters listen to the damn thing? Idiots.
Anyway, I suppose we've already done songs with famous names in the title, haven't we?
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