It's designed to sound like an answerphone message, hence the vocal treatment. I like how it's kind of sing-song and nursery rhyme like while delivering quite harsh words, then towards the end the spoken part gets serious as she goes in for the kill. It's fun, plenty of interesting stuff going on sonically (including an LL Cool J sample) and a little echo of Erotica in the way the "I'd like to hurt you" line is sung. It's kind of like a sequel to Justify my Love where she's got fed up waiting and kisses him off.
The words "this is not a love song" is a sly wink to the Prince duet of the same name on "Like A Prayer" , so maybe it had that Prince influence via that
@@izzyworld8068 The single came only in Australia (after ''Rain'') in single to surfacing to her first tour in Australia with the Girlie Show, since she never touring in Australia before.
As Mark stated, it's done as a message, so it has that answerphone "sound" to it. As for the production, again, Pettibone using his skills to great effect. As you pointed out , it has a R&B flava. Using all the experience of remixing artists like Janet Jackson (who he was remixing just before and around this time), he pulls on all he learned from their those sonics and pours them back into this album. If you listen to a remix of a track "Sitting in the Lap of Luxury" by Louis Louis , particularly the 12" mixes, lots of similar scratching, sounds and samples (the James Brown-esque "huh!") were all part of the Louis Louis track, and a similar treatment is used here. It also has a similar production approach as the aforementioned Janet Jackson, particularly "The Knowledge" from her "Rhythm Nation" album, produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, formerly of a band "The Time", who were part of the Paisley Park empire Prince headed
This song was labeled a dance and hip-hop song. This album was a mix of hip-hop and House outside for ''Rain'', ''In This life'' and ''Bad Girl'', who it's was three mid tempo RnB ballads.
It's designed to sound like an answerphone message, hence the vocal treatment. I like how it's kind of sing-song and nursery rhyme like while delivering quite harsh words, then towards the end the spoken part gets serious as she goes in for the kill. It's fun, plenty of interesting stuff going on sonically (including an LL Cool J sample) and a little echo of Erotica in the way the "I'd like to hurt you" line is sung. It's kind of like a sequel to Justify my Love where she's got fed up waiting and kisses him off.
"This is not a love song" - Track 3 Erotica
Track 3 Like a Prayer - Love Song
Love this song! A groovy groove indeed. 🙂
One of my favorites. Congrats on 4K!
Thank you! The channel has turned into a lovely community of music-lovers (and a few wisecrackers, lol) 😊
The words "this is not a love song" is a sly wink to the Prince duet of the same name on "Like A Prayer" , so maybe it had that Prince influence via that
Underrated and this single has my favorite remixes of all the singles from this album, with the exception of the Fever video remix.
Was It a single? It wasn't in the UK
@@izzyworld8068 The single came only in Australia (after ''Rain'') in single to surfacing to her first tour in Australia with the Girlie Show, since she never touring in Australia before.
@@WCD199317 I'll try and find some of the remixes on RUclips as I didn't know about them till now!
This song used a filter when she recording her voice for the song. Because she wanted to sound like a phone machine in the song.
An EP of remixes of this song has also been released.
As Mark stated, it's done as a message, so it has that answerphone "sound" to it. As for the production, again, Pettibone using his skills to great effect. As you pointed out , it has a R&B flava. Using all the experience of remixing artists like Janet Jackson (who he was remixing just before and around this time), he pulls on all he learned from their those sonics and pours them back into this album. If you listen to a remix of a track "Sitting in the Lap of Luxury" by Louis Louis , particularly the 12" mixes, lots of similar scratching, sounds and samples (the James Brown-esque "huh!") were all part of the Louis Louis track, and a similar treatment is used here.
It also has a similar production approach as the aforementioned Janet Jackson, particularly "The Knowledge" from her "Rhythm Nation" album, produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, formerly of a band "The Time", who were part of the Paisley Park empire Prince headed
This song was labeled a dance and hip-hop song. This album was a mix of hip-hop and House outside for ''Rain'', ''In This life'' and ''Bad Girl'', who it's was three mid tempo RnB ballads.
@@WCD199317 I'm not good at these "boxes" they put these in, lol 😆
@WCD199317 after seeing the remixes on Discogs I think they labelled the track as those genres on the remix styles rather than the album version