This Friday marks the 30th anniversary of the release of R&B group Color Me Badd's debut album, C.M.B. The album made an immediate and lasting splash, reaching #3 on the Billboard album chart and staying on the Billboard 200 for 77 weeks. Within a year, it was certified triple platinum in the U.S.
Five singles from C.M.B. reached the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, with three Top 10s and two #1s: "I Adore Mi Amor" (#1), "All 4 Love" (#1), "I Wanna Sex You Up" (#2), "Thinkin' Back" (#16), and "Slow Motion" (#18). In my opinion, "I Wanna Sex You Up" -- with it's sampling of "to the tick tock ya don't stop" from Slick Rick''s "La Di Da Di" -- is the best of the bunch, and it was a particularly popular song during my eighth grade year, when everyone wanted to sex others up, but we had no idea how to do so, despite our science and health teachers' best efforts at teaching us the ins and outs of sex education.
The song was a huge international hit, not only going to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard R&B Singles and Dance Singles charts, but also #1 in the UK and New Zealand, and Top 10 on eleven other international pop charts.
The video for "I Wanna Sex You Up" is a clinic in the ridiculousness of early '90s fashion, from the Kenny G lookalike to the George Michael lookalike to the Terence Trent D'Arby lookalike to the Vanilla Ice lookalike. And, of course, there's the synchronized dance moves that are superb.
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