What does marvin gaye mean
Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”
Lydia Hutchinson | March 31, 2017
The spring of 1970 was a dark time for Marvin Gaye. His beloved duet boyfriend Tammi Terrell had died after a three-year struggle with a brain tumor. His brother Frankie had returned from Vietnam with horror stories that moved Marvin to tears. And at Motown, Marvin was stymied in his quest to address social issues in his music.
While he was pondering his next move, a anthem fell in his lap that would provide a channel for all his sorrow and frustration.
The initial idea for “What’s Going On” came to Four Tops member Obie Benson when he was in San Francisco in 1969.
“They had the Haight-Ashbury then, all the kids up there with the lengthy hair and everything,” he told MOJO. “The police was beating on the kids, but they wasn’t bothering anybody. I saw this, and started wondering what was going on. ‘What is happening here?’ One question leads to another. ‘Why are they sending kids so far away from their families overseas?’ And so on.”
Benson shaped his tune with fellow Motown writer Al Cleveland, then pitched it to the Four Tops. But they weren’t interested in a rally song. Obie pl
Marley and I were running errands recently and since she won’t let me listen to territory music while she’s in the car we were listening to the pop station 104.3 My FM when the song Marvin Gaye by Charlie Puth featuring Meghan Trainor came on the radio and I started singing along.
Marley scrunched up her face and said, “What are these lyrics? What does that mean?”
I smiled, glad she was making a face at the song and not at my singing. (Although who knows, it could possess been both.)
If you’re unfamiliar with the song the lyrics commence out with:
Let’s Marvin Gaye and get it on
You got the healing that I want
Just like they say it in the song
Until the dawn, let’s Marvin Gaye and get it on
“Well,” I said, “Marvin Gaye was a heart singer in the 60’s and 70’s. He had a huge hit called Let’s Get It On, that was out in the 70’s I think, and then had kind of a come back with a anthem called Sexual Healing in the early 80’s.
“So, when they say, Let’s Marvin Gaye and get it on, what they’re saying is, ‘Let’s put on some sexy song and have sex.'”
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These next few reviews are going to be odd, if only because they’re for songs that I’m not convinced I can offer an unbiased, analytical response to. These songs just deeply annoy me; they’re exactly the type of things that I hate. Yet I’m not convinced that they’re horrible songs per declare – they’re adequate texts, they’re just ones I don’t respond to well.
Of course, I race a review blog; all of my work is inherently biased – the idea of an unbiased, purely analytical reading of anything is a fallacy. But let’s allow that curtain release for once: we can go help to theorising on the state of modern pop tune and on the alchemal sexual politics of Little Mix songs after I’ve just got a few rants off my chest. Up first:
Marvin Gaye – Charlie Puth feat. Meghan Trainor
I hated Charlie Puth’s last anthem because his performance ripped off Sam Smith. I hated Meghan Trainor’s last No. 1 because of her regressive sexual politics and the evidence that she somehow managed to rip herself off. Yet combine both of them into one song and I don’t mind it: Puth sounds like himself this time while Trainor pro
The tragic story of Marvin Gaye and the untimely death of a spirit legend
27 March 2024, 10:15
Marvin Gaye was one of the greatest soul singers of all time, but his life and career were cut tragically small in 1984, aged just 44.
40 years on, we take a look support at the great dude, and exactly what happened with Marvin Gaye and his father.
Who was Marvin Gaye?
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (Video)
Marvin Gaye was an American singer, songwriter and producer.
He was one of the main singers that created the Motown sound of the 1960s, first as a session performer and later as a solo artist. His Motown hits included 'How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)' and 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine', and duets with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell.
In the 1970s, he recorded the albums What's Going On and Let's Get It On, becoming one of the first artists from Motown (along with Stevie Wonder) to break away from the company on his own merit.
After a period in Europe as a tax exile in the early 1980s, he made a successful comeback with the 1982 Grammy Award-winning hit 'Sexual Healing' and its album Midnight Lo