Tone-Loc Songs - Wild Thing Lyrics

Tone-Loc - Wild Thing

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Album: Loc'ed After Dark
Released: 1988

Wild Thing Lyrics

Wild Thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing
Wild thing, I think I love you
But I wanna know for sure
Come on and hold me tight
I love you

Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing
Wild thing, I think you move me
But I wanna know for sure
Come on and hold me tight
You move me

Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing
Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing
Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing

Writer/s: MATT DIKE, ANTHONY T. SMITH, MARVIN YOUNG
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Wild Thing Song Chart

This samples Van Halen's "Jaime's Cryin'." It was not the first time an Eddie Van Halen guitar riff helped a black artist appeal to a white audience. Eddie played the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It," which helped make it a huge hit.

"The Wild Thing" is slang for sex. It was a popular and benign euphemism that worked well in the late '80s when people like Arsenio Hall needed to talk about sex without arousing censors.

This was the first rap song by a black artist to crossover to Pop radio, and also the first rap single to be certified Platinum (Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina" was the second). The Beastie Boys crossed over the year before with "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)."

This was written by Matt Dike, Anthony Smith and Marvin Young. Young, better known as Young MC, had his own hit soon after with "Bust A Move." Dike and Smith had started the record label Delicious Vinyl and signed Tone-Loc. They got the idea for the song after watching the 1986 Spike Lee movie She's Gotta Have It, where Hip-Hop scenester Fab 5 Freddy tells a woman, "Let's do the wild thing!"

Weird Al Yankovic wrote a parody of this song called "Isle Thing," which is about the show Gilligan's Island and can be found on his album UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff. (thanks, Steph - SoCal, CA)