Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"

One Song

Hartbeat

Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Onesong, Comedy, Music

4.9 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This is THE sexiest One Song episode yet! To celebrate Valentine’s Day LUXXURY and Diallo are dissecting Marvin Gaye’s classic ode to lust: Let’s Get It On. Come for the exquisitely horny wa wa pedal, stay for the supremely lush vocal stems.

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0:00.0	One Song Nation, put those kids to bed and prepare to make more kids.
0:16.9	That's right.
0:17.9	That's right.
0:18.8	It's Valentine's.
0:20.0	I'm trying to do sexy ways. It's Valentine's Day here on one song. That's right. That's right. It's Valentine's... I'm trying to do sexy ones.
0:21.1	It's Valentine's Day.
0:22.4	You're on one song.
0:23.9	That's not sexy.
0:25.1	You sound like Bruce Wayne doing Batman.
0:27.0	I know it's not sexy. I will stop.
0:29.0	It's Valentine's Day.
0:30.2	You're listening to one song.
0:31.8	Let's get it on.
0:33.5	Nope. That sounds like a sporting shout.
0:36.0	Let's get it on.
0:38.8	Let's get it on! Let's get it on.
1:01.7	Okay, if you're new here, I'm actor, writer, director, and sometimes DJ Diallo Riddle.
1:08.0	And I'm producer, DJ musicologist, luxury, aka the guy who talks about interpolation on the internet.
1:13.3	And I think it's only appropriate that today, a day for lovers, is the day that we choose to celebrate one of the sexiest songs of all time.
1:16.0	A song that was number one in the U.S., a song that went platinum.
1:20.1	And while there are no exact statistics for this, probably accounted for more unplanned
1:25.2	pregnancies in the 1970s than any other recording.
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