TOP 10 SEXY SONGS
- Jun 30, 2017
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 23, 2023
Music can really get you in the mood to be good, cheeky or naughty in the bedroom. We can even relive memorable sexual adventures and encounters when we close our eyes to some sexy tracks.
Here's our pick of our favourite Top 10 Sexy Songs to get you toe curling, lip biting and goose bump ridden whenever you want to be swept away in a moment of ecstasy.
1. S.E.X - Madonna
Characterised by a mechanised, stock mod-pop beat, "S.E.X." is a song that straddles a delicate line between articulating the intensity of its namesake and reading like weird fan-fiction. "Wanna put my hands around your neck/Gonna take you to a place that you will not forget" is the Pop Empress at her most subtly sensual. And then lines like, "Oh my God, let me clean your wound/I can be your nurse" make it pretty clear why this was a B-side.
2. Close Up - Peaches FT Kim Gordon (2015)
Kim Gordon from Sonic Youthβs breathy, spoken word vocals cut with the strong, hectic lyrics of Peaches, a 47 year old female musical boss, make this song a future feminist classic. Lyrics like βDiminish the pillage, a privilege to visit my village, are you finished? Saw shrinkage, your seeds arenβt coins in my mintage.β
3. Work It - Missy Elliot (2002)
With lyrics like, βIβd like to get to know ya so I could show ya, put the pussy on ya like I told ya,β and, βYour girlfriend want to be me never, go downtown and eat it like a vulture,β itβs an infectious dance floor classic that gives new meaning to the phrase βdancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desireβ.
4. Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye (1982)
Slow, sweet and funky, Sexual Healing remains a timeless, old school classic to this day. Listening to it now, it seems quite tame compared to the explicit content you can hear these days. Thatβs itβs charm. Still, with verses such as, βCome take control, just grab a hold, Of my body and mind, soon weβll be making it honey, Iβll be feeling fine, Youβre my medicine, open up and let me in, Darling, youβre so great, I canβt wait for you to operate,β this tune that will make you want some sexy time.
5. Close - Nick Jonas FT Tove Lo (1982)
This song isnβt even about sex but the breathy way that Nick Jonas and Tove Lo sing it, youβd think that was exactly what they were talking about.
6. Retrograde - James Blake (1982)
We really, really wanted there to be something on James Blakeβs new album that we could add to this list, but unfortunately there just wasnβt anything as sexy as his classic βRetrogradeβ so weβre adding it anyway.
7. Daddy Issues - The Neighbourhood (1982)
Sure, the title (and admittedly some of the lyrics) might not scream βsexy,β but the beats behind this track and its slow, melodic lyrics make it perfect for a lazy βstay-in-bed-all-dayβ session with your man.
8. Freak - Lana Del Rey (1982)
If you like to channel 50 Shades Of Grey during your nookie sessions than there is nobody better to listen to than Lana Del Ray. Her new album Honeymoon is full of sexy songs but βFreakβ definitely tops the list.
9. Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande (1982)
If the lyrics to this song donβt make you want to get all Fifty Shades up in there with your man, we donβt know what possibly could.
10. All Night - Beyonce (1982)
Just one of the surefire hits from Beyonceβs new album Lemonade, βAll Nightβ details what Queen Bey herself plans to do to her man when she gets him alone. What she plans to do, ahem, all nightβ¦ (track gets going around 3:09).
