Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
| Touch Me (I Want Your Body) | |
|---|---|
| Samantha Fox | |
| publication | March 1986 |
| length | 3:44 |
| Genre (s) | Pop , dance , synthpop |
| Author (s) | Jon Astrop, Pete Q. Harris, Mark Shreeve |
| text | Jon Astrop, Pete Q. Harris, Mark Shreeve |
| music | Jon Astrop, Pete Q. Harris |
| album | Touch me |
Touch Me (I Want Your Body) is a song by British pop singer Samantha Fox from 1986. The song was written by Jon Astrop, Pete Q. Harris and Mark Shreeve. It was released in March 1986 as the first song from their debut album Touch Me .
The single became a worldwide success and is still Fox's best known and most successful single. Among other things, Touch Me (I Want Your Body) reached number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 , number 3 in their home country and was a number one hit in Australia , Canada , Norway , Sweden and Switzerland . Her title was number one in Canada for seven consecutive weeks, and eight weeks in Sweden.
Content and music video
The song was recorded in 1986 at Battery Studios in London . Touch Me (I Want Your Body) is about Samantha's search for a husband and her desire for sex .
The music video was shot in the spring of 1986. It shows how Samantha Fox and her band play the piece on a stage in front of their audience. In the video, Samantha Fox wears an open denim jacket and very tight jeans that are supposed to accentuate her curves and bum. While the band is playing in the background of the stage, Samantha Fox is dancing with two guitarists in the foreground . A few times Samantha goes straight into the audience and sings the song next to her fans. In one scene from the music video, a fan comes on stage and Samantha holds him tight and then pulls him over to her so that they both have physical contact, while both dancing and reenacting intimate sex . Then Samantha does the same to one of the guitarists. In some scenes in the video, paparazzi take photos of Samantha Fox, on which you can see her face and she fakes an orgasm . In another scene, Samantha swings through the audience with a rope. Samantha then wets her drummer with water.
The lyrics themselves contain many sexual allusions: "Like a tramp in the night, I was begging for you, to treat my body like you wanted to" and in the chorus "Touch me, touch me, I wanna feel your body, your heartbeat next to mine, touch me, touch me now! ”(German translation:“ Touch me, touch me, I want to feel your body, your heartbeat next to me, touch me, touch me now ”).
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Awards
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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 France (SNEP)
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 silver
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250,000 |
 Canada (MC)
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 gold
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50,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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silver
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250,000 |
| All in all |
2 × silver 1 × gold |
550,000 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ release date
- ↑ German Singles Chart officialcharts.de . Retrieved June 18, 2019.
- ^ Austrian Singles Chart Austriancharts.at . Retrieved December 21, 2007.
- ^ Swiss Singles Chart Hitparade.ch . Retrieved December 21, 2007.
- ↑ Touch Me (I Want Your Body) in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ^ Billboard Allmusic.com . Retrieved January 19, 2009.
- ↑ 1986 Top 100 single year charts. officialcharts.de, accessed on June 18, 2019 .
- ^ 1986 Austrian Singles Chart. Austriancharts, accessed on September 21, 2010 .
- ↑ 1986 Swiss Singles Chart. Swisscharts, accessed on September 21, 2010 .
- ^ Billboard Top 100 - 1987. Longboredsurfer, accessed November 10, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Les Certifications de l'Artiste Choisi. Infodisc, accessed on September 21, 2010 (French).
- ↑ Canada certifications cria.ca . Retrieved January 12, 2009.
- ↑ UK certifications, database. Bpi, accessed September 14, 2014 .