Songfacts®:

• This upbeat banger from the early '90s is actually kind of sad. In the song, Stevie B falls hard for a girl who says she loves him and will always be by his side. Well, that's a lie - she up and leaves him, and now he needs some love and emotion.
  
  The song was written by Warren Allen Brooks, and it's based on his real life. Speaking with Songfacts, he explained: "I had dated this girl from Sweden, and she told me all this stuff about how she was going to stay and do this and that, so I put it in the song:
  
  Told me that you're gonna stay
  Then you up and went away
  
  It's basically an autobiography of what was going on with her at the time."
• Stevie B was big in the freestyle genre, so that's how this song is often classified, but according to it's writer, Warren Allen Brooks, it's based on the go-go sound that was emerging from Washington, DC. Listen to Kid 'n Play from that era (or watch their Houseparty movies) to hear more go-go music.
• "Love And Emotion" is the title track and lead single from Stevie B's third album. He was part of the Miami freestyle scene, making dance music with electronic sounds and a Latin influence. His early singles - songs like "Dreamin' Of Love" and "I Wanna Be The One" - did well in clubs and reached the pop charts, but didn't go mainstream. He wrote and produced these songs himself, but when he worked on his Love And Emotion album, he teamed with Warren Allen Brooks, who contributed five songs. The song "Love And Emotion" went to #15 in September 1990, giving Stevie B his best chart placing to that point. But his next single, the ballad "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)," crossed over in a big way, going to #1, where it stayed for four weeks. That song was also written by Brooks.