Super Freak

Album: Street Songs (1981)
Charted: 16
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  • She's a very kinky girl
    The kind you don't take home to mother
    She will never let your spirits down
    Once you get her off the street, oh girl

    She likes the boys in the band
    She says that I'm her all time favorite
    When I make my move to her room
    It's the right time, she's never hard to please, oh no

    That girl is pretty wild now
    The girl's a super freak
    The kind of girl you read about
    In new-wave magazines
    That girl is pretty kinky
    The girl's a super freak
    I'd really love to taste her
    Every time we meet

    She's all right, she's all right
    That girl's all right with me, yeah
    Hey, hey, hey, hey

    She's a super freak, super freak
    She's super freaky, yow
    Everybody sing
    Super freak, super freak

    She's a very special girl (the kind of girl you want around)
    From her head down to her toenails (down to her feet, yeah)
    And she'll wait for me at backstage with her girlfriends
    In a limousine (long and black and shiny, now)
    Three's not a crowd to her, she said (ménage à trois, oh my God)
    "Room 714, I'll be waiting"
    When I get there she's got incense, wine and candles
    It's such a freaky scene

    That girl is pretty kinky
    The girl's a super freak
    The kind of girl you read about
    In new-wave magazines
    That girl is pretty wild now
    The girl's a super freak
    I'd really like to taste her
    Every time we meet

    She's all right, she's all right
    That girl's all right with me, yeah
    Hey, hey, hey, hey

    She's a super freak, super freak
    She's super freaky, yow
    Temptations sing
    Ohh

    Super freak, super freak
    That girl's a super freak
    Ohh

    She's a very kinky girl
    The kind you won't take home to mother
    And she will never let your spirits down
    Once you get her off the street
    Blow Danny

    Ow, girl
    Ow, girl Writer/s: Alonzo Miller, Rick James
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 17

  • Nan C from Tucson AzBoth Super Freak and I Cant Touch This, rip and riff off of The Commissars In Town , right? How come nobody mentions that?!?!?
  • Carl Hagemann from TexasWho was the blonde dancer in the video?
  • Ricardo from Mexico CityThe so called "genius" Prince never pinned a funk song so good and inmediate to the people taste. Fantastic song
  • Luis Willis from St. Catharines, OnGreat funk music from a legend.. as for the video having half naked women? I'm still looking for them!
  • Biff from Pensacola, FlMore Rick James informaition for you: James had a journeyman's career playing bass in various groups before signing again to Motown as an artist, songwriter, and producer. His first single, "You and I" (May 1978), topped the R&B charts and reached the pop Top 40. "Mary Jane" (September 1978) was another hit. Both were on James' debut album, Come Get It! (June 1978), which went gold. Subsequent efforts were not as successful, though Bustin' Out of L Seven (January 1979) featured the R&B hit "Bustin' Out" (April 1979). James returned to form with the number one R&B hit "Give It to Me Baby" (March 1981), featured on the million-selling Street Songs (April 1981), which also featured the hit "Super Freak."

    James turned his production attention to resuscitating the career of the Temptations, recently returned to Motown, and "Standing on the Top" (April 1982), credited to the Temptations featuring Rick James, was an R&B Top Ten. (He also produced recordings by Teena Marie and the Mary Jane Girls.) James' follow-up to Street Songs was the gold-selling Throwin' Down (May 1982), which featured the hit "Dance Wit' Me." The title song of Cold Blooded (August 1983) became James' third R&B number one, and the album also featured his hit duet with Smokey Robinson, "Ebony Eyes." James' greatest-hits album Reflections (August 1984) featured the new track "17" (June 1984), which also became a hit. Glow (April 1985) contained Top Ten R&B singles in the title track and "Can't Stop," which was featured in the summer movie blockbuster Beverly Hills Cop. The Flag (June 1986) featured the hit "Sweet and Sexy Thing" (May 1986).
  • Biff from Pensacola, FlRick James was a HUGE solo artist. He had gold and platinum albums as a solo artist. He broke many attendance records at various arenas. Between 1979- 1985 There weren't many artist as popular and big as him.
  • Kitrik from Edmonton, AbIt's appaulling to read comment insinuating without Super freak rick didnt have success. He got a million dollar advance from Motown for 10 straight albums just to write them, he single handedly saved Motown from going under with the Street Songs album. He toured the world to sellout crowds. If he would have catered to "The Pop audience" instead of pumping out heavy funk He woulda been 10 times bigger. And that Chappelle show s--t made him a household name, but not for the right reasons. He was a musical genius who could write and produce a hit with the snap of his fingers.....so if that isn't success WTF is? Also in fact he did write Super Freak as a joke so and I quote rick "so that white people could have something to dance to" backing up my point if he woulda wrote a whole album of Super Freaks he woulda sold 20 million copies.

    "No Sell Out"
  • John from Eugene, OrRick James died in Los Angeles August 6, 2004 of a heart attack. By the way, did you know that Rick was in a rock group with Neil Young called the Mynah Birds? He was AWOL from the Navy at the time and the authorities came and got him.
  • John from Eugene, Or'Super Freak' was released on Gordy records, not Motown.Be careful what you read up on the 'facts' sheet, it's not always accurate.
  • Kara from Crossett, Arlove this song
  • John from Grand Island, NyBuffalo loves you Rick...
  • Craig Lee from Valdosta, GaThe song mentions "room 714, I'll be waiting". 714 was street slang for metaqualone; more commonly known as "Quaaludes". These hypnotic sedatives were often used to aid in "crashing" frpm a cocaine binge.
  • John from Nashville, TnAlonzo Miller was a California deejay who banned guitarist/producer Nile Rodger's record "Yum Yum" from his show for being too sexual. In an editorial for Billboard magazine, Nile wrote that he found it ironic that his record was being banned by a guy who co-wrote a song celebrating group sex.
  • Mark from Byrdstown, TnLove James or hate him you'll have to admit this is a catchy tune.Sadly for James this massive hit made it possible for him to jump headfirst into a mountain of cocaine and not come up until his heart blew out.

    The episode of "Chapelle's Show" where Charlie Murphy ,Eddie's brother ,and James is on is hilarious.
  • Lorelei from Ellsworth, Mewow people are always slamming on michael jackson but atleast hes not as bad as rick james! (althugh i do love both of their music)
  • John from Edinburg, VaAbsolutlely perfect choice for the defining scene of the recent movie, Little Miss Sunshine. One of the great moments in film history as the bonding of a family is immortailized by an unlikely song.
  • Jimoh from The Bronx Ny, Ny"Super Freak" (from James' 1981 album STREET SONGS) has two people credited as the authors: Rick James and his friend, a Los Angeles radio disc jockey named Alonzo Miller. When MC Hammer sampled the song for his massive 1990 hit "U Can't Touch This", he also credited them as co-writers of the song. The result: when "U Can't Touch This" won the 1991 Grammy for Best R&B Song, so did James and Miller.
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