![]() ![]() A near-continuation of “Freak Like Me,” the Michigan native adopted G-funk bass and additional percussion to croon not-so-subtle missives to her man of the moment over a thick melody as street as the guest rap’s lyrics (“Fly little honey with that West Coast flava / She told me to leave a 6-9 when I paged her”). No doubt the public found it difficult to accept her as a serious artist due in part to the racy album cover Do You Wanna Ride? donned and the album-leading song, “You Got Me Humpin’,” which she co-wrote. ![]() But Adina drew a particular ire and praise in a tomāto-tomäto conflict between feminists who took issue with her lyrical content and those who claimed her approach was feminist because it preached confidence and control.īut no matter which side of the argument listeners took, collectively, it seemed, they interpreted her act as a gimmick. ![]() ![]() , both of which found lady singers pushing sexual boundaries within the mainstream. True, SWV and Changing Faces dipped into suggestivism with “Downtown” and “Stroke You Up,” respectively and Adina’s full-length debut, Do You Wanna Ride?, existed in an era post- Madonna ’s Erotica and Janet Jackson ’s janet. ![]()
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