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Come "What's Goin' On" sta all'impegno politico e sociale, alle tematiche religiose e ambientali, così "Let's Get It On" sta all'amore, al sesso persino. Questo brusco passaggio, questo cambio di rotta si comprende se si considera che fra il 1971 di "What's Goin' On" e il 1973 di "Let's Get It On" ne erano successe di cose. Principalmente due ci interessano: la musica funk si era definitivamente affermata e anzi viveva in quel periodo il suo momento migliore. E allora il soul etereo e psichedelico del riconosciuto capolavoro di Marvin Gaye evolve in un sound più marcato e aggressivo. Inoltre nel 1973 Marvin si innamora di Janis Hunter e lascia perciò la prima moglie Anna Gordy. Ecco allora che Marvin sente il bisogno di abbandonare l'impegno civile e parlare di quello che in quel momento è la sua vita: l'amore. E' un passaggio questo che è emblematico anche della differenza di tematiche fra gli anni '60 e i '70, perchè "What's Goin' On", pur essendo del '71, è un disco pienamente anni '60, per i testi e in parte per il suono, mentre il suo successore "Let's Get It On" è un classico disco funk/soul anni '70.
Se prima ho affermato che il sound è diventato più aggressivo, non intendo certo dire che Gaye s'è messo a suonare il P-Funk dei Parliament-Funkadelic. Le sue sonorità sono ancora soul (e lo saranno fino all'ultimo disco), ma acquistano dei ritmi e delle situazioni che qualcuno tempo dopo ha definito "sweet funk". La nuova dimensione di Marvin Gaye si esplica in un passaggio della title-track: "Givin' yourself to me, can never be wrong, if the love is true", Così è l'album, semplice, chiaro ma non volgare, sempre appassionato e mai violento. E, ascoltando questa frase e tutto il disco in generale, non può che nascere un sorriso sul volto, perchè si entra nella vibrazione, nel groove, in un nuovo mondo. "Let's Get It On" non si evidenzia ovviamente solo per la title-track, ma tutte le canzoni sono di grande spessore, e vanno citate sicuramente "Please Stay (Once You Go Away)" e "You Sure Love To Ball", o anche "Keep Gettin' It On", sorta di reprise della title-track, o la dolce "Distant Lover". Ma soprattutto c'è da citare la conclusiva "Just To Keep You Satisfied". Per fare un paragone forse un po' azzardato, "Desolation Row" è l'ultimo guizzo acustico di Bob Dylan posto a chiudere l'elettrico "Highway 61 Revisited" come "Just To Keep You Satisfied" è l'ultimo richiamo a quel suono più mellifluo e fluido che caratterizzava "What's Goin' On" ed è posto sul finire di un disco, come già detto, dalle sonorità più aggressive. A differenziare l'ultima traccia dalle sette precedenti è anche la dedica: tutto il disco è scritto e pensato per il nuovo amore Janis Hunter, mentre l'ultimo brano è dedicato al passato, ad Anna Gordy, un addio in musica, un sentimentale saluto per dire, con serenità "It's too late for you and I, much too late for you to cry...". Parole semplicissime per racchiudere una sensazione quasi impalpabile: il cambiamento in corso. Fanno accapponare la pelle quelle parole, percepite poi dopo più di mezz'ora ad alto contenuto di ammiccamenti e sorrisetti maliziosi. L'intero "Let's Get It On" dipinge il cambiamento, è l'emblema del cambiamento, nella vita di Marvin Gaye, nella musica afroamericana, nella sua musica. Ed è un capolavoro.
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01 Let's Get It On (04:51)
I've been really tryin', baby
Tryin' to hold back this feelin' for so long
And if you feel like I feel, baby
Then come on, oh come on
Let's get it on, ah baby
Let's get it on, let's love, baby
Let's get it on, sugar
Let's get it on, whoo-ooh-ooh
We're all sensitive people
With so much to give, understanding, sugar
Since we got to be
Let's live, I love you
There's nothing wrong with me
Lovin' you, baby no no
And givin' yourself to me could never be wrong
If the love is true, oh baby
Don't you know how sweet and wonderful
Life can be?
I'm asking you baby
To get it on with me
I ain't gonna worry
I ain't gonna push, I won't push you baby
So come on, come on, come on, come on, come on baby
Stop beatin' 'round the bush
Let's get it on
Let's get it on, you know what I'm talkin' about
Come on baby, hey hey, let your love come out
If you believe in love,
Let's get it on, let's get it on, baby
This minute, oh yeah
Let's get it on, please,
Please get it on
I know that you know what I've been dreaming of
Don't you baby?
My whole body wants the feeling of love,
Ah help me!
I ain't gonna worry,
No I ain't gonna push, I won't push you baby
So come on, come on, come on, come on, come on darlin'
Stop beatin' 'round the bush
Oh, gonna get it on, threatening you, baby
I want to get it on, you don't have to worry that it's wrong
If the spirit moves you, let me groove you
Good, let your love come down, oh, get it on,
Come on baby, do you know the meaning of being sanctified?
Ah...
Girl, you give me good feelings, so good, something like sanctifying
Oh, do right baby.
Nothing wrong with love, if you wanna love me baby,
Just let yourself go, oh, baby, let's get it on
03 If I Should Die Tonight (04:00)
Oh, If I should die tonight
Oh baby, it would be far before my time
I won't die blue, sugar yeah
'Cause I've known you
Oooh, oh, how many eyes
Have seen their dream
Oh, how many arms
Have felt their dream
How many hearts, baby...
Have felt their world stand still
Millions never, they never never
And millions never will baby
They never will
If I should die tonight love
Darlin', it would be far before my time
I won't die blue
'Cause I've known you
Oooh, oh, I'm thankful that you're lovin' me
My one desire
Is to love you 'til
I'm no longer here and never tire
You always been so good to me
I'm so thankful
Oooh, oh, how many eyes
Have seen their dream
How many arms
Have felt their dream
How many hearts, oh darlin'
Have felt their world stand still
Oh Lord!
Millions never, no, never
And millions never will, sugar
They never will
If I should die tonight, ahhh baby
I just want you to keep this thought in mind
That I would never die blue...
'Cause I've known you
Oooh!!
06 Distant Lover (04:16)
You know, when you're in love and your lover leaves you
And you've got nobody, the lonely hours over here
Sittin' home and thinkin', you say:
Distant Lover, Lover
Ooh ,So many miles away ooh heaven knows that I long for you
Every night,every night and sometimes i yearn through the day.
Distant Lover ! oooh lover you should think about me say a prayer
for me. Please Please baby think about me sometime, think about me yeah.
Hey in Misery, Misery
As i reminisce , ooh baby through our joyful summer together, the promises we made of the daily letter,then all of a sudden everything seemed to explode. Now i gaze out my window sugar down the lonesome road.
Distant lover ooh ooh sugar, how can you treat my heart so mean and cruel, don't you know sugar that every moment that I spent with you i treasured it like it was a precious jewel. oooh Baby
LORD HAVE MERCY!
OOH BABY DON'T GO, PLEASE COME BACK BABY.
SOMETHING I WANNA SAY , WHEN YOU LEFT YOU TOOK ALL OF ME WITH YOU NOW LORD I WONDER DO YOU WANNA HEAR ME SCREAM AND PLEAD.PLEASE, PLEASE COME BACK HOME GIRL ,PLEASE BABY COME BACK HOME.
Oh baby, don't go
Please come back, baby
Ooo, something I wanna say
When you left to go away
No 'ther do I want, do you wanna have me plead and scream
Please! Please, oh please baby
Come back home, girl
Oh baby, come back
Oh oh
08 Just to Keep You Satisfied (04:27)
You were my wife, my life, my hopes and dreams
For you to understand what this means, I shall explain
I stood all the jealousy, all the bitchin' too
Yes, I'd forget it all once in bed with you
Ooo darling how could we end up like this?
Oh baby let me reminisce
Oh and when we, woo, stopped the hands of time
You set my soul on fire, my one desire
Was to love you and think of you with pride
And keep you satisfied, oh baby oh baby
We could not bear the mental strain
Leave you, I laugh at men too
Now you see how much you hurt me
But if you ever need me, I'll be by your side
Though the many happy times we had
Can never really outweigh the bad
Oh I'll never love nobody like I loved you baby
It's time for us to say farewell, farewell my darlin'
Maybe we'll meet down the line
It's too late for you and me, it's too late for you and I
Much too late for you to cry
It's too late for you and me, much too late for you and I
It's too late for you and me, much too late for you to cry baby
Ah we tried, God knows we tried
Now it's too late to live and love and ah it's too late baby
It's too late for you and me, much too late for you to cry
Oh oh ohhh it's much too late
Well, all we can do is, we can both try to be happy
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