Tonight (I’m Fucking You)
Enrique Inglesias feat. Ludacris
Call me puritanical, but this title threw me off guard. True, we’ve been heading in this direction for a while. We’ve had little blips of this in pop music — Willa Ford’s “Fuck the Men,” Lily Allen’s “Fuck You.” But it struck me as a revolution for a mainstream pop artist to use the F-bomb in the chorus of a radio single. Ten years ago, you’d never catch a vanilla pop artist like Enrique taking a chance like this. In 2000, Enrique was crooning how much he “just wants to be with you.” Ten years on, we’ve got the full disclosure of what he wants to do once he’s there. Following the Latin house sound that put him back on the map with “I Like It,” “Tonight” has a galloping beat and “we’re being naughty” keyboards, and sticks in your head like silicone lube on cotton sheets. Enrique’s simple voice continues its tasty love affair with Auto-Tune and is nicely punctuated by Ludacris’s breaky dub. In its edited version it becomes “Tonight I’m lovin’ you” so the teens and tweens can keep up the belief that Iglesias is just a doe-eyed Latin lover with nothing but the most romantic of intentions. Remixes, both official and bootleg, are trickling out, including club rubs by Dresden & Johnson, Chuckie, Bit Error and Richard Vission.
