Heart — All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You
In 1990, the American rock band released Heart one of their most talked-about songs from: All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You . This single, from the album Brigade , marked another hit for the band and showed that Heart was not afraid to address themes that were considered taboo at the time.
🎶 Musical style
The song is a typical rock ballad with influences from pop rock and AOR (Album-Oriented Rock), like much of the music from that period. The production is big, with heavy drums, a powerful guitar solo and the distinctive, powerful vocals of Ann Wilson . The melody is compelling and slowly builds up to an intense chorus that lingers immediately.
✍️ Text and theme
what All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You what makes the text so remarkable is the content of the text. It tells the story of a woman who picks up a mystery man on a rainy night, with the aim of getting pregnant — because her own partner can't. The twist in the story isn't revealed until later in the issue: “The child is yours.”
The text is candid and even controversial, and that caused a lot of discussion at the time. Nevertheless, the song became extremely popular, precisely because of that daring story, wrapped in an emotionally powerful ballad.
