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| Label = | Writer = | Producer = Narada Michael Walden | Last single = "I Like It" (1985) | This single = "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" (1986) | Next single = "Frantic Romantic"/"Versatile" (1986) }} "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" (released in the United Kingdom as "We Don't Have To...") is American R&B vocalist Jermaine Stewart's first of three singles from 1986. The song was included on Stewart's second album ''Frantic Romantic''. "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" remains Stewart's biggest commercial success in both America and Europe. The song acquired a great deal of success after being used on the hit 1980s television show ''Miami Vice'', and reached number 2 on the UK and Canadian chart, as well as going to number 5 in the U.S. This was Stewart's biggest hit in these countries. ==Background== "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" was written by Narada Michael Walden and Preston Glass. Walden is a well-known American producer, drummer, singer, and songwriter. Stewart recorded it during 1985 and it was released across the world the following summer, reaching the top 10 in both the USA and the UK. The single seemed to reflect more modesty when it came to sex in light of the AIDS pandemic at the time. In 1988, Stewart was interviewed by Donnie Simpson where Stewart spoke of the lyrical message within the song. ''"I think it made a lot of peoples' minds open up a little bit. We didn't only want to just talk about clothes, we wanted to extend that. We wanted to use the song as a theme to be able to say you don't have to do all the negative things that society forces on you. You don't have to drink and drive. You don't have to take drugs early. The girls don't have to get pregnant early. So the clothes bit of it was to get people's attention, which it did and I'm glad it was a positive message."'' The previous single "I Like It" failed to make much impact as a follow up to Stewart's debut single "The Word Is Out". "I Like It" failed to chart in either the UK or America. A popular promotional video was created for the single as well as numerous TV performances to promote the single. It was directed by David Fincher. In 2011 the song was used in a Cadbury advert in the UK called ''The Charity Shop''. This exposed the song to a new generation who downloaded the track and returned it to the UK Top 40 reaching No. 29. The song also appeared in Kevin Smith's film ''Zack and Miri Make a Porno'', and the episode "My Dirty Secret" of the television show ''Scrubs''. The song has been covered a number of times and versions have been released by Clea, Lil' Chris and Ella Eyre, while it also provided the hook for Gym Class Heroes' fifth single "Clothes Off!!" and was sampled by rapper Mase on his album ''Welcome Back''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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