Robert Palmer followed his Power Station hit ‘Some Like It Hot’ and his solo breakout ‘Addicted to Love’ with another lusty rocker with just the right amount of synth: ‘Simply Irresistible,’ a song about an enticing woman who gets whatever she wants from her man.
‘Simply Irresistible’ is the first single released by English rock singer Robert Palmer from the 1988 studio album Heavy Nova. In 1988, the song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, being denied the top spot for two weeks by Guns N' Roses' ‘Sweet Child o' Mine’. It was No. 1 on Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks for three weeks. It also earned Palmer his second Grammy Award the following year, and the song was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single. Cash Box called it a "hard charging power-guitar-fuelled rocker".
Palmer brought back the models from ‘Addicted To Love’ for the music video, but this time they've multiplied! Five of them do choreographed dance moves, but another eight stand behind Palmer looking bored. The music video was directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan and shows Palmer surrounded by numerous women, all with the same heavy makeup and sweptback hair style. The video features women that Palmer met while visiting the Kentucky Derby (Karen Aubrey McElfresh, Kim Jones, Cheryl Day and Betty-Jo Cox).
The big, sexy hook in this song is the pause after Palmer sings, "Now I find her." After some drumbeats, he comes back with "...simply irresistible." The song was in the works for three years before Palmer came up with this part, making the song complete. "A little thing like that makes the difference between an idea and the complete song," he wrote in his Addictions: Volume 1 liner notes, adding, "I like the manic military rhythm and the strong counter melody." Palmer won the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male for this song, the same award he won two years earlier for ‘Addicted To Love.’
Labels – EMI, Manhattan
Songwriter – Robert Palmer
Producer – Robert Palmer
SONG LYRICS
[Verse 1]How can it be permissible?
She compromise my principle, yeah, yeah
That kind of love is mythical
She's anything but typical
[Bridge]
She's a craze you'd endorse
She's a powerful force
You're obliged to conform
When there's no other course
She used to look good to me
But now I find her
[Chorus]
Simply irresistible
Simply irresistible
[Verse 2]
Her loving is so powerful, huh!
It's simply unavoidable
The trend is irreversible
The woman is invincible
[Bridge]
She's a natural law
And she leaves me in awe
She deserves the applause
I surrender because
She used to look good to me
But now I find her
[Chorus]
Simply irresistible
Simply irresistible
Simply irresistible
(She's so fine
There's no tellin' where the money went)
Simply irresistible
(She's all mine, there's no other way to go)
[Bridge]
She's unavoidable
I'm backed against the wall
She gives me feelings like I never felt before
I'm breaking promises
She's breaking every law
She used to look good to me
Now I find her
[Chorus]
Simply irresistible
(She's so fine
There's no tellin' where the money went)
Simply irresistible
(She's all mine, there's no other way to go)
[Verse 3]
Her methods are inscrutable
The proof is irrefutable, (ooh...)
She's so completely kissable, huh
Our lives are indivisible, yeah yeah
[Bridge]
She's a craze you'd endorse
She's a powerful force
You're obliged to conform
When there's no other course
She used to look good to me
But now I find her
[Chorus]
Simply irresistible
(She's so fine
There's no tellin' where the money went)
Simply irresistible
(She's all mine, there's no other way to go)
Simply irresistible
(She's so fine
There's no tellin' where the money went)
Simply irresistible
(She's all mine, there's no other way to go)
[Outro]
Simply irresistible!