Cabaret

Album: The 20/20 Experience: 2 of 2 (2013)
Play Video

Songfacts®:

  • This super-charged sex anthem finds JT taking the bawdiness of a cabaret to the bedroom. The song features Drake, who throws in an Eddie Murphy reference ("On my Eddie Murphy Boomerang for ya. Got a bunch of old girls that I threw away for ya"). Boomerang was a 1992 movie starring Murphy.

    The song was the first collaboration between Drake and Timberlake.
  • Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring variety turns. Its name derives from the French 'cambret' meaning tavern. The audience usually sits at tables, often dining or drinking and the entertainment is often oriented towards adult audiences. The first cabaret was opened in Montmartre, Paris on November 18, 1881 by the painter Rudolphe Salis. He called it a cabaret because the songs and sketches were set forth like courses on a menu. Salis' Montmartre premises housed not only Friday night poetry readings but also elaborate shadow plays, scripted, designed and musically accompanied by leading artists. Cabaret entertainment was imported to America from France by Jesse Louis Lasky in 1911.

Comments

Be the first to comment...

Editor's Picks

Metallica

MetallicaFact or Fiction

Beef with Bon Jovi? An unfortunate Spandex period? See if you can spot the true stories in this Metallica version of Fact or Fiction.

Grunge Bands Quiz

Grunge Bands QuizMusic Quiz

If the name Citizen Dick means anything to you, there's a chance you'll get some of these right.

Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins

Tom Bailey of Thompson TwinsSongwriter Interviews

Tom stopped performing Thompson Twins songs in 1987, in part because of their personal nature: "Hold Me Now" came after an argument with his bandmate/girlfriend Alannah Currie.

John Doe of X

John Doe of XSongwriter Interviews

With his X-wife Exene, John fronts the band X and writes their songs.

Booker T. Jones

Booker T. JonesSongwriter Interviews

The Stax legend on how he cooked up "Green Onions," the first time he and Otis Redding saw hippies, and if he'll ever play a digital organ.

John Waite

John WaiteSongwriter Interviews

"Missing You" was a spontaneous outpouring of emotion triggered by a phone call. John tells that story and explains what MTV meant to his career.