Sex Therapy

Album: Sex Therapy: The Therapy (2009)
Charted: 54
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Songfacts®:

  • This bedroom ballad is the title track and lead single from American R&B singer Robin Thicke's fourth studio album.
  • Thicke co-wrote the song with singer-songwriter Ester Dean. Among Dean's other writing credits are "Rude Boy" for Rihanna, "Stronger" for Mary J. Blige and her own Hot 100 hit, "Drop It Low."
  • The song's music video was directed by music video director Melina Matsoukas, at the same mansion where Hilary Duff's "Reach Out" was filmed. Model Saleisha Stowers made a cameo appearance in the clip.
  • Sex Therapy: The Therapy is Thicke's first album with a Parental Advisory warning label printed on it.
  • This was Thicke's second #1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, following "Lost Without U"'s 11-week run in 2007.

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