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"Too Funky"
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Single by George Michael
from the album Red Hot + Dance
B-side(s)"Crazyman Dance"
Released1992
FormatCD Single
Recorded1990
GenreDance
Length3:45
LabelColumbia
Writer(s)George Michael
Producer(s)George Michael
CertificationGold (RIAA)
Peak chart positions
  • 3 (Netherlands)
  • 4 (UK)
  • 10 (U.S.)
    • George Michael singles chronology


    "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
    (with Elton John)
    (1991)    		"Too Funky"
    (1992)    		"Somebody to Love"
    (with Queen)
    (1992)
    Twenty Five track listing
    "Faith"
    (4)    		"Too Funky"
    (5)    		"Fastlove"
    (6)




    "Too Funky" was a song written and performed by George Michael and released by Epic Records in 1992.

    History

    Too Funky was George's final single for his recording contract with Sony Music before he started legal action to extricate himself from his contract. Too Funky had been initially earmarked for a follow-up to the album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 but George shelved the idea, instead donating it, along with three other songs, to the project Red Hot + Dance, which raised money for AIDS awareness. George subsequently donated the Too Funky royalties to the same cause. The song didn't appear on any George Michael studio album, although later it was included on his solo collection .

    Song Meaning

    The song was lyrically a basic, animalistic plea from George for sexual activity with an individual and musically it was the most upbeat record he had released since Faith almost five years previously.

    It featured a clip from The Graduate. Anne Bancroft's line of "Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you're trying to tell me?" was repeated during the final crescendo. The song then ended with a sample from the BBC sitcom Hancock's Half Hour, with the line "Will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!".

    Music Video

    The video featured George (sporadically) as a director filming a number of supermodels, similarly to the video for his 1990 single Freedom! '90. The supermodels featured in this video include Linda Evangelista, Tyra Banks, Beverly Peele, Nadja Auermann, Emma Sjöberg, and Estelle Hallyday.

    Chart performance

    Too Funky reached #4 in the UK singles chart in 1992 and became that year's most played record in Europe.

    In the U.S. the single debuted at #84 on Billboard Hot 100 reaching top 10 by its fourth week and had sold over 500,000 being certified Gold by the RIAA .

    B-Side

    It is also interesting to note that the B-side "Crazyman Dance" contains music originally used as part of the Diet Coke commercial released in early 1989.

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