“Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak” by Macy Gray

Macy Gray's debut album, On How Life Is, arrived in 1999 on Epic and Clean Slate, and "Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak" comes with a title that does its own advertising. Andrew Slater produced it, as he did the whole record, and Dave Way both recorded and mixed it. The music came from bassist Dion Murdock and Jeremy Ruzumna, who also plays organ and Rhodes piano on the track, while Gray wrote the words, sings lead and stacks backing vocals with Dawn Beckman, Musiic Galloway and Sy Smith.

The guitar credits alone run four names deep, Jon Brion, Arik Marshall, DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight and Gabriel Moses, while Matt Chamberlain sits behind the drums, Lenny Castro adds percussion and Rami Jaffee chips in synthesizer. That's a deep bench for one song, and a whole lot of muscle lined up behind one singular voice.

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