(I Wanna Give You) Devotion

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"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion"
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Single by Nomad featuring MC Mikee Freedom
from the album Changing Cabins
Released1990
Recorded1990
Genre Hip house
Length
  • 4:09
  • 6:46
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Damon Rochefort
Nomadsingles chronology
"The Raggamuffin Number"
(1990)		"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion"
(1990)		"Just a Groove"
(1991)
Music video
"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" on YouTube

"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" is a song by English electronic group Nomad, released in 1990 (UK/Europe) and 1991 (US) by Rumour/EMI and Capitol. It was the second single from their only album, Changing Cabins, released later in 1991. It was written by the producer, Damon Rochefort, with Steve Mac and MC Mikee Freedom. The song was a number-one hit in Greece and a top 5 hit in the UK, where it reached number two. In the US, it peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in June 1991 and stayed there for one week. [1] Its music video was directed by Jerome Redfarn. MTV Dance ranked the song number 32 in their list of "The 100 Biggest 90s Dance Anthems of All Time" in November 2011. [2]

Contents

Background and release

The track was produced by Damon Rochefort, who also shares writing credits with fellow Nomad member Steve McCutcheon and rapper MC Mikee Freedom. It also quotes from the earlier club hit "Devotion" by Ten City. Although Freedom and singer Sharon Dee Clarke were the featured artists on this track when it was released in the United Kingdom and other territories (even though Freedom was the only one to get his name credited), they were listed as uncredited in the US single version up until the act's full-length CD, Changing Cabins, was released Stateside in the autumn of 1991.

The song is notable for being the first song that Steve Mac ever wrote. [3] When asked about the track and its success in an April 2010 interview, Mac said:

It was a real accident. I just remember struggling to get the drums right - I didn’t really know how to work the sequencer properly. I didn’t have that much knowledge of what I was doing, and I think if I had then it wouldn’t have been as good a track. I love the naiveté of what I was doing back then, and I miss that a little bit now. [3]

In addition to the rap version, there is also a Soul Mix version that features Clarke's vocal performance without the rap. Both versions along with the Italo house version are included on the Changing Cabins CD.

Chart performance

"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" was very successful on the charts in Europe, peaking at number-one in Greece. [4] In the UK, it reached number two in its seventh week at the UK Singles Chart, on February 17, 1991. [5] It was held off the top spot by The Simpsons' "Do the Bartman". But on the UK Dance Singles Chart, it hit number one [6] as well as on the Record Mirror Club Chart. [7] The song entered the top 10 also in Austria (10), Belgium (8), Ireland (10), Luxembourg (2), the Netherlands (5), Spain (5) and Switzerland (6), as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100, where it peaked at number six in March 1991. [8] Additionally, the song was a top-20 hit in Germany (13) and Sweden (11).

Outside Europe, it peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the US, number three on the RPM Dance/Urban chart in Canada and number 37 in Australia.

"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" earned a silver record in the UK, with a sale of 200,000 singles.

Critical reception

AllMusic editor Stewart Mason named the song a "terrific dance club staple", complimenting singer Sharon Dee Clarke's "soulful, expressive voice", and writer/programmer Damon Rochefort, that gives the whole thing a "perky, bouncy feel". [9] David Taylor-Wilson from Bay Area Reporter felt it's "extremely enticing", praising Clarke's vocals as "superb". [10] American magazine Billboard stated that the song had recently topped dance charts "thanks to Sharon Dee Clark's belting vocals and Damon Rochefort's savvy beat and melody construction." [11] Billboard editor Larry Flick complimented its "contagious melody, a slammin' groove, and a well-timed trade-off between rapid male rapping and diva-styled femme singing." [12] Zane from Melody Maker stated, "The song's irritatingly catchy sax samples and the ubiquitous female soul vocals made it a deserved, if obvious, Top Five hit." [13]

James Hamilton from Music Week's RM Dance Update deemed it a "catchily honking political lurcher". [14] Phil Cheeseman from Record Mirror wrote, "If you went out clubbing on New Year's Eve, one record you'll almost certainly have heard is Nomad's 'Devotion'. Its crowd chants, stabbing saxophone, lazy strings and catchy chorus conspired to make it the Christmas period's most guaranteed floor filler." [15] In an retrospective review, Pop Rescue remarked that it's "a great example of early 1990s chart rap – somewhat slower and devoid of the sexual violence that you'd expect in most rap now." [16] Johnny Dee from Smash Hits declared the track as "utterlly brill". [17] Bob Mack from Spin viewed it as a "great" dance cut and almost a "real song". [18]

Music video

The accompanying music video for "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" was directed by Jerome Redfarn. [19] It features both MC Mikee Freedom and Sharon Dee Clarke, and have them dressed in body paint while they are performing the song at a rave concert. The video received heavy rotation on MTV Europe. [20]

Impact and legacy

MTV Dance ranked "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" number 32 in their list of "The 100 Biggest 90s Dance Anthems of All Time" in November 2011. [21] PopMatters included it in their list of "15 Landmark Dance Tracks of 1991" in 2020. [22]

Track listings

  1. "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" – 6:42
  2. "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" (Instrumental Mix) – 6:42
  3. "Sang - Froid" – 3:32
  1. "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" (7" Mix) – 4:09
  2. "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" (Original Mix) – 6:46
  3. "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" (Instrumental) – 6:37
  4. "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" (Soul Mix) – 5:00
  5. "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" (The Joey Negro Mix) – 6:48
  6. "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" (Rock Shock Mix) – 6:39
  7. "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" (Trouble's Club Mix) – 6:41
  8. "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" (Trouble's Underground Club Mix) – 6:37

Charts and certifications

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