I Just Wanna Be Loved

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"I Just Wanna Be Loved"
Culture Club I Just Wanna Be Loved Single.jpg
Single by Culture Club
from the album Don't Mind If I Do
B-side "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" (Quivver mix)
Released19 October 1998 (1998-10-19)
Genre
Length4:32 (album version)
Label Virgin
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Richie Stevens
Culture Club singles chronology
"Gusto Blusto"
(1986)
"I Just Wanna Be Loved"
(1998)
"Your Kisses Are Charity"
(1999)
Music video
"I Just Wanna Be Loved" on YouTube

"I Just Wanna Be Loved" is the first single from English new wave band Culture Club's fifth album, Don't Mind If I Do (1999). The song was serviced to US radio in August 1998 to promote the band's reformation US tour and the live album and compilation VH1 Storytellers/Greatest Moments , but it failed to generate interest. The song was then released commercially in October 1998 and entered at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart during a week when the top five positions were all held by new entries for the first time. [1] The song also became a top-20 hit in Iceland and on the Eurochart Hot 100 while reaching the top 100 in Australia and Germany.

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Critical reception

The song received positive reviews from music critics. AllMusic editor Jose F. Promis noted its "light reggae influence" in his review of Don't Mind If I Do . [2] Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that "this fine new recording shows 'em in far better form than on their last two '80s-era albums." He remarked that "set to a shuffling pop-reggae groove somewhat similar to their classic hit "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "I Just Wanna Be Loved" tingles with warm yet worldly lyrics and a crazy-catchy chorus that you'll be humming for hours after one listen." He added that Boy George "is in peak vocal form, while band-mates Roy Hay, Jon Moss, and Mike Craig play with astonishingly sharp precision." [3] Sarah Davis from Dotmusic described it as "a lovers rock workout that evokes all the best memories of the Eighties", stating that George "is in fine voice". [4] Claudia Connell from News of the World commented, "Their original line-up, including Boy George, storms back with a brilliant pop song that should see the band return to the charts again after 12 years." [5]

Track listings

  1. "I Just Wanna Be Loved" – 3:52
  2. "I Just Wanna Be Loved" (Magic Man remix) – 4:50 (4:37 in Japan)
  3. "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" (Quivver mix) – 11:26 (11:23 in Japan)
  1. "I Just Wanna Be Loved" – 3:52
  2. "I Just Wanna Be Loved" (Magic Man remix) – 4:50

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United States11 August 1998 Virgin [17]
United Kingdom19 October 1998
  • CD
  • cassette
[18]
Japan21 October 1998CD [19]

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