The quintessential 00's slow jam, "Rock the Boat" enjoyed a somewhat inflated profile at the time of its release, due to Aaliyah's untimely death on a return trip from filming the song's video, and has since been relegated to the occasional spin on lite-soul radio.
Admittedly, after preparing to write about the 80's, where there were several standout electro-funk jams of this ilk every year, "Rock the Boat"'s status has been somewhat diminished in our minds as well.
But there was something about the incessant urgency of the vocal hook, literally repeated for four straight minutes, and the truly creamy, dream-like sound of the heavily phased guitars that made it feel more monumentally sexy than it deserved to be.
File under maximum make out music.
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