| Candy | |
| Cover: | Candy,Cameo.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Cameo |
| Album: | Word Up! |
| Genre: | |
| Length: |
|
| Label: | Atlanta Artists |
| Producer: | Larry Blackmon |
| Prev Title: | Word Up! |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | Back and Forth |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
"Candy" is a song by American funk band Cameo, released as the second single from their 1986 album Word Up!. The song features a solo by saxophonist Michael Brecker. "Honey", a reworked version with different lyrics was included on their next album, Machismo.
In America, "Candy" reached number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the R&B charts in early 1987, causing Aretha Franklin's "Jimmy Lee" to stop at #2.[1]
"Candy" also made the Top 10 on the US Dance charts and #27 in the United Kingdom in late 1986.
The music video, shot on film, was directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński. Set against a backdrop of Times Square and various neon signs, the video features a high level of video compositing, with multiple layers of the band members and dancers appearing on screen in varying sizes and depths of field at once.
The song has been sampled by various artists, including 2Pac ("All Bout U", featured on his album All Eyez on Me), Will Smith ("Candy", on his album Big Willie Style), and Mariah Carey ("Loverboy", on the soundtrack to the film Glitter); the latter song would reach #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001. The Black Eyed Peas sampled it for the song "Ba Bump" from their album Monkey Business. Tichina Arnold sampled the basis for her song "Sweet Love" off her album Soul Free. The song was also sampled by R&B singer Jacquees on his song "Come Thru" which features hip-hop artist Rich Homie Quan. It was also sampled by 8ball & MJG on "Just Like Candy" off their album The Album of the Year.
The song's lyrics "You're giving me a heart attack, It's the kind I like" were interpolated in the New Radicals song "Mother We Just Can't Get Enough" as "You're a heart attack, just the kind I like".