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We all love music for the feelings it evokes within us but sometimes singers and songwriters get just a little too desperate with the baby, baby, please begging and pleading for somebody’s love and affection. We’ve put these 15 songs in that category, but hey, like the Temptations say, these singers right here simply “ain’t too proud to beg.”

 

On Bended Knee

Obviously you’re not really begging for someone to stay until you’re down on bended knee begging. At least that’s the bar Boyz II Men set with one of the best – and thirstiest – joints of the 90’s.

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Don’t Leave Me

“If you take your love away from me, I’ll go crazy. I’ll go insane.” Aside from begging this poor woman to stay forever, Blackstreet further shames her by telling her that if she does leave she’ll “take a center piece” of them and drive them crazy… how horribly thirsty.

Hot Boyz

On the 1999 hit “Hot Boyz” Missy Elliott’s thirst for a man with a Lexus Jeep is real. “Where you live, is it by yourself? Can I move with you, do you need some help?” I like hot boys with Platinum Visas as much as the next girl, but do you really have to move yourself into his house though?!

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Cry for You

No song spells out thirsty as accurately as Jodeci’s “Cry for You” does. Not only are they torn up about a girl whose only been gone an hour, they also go so far as to admit that they’ll do anything to get her back. Umm, thirsty much?

I’m Goin’ Down

In 1994, Mary J Blige covered the somewhat popular 70’s song “I’m Going Down.” But to make it her own, she changed the title slightly (I’m Goin’ Down”) and threw her own bit of thirst into it – inspired by her personal experiences with K-Ci perhaps?

Come Back to Me

On this 1989 hit, Janet somberly begs her lover to come back to her – telling him that she misses and loves him and has waited all her life to see his smile again. Then when the music stops and she begs him to come back some more: that’s the real thirst right there.

Cause I Love You

This song doesn’t get really desperate until the music cuts and he throws in that little extra bit of commentary about seeing a car in the girl’s driveway and knocking on her door, getting no answer, going to bed and waking up cry-y-y-ying about her – until he meets someone else, thank goodness.