“Sweet Emotion” is a song by the American rock band Aerosmith, released by Columbia Records in April 1975 on the album Toys in the Attic and was released as a single a month later on May 19. The song began a string of pop hits and large-scale mainstream success for the band that would continue for the remainder of the 1970s. The song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and bassist Tom Hamilton, produced by Jack Douglas and recorded at the Record Plant.
“Some sweat hog mama with a face like a gent
Said my get up and go must’ve got up and went
Well, I got good news: she’s a real good liar
‘Cause a backstage boogie set your pants on fire”
Many Aerosmith fans believe that Steven Tyler wrote all of the lyrics to the song about the tension and hatred between the band members and Joe Perry’s first wife. Tyler himself has said that only some of the lyrics were inspired by Perry’s wife. It was stated in Aerosmith’s tell-all autobiography Walk This Way and in an episode of Behind the Music that growing feuds between the band members’ wives may have helped lead to the band’s original lineup dissolving in the early 1980s.
The line “Can’t catch me / Cause the rabbit done died” is a reference to the rabbit test.
Listen to the iconic song here.
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