In the book I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters and Their Craft, Joan Armatrading explained: "I was watching a group of men talking to each other, they were always laughing and jolly enough, grabbing at each other's shoulders and all that. All except for one guy among them. The one guy, when I looked in his eyes he was somewhere else. Something wasn't right. That's why I wrote 'Show Some Emotion.' I wanted to know what that was about, that deadness in his eyes. I wanted to know why he wasn't sharing that with his friends. And I wanted to send this message out there, too. Our emotions are our greatest gifts, why don't we show them?"
"Show Some Emotion" is the title track of Armatrading's fourth album, part of her upward rise in the late '70s and '80s as she became a top singer-songwriter in the UK. The album was produced by Glyn Johns, known for his work with The Rolling Stones.
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