1980Released
4:13

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Rock and roll is filled with songs about cold, heartless women - "Cold As Ice" by Foreigner and "Stone Cold" by Rainbow, for example. Mick Jagger decided the Rolling Stones should have one of their own, so he and Keith Richards came up with "She's So Cold." Jagger wrote the lyric in about an hour, going way over the top, as he was wont to do for entertainment value. The girl is cold, but he's so hot for her. He's the burning bush... the burning fire... the bleeding volcano! On the other hand, she's so cold that when he touches her, his hand freezes. At the end of the song, Jagger reminds her that her beauty will fade and there will come a day when she'll be not just cold, but alone.

The American rocker Willie Nile released a song with a similar sentiment called "She's So Cold" in 1980 before The Stones issued theirs. Nile had been performing the song since 1978, and Mick Jagger was aware of it. A reporter for the British magazine The Face had the brio to ask him outright if he stole the song from Nile. Jagger replied: "I know Willie Nile, he's a right little stirrer. He's a sort of Latin kind of singer — no it's not true, he'd be suing me if it was." In a Songfacts interview with Nile, he explained what happened when The Rolling Stones' song was released. "I wake up, my phone is ringing off the hook," he said. "DJs calling, what's my reaction to the Stones having a song called 'She's So Cold' that sounds similar to my song 'She's So Cold'?" Nile was approached about filing a lawsuit, but never considered it. "No way am I going to be in that category of suing the Stones. Forget it! I loved the Stones. If it influenced their song, fine."

The first single from the Emotional Rescue album was the title track, which Mick Jagger sings in falsetto over a groove with disco elements. It did well on the charts, but many fans were hungry for a swarthy rocker, which they delivered with the second single, "She's So Cold." Instead of touring for the album per custom, they decided to break the album-tour-album-tour cycle by starting right away on their next album, Tattoo You, then launching a tour after that was released in 1981. Unlike "Emotional Rescue," "She's So Cold" was in the setlist for that tour and became one of the most enduring Rolling Stones songs, with a place on Classic Rock playlists for many years.

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Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of She's So Cold - Remastered.
CKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
140BPM

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Polydor Records
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