Church said to Spin magazine of this vintage-soul sex jam: "I've always hated where we get cute with subjects like that. Innuendo. I'm of the old school, the Al Green, that age of, 'We're talkin' about sex.' Just come out and say it."
Jam! Music asked Church if he damned Miley Cyrus for releasing a similarly titled song after he'd recorded his own wrecking ball tune. He replied: "I hadn't heard the Miley Cyrus song, honestly I don't listen to that world a whole lot. But as somebody said something about it and I just looked at them blankly, and I guess at the time it was like the biggest song in the world and I was like, 'I don't think I know the song.' Then they played it and I was like, 'Well, it's different.'"
Cyrus wasn't the first person to use the heavy steel ball that demolishes large buildings as a metaphor for destruction. Other artists that have sung of a wrecking ball include: Aubrey O'Day, Bruce Springsteen, Five Finger Death Punch, Harvey Danger, Jack's Mannequin and Lifehouse.
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