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My Kinda Lover

"My Kinda Lover"
Single by Billy Squier
from the album Don't Say No
B-side"Christmas Is the Time to Say 'I Love You'"
ReleasedNovember 1981
GenreRock, hard rock
Length3:32
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Billy Squier
Producer(s)Reinhold Mack
Billy Squier
Billy Squier singles chronology
"In the Dark"
(1981) 		"My Kinda Lover"
(1981) 		"Emotions in Motion"
(1982)

"My Kinda Lover" is a rock song written and performed by American hard rock singer and guitarist Billy Squier.[1] It was the third and final single released from his Triple Platinum 1981 album Don't Say No,[1] following "In the Dark".[2]

Record World said that "While his band spanks, crunches and crashes, Billy seduces with a light. likeable tenor."[3]

It peaked at number 45 on the United States Billboard Hot 100,[4] and number 43 on the Cash Box Top 100 chart in early 1982. It also reached number 31 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[5]

Charts

Chart (1981/82) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[6] 64
US Billboard Hot 100[4] 45
US Cash Box Top 100[7] 43
US Billboard Rock Tracks[5] 31

Later uses

  • Rapper Eminem sampled "My Kinda Lover" on his 2014 song "Shady XV".[8]
  • The song was used in the Mötley Crüe biopic, The Dirt, when lead singer Vince Neil is performing it with a cover band at a party when Tommy, Mick, and Nikki arrive to recruit Neil into the band.

References

  1. ^ a b "Billy Squier: My Kinda Lover". allmusic. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (8th ed.). Billboard Books. p. 594. ISBN 0-8230-7499-4.
  3. ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. November 28, 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
  4. ^ a b Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  5. ^ a b "Billy Squier: Billboard Singles". AllMusic. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  6. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 289. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  7. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, January 23, 1982". Archived from the original on June 3, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  8. ^ "My Kinda Lover by Billy Squier". Who Sampled. Retrieved June 10, 2018.


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