People like to make fun of Lovin' You. These days it's mainly known as a super cheesy love song with a really high note during it. This is both unfair and missing what is likely the best story of the songs creation.
First of all, it's not just a high note. It's a whistle register note, the highest vocal range a human can reach. It's the kind of note you will never even come close to mimicking and is the reason everyone sounds dumb when they sing this song: no one else can hit those highs like Minnie. The purity of these descending trills tends to get lost when people think back on the song, but every time you hear it you can't help but shake your head in admiration.
Secondly, and I feel most importantly, the song was not originally written as a love song- or rather, it was a different kind of love song. Minnie first began singing the melody as a lullaby to help her daughter Maya (now a successful performer in her own right) fall asleep. While the lines have been changed in the final iteration to have a more specifically adult context, it's easy to see how a good deal of the lyrics could just as easily be from a mother to her child. I personally find the song infinitely more interesting and beautiful from this perspective.
Maya herself was in the studio when Minnie was recording the vocals for the track. In the final thirty seconds of the song, Minnie began to sing to her daughter, repeating her name to the melody. While it remains on the album this touching reminder of the song's history was axed by concerned producers for the single release, on some reports fearing listeners would confuse the name with a Mayan chant. An unfortunate choice and one which has relegated these origins to obscure footnote status.
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