Love Sex Magic (3:40)

“Love Sex Magic” is the second US single from Ciara’s third studio album, Fantasy Ride, and the lead single for the album elsewhere. The single was co-written by and features Justin Timberlake with production coming from new production group The Y’s. After receiving heavy airplay on US radio from February 20, 2009, it was made available for download in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US from March 17. It was released as a download in the UK and Europe on April 5, 2009.

Ciara and Timberlake performed the song on Saturday Night Live and Ciara went on to perform the song alone on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live. She also performed it in London in The Circus: Starring Britney Spears tour, as apart of her opening act set. The “Love Sex Magic” video has been nominated for Best Choreography in a Video, by the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

Since the single’s release, it has become Ciara’s biggest international hit to date, charting in the top ten in numerous countries worldwide, and peaking at number one in several countries including Taiwan, India, and Turkey.

Billboard.com editor Chris Williams gives the single a favorable review, saying:

“the pair definitely has chemistry, trading off heated vocals that add fire to an already spicy lyric: “I ain’t gonna stop you if you wanna crowd my neck/Talk sexy to me like that.” It has a subtle retro funk groove generates enough sparks of its own to entice the pop crowd onto the dancefloor.”