Isn't She Lovely (track)
by Stevie Wonder
Year: 1976
From the album Songs In The Key Of Life (track #11)
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Isn't She Lovely appears on the following album(s) by Stevie Wonder:
- Songs In The Key Of Life (track #11) (this album) (1976)
- Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium (track #14) (compilation) (1982)
- At The Close Of A Century (track #45) (compilation) (1999)
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| ! | 4 days ago | Johnnyo | 45,671 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/07/2026 01:19 | emiro | 1,659 | 89/100 |
| ! | 09/22/2026 15:07 |  swed | 3,742 | 88/100 |
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AAL2014 TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/12/2022 13:24 | #281174
There is a lot to love about this song. The undeniable mood, the chord progression, the infectiously expressive vocal performance, and harmonica solos for the ages (seriously though, how many melodic variations can the man concoct?).
Isn’t She Lovely is more than just an amazing love song and one that is particularly iconic for the joy that comes with parenthood. It opens disc 2 of Songs.. in ways that represents regeneration and perhaps even reincarnation. After the ordeal of a verbal beat down the narrator finds himself in with Ordinary Pain closing the album’s first disc, the second disc opens with new life in a literal sense. The extraordinary pain he feels is gone, he’s uplifted by true love in the form of Aisha.
Pride, optimism, gratitude, and musical genius come together with great force on this track.
tgarritsen 03/10/2015 17:42 | #136510
Is there a better song that expresses the feeling of getting a child? My absolute favorite of the album.
A lot like the later “I Just Called to Say I Love You” this is so cheesy that it should come with a health warning.
I’m not a fan of Stevie’s slower track per se but this is top of my list of such songs. Not for me at all
Stevie knows how to write.
