| Spanish Fly | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam |
| Cover: | lisalisasf.jpg |
| Released: | April 8, 1987 |
| Recorded: | September 1986–March 1987 |
| Genre: | Contemporary R&B, dance-pop, Latin freestyle |
| Length: | 42:43 |
| Label: | Columbia[1] |
| Producer: | Full Force |
| Prev Title: | Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | Straight to the Sky |
| Next Year: | 1989 |
Spanish Fly is an album by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, released in 1987.[2] The singles "Head to Toe" and "Lost in Emotion" both reached number one in the United States. The album peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200.[3] It has sold more than a million copies.[4]
The album was written and produced by Full Force.[5]
People wrote that Lisa has "a rich, versatile sound and the vocal strength to penetrate the album’s percussion-heavy arrangements."[6] The Globe and Mail thought that Lisa's "accounts of her various sex and dance urges are both funny and salacious."[7] The Los Angeles Times called the album "an urban contemporary kitchen sink—everything is in there, from dance to doo-wop to crackling funk to spicy salsa."[8] USA Today deemed Lisa "today's Ronnie Spector: a technically limited singer who succeeds by projecting a girlish attitude that's both vulnerable and indomitable."[9]
| Chart (1987) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| US Billboard 200[11] | 42 | |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[12] | 31 |