“Borrowed Love” was the second single from The S.O.S. Band’s Sands of Time, which would be their last album with superproducer duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. Just like their 1984 single “Just The Way You Like It,” “Borrowed Love” is an intentional clone of their enduring 1983 hit “Just Be Good To Me.”

All three songs employ similar drum sounds, tempos, key signature, and even share the same lyrical theme. “Borrowed Love” has a particular distinction though. Where “Just Be Good To Me” and “Just The Way You Like It” were about being complicit with a non-monogamous relationship, “Borrowed Love” expresses remorse over those choices:

The pain of too much pleasure
Is all so clear to me after you go
Nothing but ache to fill my emptiness
What could make me think
That I could live on borrowed love?

Though this is the second soundalike single the group released (likely at the behest of the record label) since 1983, “Borrowed Love” still reached #14 on the R&B charts and #26 on the Dance charts.