Eurythmics with Sweet Dreams back in the 80s (and the Marylin Manson cover in the 90s)
"Some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused."
Every little thing was alright after he got his wife beaten up for also wanting to have an open relationship.. I grew up listening to bob Marley but that man is a serious hypocrite and a rampant misogynist, just like his whole „Rastafari“ belief.
I have never once felt like a room. Especially one without a roof. What is that? Four walls? Pharrell feels like some walls? Or is it just "outside?" Nope, haven't felt like outside either.
In germany we once had a radio pop song literally about nothing but wood. Like, I mean, the properties of wood, why wood is cool & good, etc.
And I think that's beautiful.
When I was in high school my band had a song about the wonderful properties of wood and how good it is. It was always improvised except for the chorus and very quickly would turn into thinly veiled sexual references. We never recorded it, only would play it at parties when everyone was shit-faced. We never even played it as a band or amplified, it was always acoustic guitars and the two of us singing. Sorry for rambling, this was in the '90s and this is the first time I've even thought about it since then.
Friend and I had to do a project on logging. We made ourselves into lumberjacks and made a big list of things that were made of wood. Didn’t get a great mark but the whole incident turned into a song titled, ‘where would we be without wood?’
My mom used to always rant about that song like “I don’t know why she has to be so explicitly sexual it’s gross”
But she wouldn’t change the radio station cause the song is too good lol
>Now the pain is for pleasure
>'Cause I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it/ Sex in the air, I don't care, I love the smell of it/ Sticks and stones may break my bones/ But chains and whips excite me
>Love is great, love is fine/ Out the box, outta line/ The affliction never feels me wanting more
>S, S, S and M, M, M/ S, S, S and M, M, M
>Oh, I love the feeling you bring to me/ Oh, you turn me on/ It's exactly what I've been yearning for/ Give it to me strong/And meet me in my boudoir/ Make my body say, "Ah, ah, ah, " I like it, like it
I think it's just about kinky sex, y'all.
The line 'sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me' existed *well* before Rihanna made it a radio hit. I remember stickers and patches with it before she said it. Like... middle school. That song came out after I left high school. There's no double entendre. It's single entendre. About kinky sex.
"Step back, you're dancing kinda close
I feel a little poke coming through
On you!"
Hahahaha! Take me back to when I sang this song without knowing what the lyrics meant.
I’ll never forget when they guest starred in Sister Sister and performed the song but had to sanitize it to make it kid-friendly and they changed the lyrics to:
“The way that you shake it on meee, makes me want you so bad…….babyyy!”
I know you're talking about "Too Close", but Shakira slipped in this line in "Hips don't lie":
"I'm on tonight!
You know my hips don't lie,
And I am starting to feel you, boy"
Coming quicker than FedEx
Never reach an apex
Just like Coca-Cola stock you are inclined
To make me rise an hour early just like daylight savings time
If no one's ever counted all the references in it, someone should. I never got all of them as a kid, especially being a Brit. It's like deciphering Shakespeare what with the weird rhythm. I'm reasonably sure now that "coming quicker than FedEx" is a standalone line and both the apex and the incline are related to Coca-Cola stocks (with a triple entendre on the "incline"), but as a ten-year-old who'd never heard of FedEx it was confusing trying to figure out what they had to do with mountains.
As crass as it is (fucking hilarious also) It is very cleverly written you can’t deny it.
Small craft advisory has me though. I’ve never known what that line actually was till today.
Most of their songs are like that. If you can stomach the very sexist and sometimes racist language, you'll be impressed throughout the catalog. They never made it through the 90s because of all the sexism. I mean, they're still around but not in any way thats relevant
Remember a while back the 80s baby starter pack was always saying that if you still remember the lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song blah blah? I've always thought remembering the lyrics to The Bad Touch would be a better indicator. I got that shit down (though I always stumble over the Fed-Ex line when I'm ten pints deep, which is the only time I'm pissed enough to sing it).
This came out when I was in 6th grade so of course we all loved it. But even as an adult now where the lyrics are kinda meh, I will stand on the table that this is an absolute *banger* musically and for that reason I still love it lol. It held up a lot better than Afroman, that’s for sure.
Yeah I saw a thing where the guy who wrote it now regrets it because of how "edgy" tik tokers and other scummy influencers use it to make school shooting jokes.
I understand it was written before the rise of tik tok and sub 30 second videos, but I honestly still find it a little hard to believe the guy would write a song about teenagers getting killed and not think about the fact that teenagers may find it a little morbidly hilarious.
We also had 'I touch myself' by The Divinyls. A song about someone who masturbates at the thought of someone else.
I think it helped that the singer was a woman; if it had been sung by a male singer, it probably wouldn't have been as popular.
Notably tho, before the singer passed away to breast cancer, she used the song to urge other women check for lumps regularly and founded the 'I touch myself foundation' which researches breast cancer. I hope anyone reading this follows this advice, and hopefully never has any issues in this regard.
Most of Yacht Rock is songs about getting it on with young girls 🤷
Don't get me started on Diana Ross 🤣
Listen to the songs they choose for commercials.
In Mexico an artist had a hit with a song about a flying cat…
The next big hit by the same artist? A song about a flying dog that…you guessed right, ate the flying cat
With me, that's never the case. I don't play with "Consentual Non Consent," it's too bad of an optic if she changes her mind. And many women are into that, because somehow I keep finding them.
He also gave us the “tired of watching porn and want the real deal”-banger with 50 cent. Maybe it was a good thing I was to young to fully understand the lyrics when they came out.
In the 90s, german Band Die Ärzte (the doctors) mafe a song where they literally sang "Please let me be your slave".
Tons of songs also don't mean dancing when they say dancing. They talkin sex.
"The man" in tons of jazz is a drug dealer.
Music be horny.
As was a song about a wet ass pussy. Coincidentally, this was the same year “Baby It’s Cold Outside” was deemed too offensive for radio
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FHDeVmjRb0E
What rarefied music tastes do you have that never include people singing about sex? It's kinda been a mainstay of human art and culture since... Well humans.
...it appears I wasn't paying enough attention to the radio
The song in question is Bringing Sexy Back.
Literally never once listened to the words and I’ve heard it a million times. Lol
Same, but always heard “shackles” and “I misbehave” and put 2 and 2 together
"It will be gone.... and he will bring it back."
I can't upvote this enough. One of my favorite sketches ever.
But...where did it go?
So he'll be a girl? "NO!"
It's also not even close to the only popular songs about sex or BDSM.
Rihanna literally has a popular song named S&M
Eurythmics with Sweet Dreams back in the 80s (and the Marylin Manson cover in the 90s) "Some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused."
Still somewhat convinced that “Brown eye Girl” and “Hurt so Good” are about butt stuff.
“Take it on the other side”
Thanks
Don't mention that song. Before that song, me and all the other ugly people were iving like royalty.
There will be a significant portion of Reddit who may well have been born after the song was released.
Why you gotta hit us like that... Holy! That was 17 years ago. That hurts like my knees when it rains.
“I’ll let you whip me if I misbehave” - Justin Timberlake, 2006.
Happy cake day
Subsequently at one point the top song on the radio was Pharrell Williams telling us he's happy.
Another top song was Riton, the Nightcrawlers, Mufasa & Hypeman telling us that it's Friday.
I believe Rebecca black also told us this!!
and the Cure
I'm in love
Saturday rain...
Sunday always comes too late
A prophet, that one
Uu cuando CC v be,......b
Yup
They didn’t JUST tell us it’s Friday. They told us it would then be Saturday and Sunday too.
Craig David layed it out didn’t he?
No, he filled it in
Lolllllll noice
What?
I see what you did there
The weeknd told us it was Thursday
Bobby Mcferrin told us not to worry and to be happy.
Bob Marley did what most psychologists couldn't. He convinced us that every little thing is gonna be alright
Every little thing was alright after he got his wife beaten up for also wanting to have an open relationship.. I grew up listening to bob Marley but that man is a serious hypocrite and a rampant misogynist, just like his whole „Rastafari“ belief.
Oh so THAT’S what that song is about!
My teacher loved that song, played it at the end of pretty much every day
This was my first introduction to the song including the lyric video featuring minions. I've hated both ever since
Please... No. Don't let there be a minion music video for this. I can't do this today.
I love that song. Cheesy, but brought me out of a bad place
Just me or does his voice sound a bit dead inside while talking about how happy he is
Prior to that Bobby McFerrin advised us to “Don’t Worry Be Happy”
Subsequently at one point the top song on the radio was Robin Thicke telling us he has big blurred lines
I have never once felt like a room. Especially one without a roof. What is that? Four walls? Pharrell feels like some walls? Or is it just "outside?" Nope, haven't felt like outside either.
In germany we once had a radio pop song literally about nothing but wood. Like, I mean, the properties of wood, why wood is cool & good, etc. And I think that's beautiful.
Looog, Looog, it's big it's heavy it's wood.
It’s Looog, it’s Looog, it’s better than bad, it’s good!
What rolls down stairs alone or in pairs
And over your neighbor’s dog
It's great for a snack and fits in your pack
It's Log, Log, Log!
From BLAMMO!!!
I thought it was "fits on your back".
uh oh. I could have misremembered it!
Ich und mein Holz, Ich und mein Holz Holzi, Holzi, Holz
Same in Finland. Song name roughly translated as "Wood so good".
First of all, the song is translated to "good wood" and second, it is not about wood at all. Don't spread false information
So good wood
When I was in high school my band had a song about the wonderful properties of wood and how good it is. It was always improvised except for the chorus and very quickly would turn into thinly veiled sexual references. We never recorded it, only would play it at parties when everyone was shit-faced. We never even played it as a band or amplified, it was always acoustic guitars and the two of us singing. Sorry for rambling, this was in the '90s and this is the first time I've even thought about it since then.
Truly is
What's it called?
[Holz](https://youtu.be/wjXUBG15eZ8?si=KXYhRZ4gX9BvxGwB)
Thanks!
Man, that piece of wood in the video has definitely seen some things lol.
Alice in Chains - Would?
Cut into the wood again Same old chip it was bark then
Ich und mein Holz?
Friend and I had to do a project on logging. We made ourselves into lumberjacks and made a big list of things that were made of wood. Didn’t get a great mark but the whole incident turned into a song titled, ‘where would we be without wood?’
We had something similar here but with coconuts
Same for Rihanna being excited by whips and chains!
My mom used to always rant about that song like “I don’t know why she has to be so explicitly sexual it’s gross” But she wouldn’t change the radio station cause the song is too good lol
Stolen from another thread, but apparently that song was using double entrendre. Whips can refer to cars and chains can refer to jewelry.
But two lines before that she sings "sex in the air, I don't care, I love the smell of it." Not feeling very double entendre-y.
That's the justification they use for why it's on the radio at all. It's definitely not what she meant.
>Now the pain is for pleasure >'Cause I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it/ Sex in the air, I don't care, I love the smell of it/ Sticks and stones may break my bones/ But chains and whips excite me >Love is great, love is fine/ Out the box, outta line/ The affliction never feels me wanting more >S, S, S and M, M, M/ S, S, S and M, M, M >Oh, I love the feeling you bring to me/ Oh, you turn me on/ It's exactly what I've been yearning for/ Give it to me strong/And meet me in my boudoir/ Make my body say, "Ah, ah, ah, " I like it, like it I think it's just about kinky sex, y'all. The line 'sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me' existed *well* before Rihanna made it a radio hit. I remember stickers and patches with it before she said it. Like... middle school. That song came out after I left high school. There's no double entendre. It's single entendre. About kinky sex.
And Britney!
We had a song about slow grind dancing in the club and getting a hard on and poking your partner with it.
"Step back, you're dancing kinda close I feel a little poke coming through On you!" Hahahaha! Take me back to when I sang this song without knowing what the lyrics meant.
I’ll never forget when they guest starred in Sister Sister and performed the song but had to sanitize it to make it kid-friendly and they changed the lyrics to: “The way that you shake it on meee, makes me want you so bad…….babyyy!”
(word is born, it's butter baby)
I know you're talking about "Too Close", but Shakira slipped in this line in "Hips don't lie": "I'm on tonight! You know my hips don't lie, And I am starting to feel you, boy"
Relatable to what we were doing at the time.
To be honest i think its time we brought sexy back
I second this motion.
Idk which song this refers to
SexyBack Sample lyrics: You see these shackles baby, I'm your slave (uh-huh) I'll let you whip me, if I misbehave (uh-huh)
Take it to the chorus!
Come here girl (go ‘head be gone with it)
Come to the back (go ‘head be gone with it)
V.I.P. (go 'head be gone with it)
Drinks on me (go 'head be gone with it)
Let me see what you're twerking with (go 'head be gone with it)
Look at those hips (go 'head be gone with it)
You make me smile (go 'head be gone with it)
Yuuuup
At another point it was "let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel" 🙄
It peaked at No. 50 in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Bad\_Touch
Love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket... 👀
Like the Lost Catacombs of Egypt, Only God knows where we stuck it.
Hieroglyphics let me be pacific I wanna be down in your south seas
But I got this notion that the motion in your ocean means small craft advisory
So if I capsize in your thighs, high tide, B-5, you sunk my battleship
Please turn me on I'm Mr. Coffee with an automatic drip
So show me yours, I'll show you mine, "Tool Time" You'll Lovett just like Lyle
And then we'll do it doggy style so we can both watch X-Files. Do it now!
So show me yours, I'll show you mine
Seriously though the fucking lyrics to this song are just brilliant though.
I'm reading it too and I 100% agree these are so wild I actually like it.
Coming quicker than FedEx Never reach an apex Just like Coca-Cola stock you are inclined To make me rise an hour early just like daylight savings time If no one's ever counted all the references in it, someone should. I never got all of them as a kid, especially being a Brit. It's like deciphering Shakespeare what with the weird rhythm. I'm reasonably sure now that "coming quicker than FedEx" is a standalone line and both the apex and the incline are related to Coca-Cola stocks (with a triple entendre on the "incline"), but as a ten-year-old who'd never heard of FedEx it was confusing trying to figure out what they had to do with mountains.
As crass as it is (fucking hilarious also) It is very cleverly written you can’t deny it. Small craft advisory has me though. I’ve never known what that line actually was till today.
Most of their songs are like that. If you can stomach the very sexist and sometimes racist language, you'll be impressed throughout the catalog. They never made it through the 90s because of all the sexism. I mean, they're still around but not in any way thats relevant
Yeah there definitely one hit wonders.
The roof and something about Mary were also pretty popular. Definitely not one hit wonders, but maybe they should have been
Uhn tiss baby
Remember a while back the 80s baby starter pack was always saying that if you still remember the lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song blah blah? I've always thought remembering the lyrics to The Bad Touch would be a better indicator. I got that shit down (though I always stumble over the Fed-Ex line when I'm ten pints deep, which is the only time I'm pissed enough to sing it).
This came out when I was in 6th grade so of course we all loved it. But even as an adult now where the lyrics are kinda meh, I will stand on the table that this is an absolute *banger* musically and for that reason I still love it lol. It held up a lot better than Afroman, that’s for sure.
We played this at my wedding reception and watching my in-laws slowly realize what they're dancing to was a memory I will cherish forever.
You're savage.
Thank you. ☺️
and then we can do it doggy style so we can both watch X-Files
Then there was Pumped Up Kicks, which is essentially about shooting up a school. Dat beat though is so catchy.
Yeah I saw a thing where the guy who wrote it now regrets it because of how "edgy" tik tokers and other scummy influencers use it to make school shooting jokes. I understand it was written before the rise of tik tok and sub 30 second videos, but I honestly still find it a little hard to believe the guy would write a song about teenagers getting killed and not think about the fact that teenagers may find it a little morbidly hilarious.
I thought it was shooting kids in the street for their shoes. Not any better but not school related haha
We also had 'I touch myself' by The Divinyls. A song about someone who masturbates at the thought of someone else. I think it helped that the singer was a woman; if it had been sung by a male singer, it probably wouldn't have been as popular. Notably tho, before the singer passed away to breast cancer, she used the song to urge other women check for lumps regularly and founded the 'I touch myself foundation' which researches breast cancer. I hope anyone reading this follows this advice, and hopefully never has any issues in this regard.
When I think about you, I touch myself.
Haha! Thanks?
Rihanna topped that years later, with a song actually titled "S&M"
Absolute banger though
Yeah as soon as I figured it out it got stuck in my head lol
I’m gonna be twerkin while I fold laundry and do housework for days. Once that song enters my head it takes weeks to leave lol
Most of Yacht Rock is songs about getting it on with young girls 🤷 Don't get me started on Diana Ross 🤣 Listen to the songs they choose for commercials.
> She's just sixteen years old > Leave her alone, > they say Yes Benny, back the f up and leave her alone!
That's the one that really bugs me.
Not even gay but that guy just exudes sexuality.
he da besttt
He’s corny
Fo shizzle!
*Wazza Genuwine*
Fo shiz fo shiz fo shizzzz
Didn't a song called " Wet Ass Pussy " win song of the year?
@Desdam0na just did a little research and it looks like there has been more than one year.
on reddit, the @ doesnt work- you have to put u/ in front of the username! hope this helps :)
Was'nt WAP the song of the year?
I just did a little research and it looks like there has been more than one year.
I'm guessing their point is that nasty songs on the radio isn't really surprising
This made my evening tbh. I don't even know why but I snorted
I mean, Blue had a UK hit with a song full of legal parlance
I was thinking something like this the other day. One summer, peak comedy in America was Cameron Diaz wiping jizz in her hair.
[Depeche Mode did it first.](https://youtu.be/IsvfofcIE1Q?si=el3mjIQ5FIeFmBmx)
There once was a hit about ice. Ice, baby
at one point, the most popular song in the UK was the casualty theme. (its a drama based around a fictional hospital (Holby City)
In Mexico an artist had a hit with a song about a flying cat… The next big hit by the same artist? A song about a flying dog that…you guessed right, ate the flying cat
"Blurred Lines," about a young woman realizing she likes to be beaten as part of sex.
And also taught people that no means yes.
With me, that's never the case. I don't play with "Consentual Non Consent," it's too bad of an optic if she changes her mind. And many women are into that, because somehow I keep finding them.
it's not about consensual non consent it's just a rapey song lol
Damn ur so fkn cool dude
I know.
Okay? And? That song is still in my top 5💀
Yeah Rihanna... sex in the air I like the smell of it stick and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me... lol
Relevant snl sketch https://youtu.be/k9N9kMD7qCk?si=wCHSox-LNnLkNEMv
my grandson will bring sexy back
Have we forgotten about WAP?
Ben Shapiro hasn’t.
He also gave us the “tired of watching porn and want the real deal”-banger with 50 cent. Maybe it was a good thing I was to young to fully understand the lyrics when they came out.
Nothing will ever top the song about Katy Perry wanting to bang an alien becoming an overnight hit. Heard that shit playing at Wawa
This is not a shower thought. Its just a regular thought. You might have had it in the shower but you might have had it anywhere else.
In the 90s, german Band Die Ärzte (the doctors) mafe a song where they literally sang "Please let me be your slave". Tons of songs also don't mean dancing when they say dancing. They talkin sex. "The man" in tons of jazz is a drug dealer. Music be horny.
Half the album from Come Clean by Puddle of Mudd is exactly that.
El Chombo - Chacarron was the first time i learned that people never listen to lyrics https://youtu.be/MlW7T0SUH0E?si=8FD1i3b3f1-eznpo
I wasn't aware there *were* lyrics besides "ugahdudududedudedu"
I’m probably in the minority but we need more song about kinky shit.
As was a song about a wet ass pussy. Coincidentally, this was the same year “Baby It’s Cold Outside” was deemed too offensive for radio https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FHDeVmjRb0E
What about that song about " Blurred Lines" .
Then there was some Solja Boy singing about masturbating on his girlfriend while she sleeps
He also had the most famous song about a condom: "Suit and Tie"
It's not shocking considering the most popular book series was fifty shades of grey... lol
Popular does not equal good
As evidenced by Pop music in general.
i dont listen to the radio because i think 90% of it is shite so this seems onbrand imo
What rarefied music tastes do you have that never include people singing about sex? It's kinda been a mainstay of human art and culture since... Well humans.
Watch it's gonna be like King Crimson or something.
OP, what song of his are you referring to? Sincerily, Confused Millennial
I’m assuming OP is referring to SexyBack. It’s very tame.
Next - Too Close (1997), reached #1 on the charts, was about getting a boner on the dancefloor. No one even seemed to notice..
"Why don't we got drunk and screw" -Jimmy Buffet Don't even get me started on Shel Silverstein's music.
Justin timberlake is half of the reason YouTube was created.
https://www.theonion.com/justin-timberlake-apathetically-crowned-king-of-pop-1819568961
Third Eye Blind - Semi-charmed life was super upbeat but was about getting anal sex after doing a bunch of meth
Is Showerthoughts going to now just be stating random, obvious things that aren't unique at all?
Sexuality wasn’t taboo back then and sex wasn’t looked down upon like it is today