Promiscuity in songs

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I could have picked any song, many worse songs actually, but I picked this one because it just appeared on my news feed.

Anyway. I don't like promiscuity in music for several reasons. Firstly, let me say my reasons are not prudish or puritanical. This sort of music is basically along the lines of "lets talk about fucking all night long and put a beat behind it". It is pathetic.

Using this song as an example:

Doctor, doctor, need you back home in bed
Doctor, doctor, where you at?
Give me something
You got that kind of medicine that keeps me comin'

My body needs a hero
Make me come alive
Come on and turn me on
Touch me, save my life
Come on and turn me on

It's falsifying some sort of patient doctor scenario, while actually being about sex. It's a tautology.

Sex sells, and that's where my issue is. Music should not have to use sex to sell. Doing show simply highlights that the music is shit. The thought of 4 or 5 year old kids in their parents cars listening to this stuff is a bit sad too.

If this song comes on when your young son or daughter is in the car, will you explain to them that sex sells, it makes you money. What kind of message does that send?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

It's a disgrace Joe.

Amirani

I think it's a good thing. It's made it far easier to avoid **** music.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I always thought it was "gimme some head" and not "give me something". Awkward, making those kind of lyric mistakes while singing along

Gee Bag

Dexy's Midnight runners started this disgusting trend with their seminal hit 'Come on Eileen'

mattjack

Gee Bag wrote: »

Dexy's Midnight runners started this disgusting trend with their seminal hit 'Come on Eileen'

Oh I know what you mean , and that other disgusting tune "Hokey Cokey " , with its " in , out , shake it all about "

Gyalist

Gee Bag wrote: »

Dexy's Midnight runners started this disgusting trend with their seminal hit 'Come on Eileen'

Semenal?

Oregano_State

This is an important issue. I'm very angry and frustrated. I'm going to get everyone on the boards to rise up against this devilish carry-on. We shall be united in our disgust and morality. Buddy Holly/Elvis Presley/The Beatles/Led Zeppelin/George Michael/Tupac/Slim Shady/Nicki Minaj are corrupting our children.

Something must be done!

Blisterman

I like your strategy OP.

In order to stop people using sex to sell records we should all find sexually suggestive records and to watch and share the youtube video on a popular website such as boards.ie, thus increasing its youtube views, and enriching the artists.

The artists will then have a comfortable lifestyle and will no longer need to release suggestive records to make money. It's foolproof!

Tar.Aldarion

That song is about a scientist creating robotic life and should be admired for delving into the tough issues about whetheran android being "turned on" grants it rights. Heaving hitting stuff.

BabyGorilla

Heard this one on the radio and remember wondering....
...surely this isn't about facials ...is it ???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=serV18MirGg

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Blisterman wrote: »

I like your strategy OP.

In order to stop people using sex to sell records we should all find sexually suggestive records and to watch and share the youtube video on a popular website such as boards.ie, thus increasing its youtube views, and enriching the artists.

The artists will then have a comfortable lifestyle and will no longer need to release suggestive records to make money. It's foolproof!

In order to show my disdain for the song, it's necessary to show the song to others. Not doing so makes no sense. How can you possibly talk about something you don't like without showing that something to your audience?

That blister you speak of must be close to your prefrontal cortex. You might want to get that looked at.

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Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

That song is about a scientist creating robotic life and should be admired for delving into the tough issues about whetheran android being "turned on" grants it rights. Heaving hitting stuff.

That's the falsification of it. You've fallen for their trap. If you really think the song is not about sex you are deluded.

Daveysil15

You'll find a lot worse stuff than promiscuity in the gangsta rap.

Czarcasm

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If this song comes on when your young son or daughter is in the car, will you explain to them that sex sells, it makes you money. What kind of message does that send?

You wouldn't download a car, but if you sell enough shìte music, you can buy a whole fleet of them?

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Daveysil15 wrote: »

You'll find a lot worse stuff than promiscuity in the gangsta rap.

Agreed. I stated why I picked this particular song. I could have picked from hundreds of others which are worse.

stretchdoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT22Z3F6Z7Q

wendell borton

Could be worse I listened to Wagner it warped my impressionable mind, I now want to commit genocide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aKAH_t0aXA

BabyGorilla

Yo Yo Yo

Ill urinate on your territory and eat your food then ill mate with the few available females and beat my chest.

Menas

I think The Doors 'back door man' from 1967 was the first to really try to cross the line. Down with this sort of thing.

Maximus Alexander

"I'm in the club with my n*****s and my dawgs,
with some dope and some guns and
I'm f***in' with them 'ho's

Rollin' in them cars,
drinking Cristal at the bars,
doin' crack off her back
while she's f***in' with my bros."

Stick a beat behind that. Boom, top 10 hit.

Daveysil15

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

"I'm in the club with my n*****s and my dawgs,
with some dope and some guns and
I'm f***in' with them 'ho's

Rollin' in them cars,
drinking Cristal at the bars,
doin' crack off her back
while she's f***in' with my bros."

Stick a beat behind that. Boom, top 10 hit.

That's some good sh1t.

wandatowell

*Deletes 99% of AC/DC songs

BabyGorilla

Im rich
...beeatch

FreshKnickers

I wrote a song about the plight of the sapphire unicorn during the Unicorn Civil War. And another one from the perspective of a ham, cheese and onion sandwich that knows it's about to be eaten

They weren't very well received in professional circles. Apparently they were "difficult to relate to" and "people don't like songs they can't understand". So the folks who churn out popular music like to stick to safe topics, such as sex, money and starships.

I don't know, myself.

Daveysil15

These lads will go far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBo2J5CuL6U

BabyGorilla

Daveysil15 wrote: »

These lads will go far.

LOL - N3/M50 overpass, right beside Castleknock.

Yo check it. Theres a tennis club 2 minutes away....dawg.

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Daveysil15 wrote: »

These lads will go far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBo2J5CuL6U

This is classic! Makes the thread a worthwhile endeavour.

I am pie

Get over it squareballs, you need to get some satisfaction.

desertcircus

I don't even want to imagine what freakish menstrual fetish inspired Slayer to compose Raining Blood.

mikom

I love an ould romantic song..........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppOu3ogzL-M

DoesNotCompute

BabyGorilla wrote: »

Heard this one on the radio and remember wondering....
...surely this isn't about facials ...is it ???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=serV18MirGg

Yup, deffo about cumshots.

BabyGorilla

DoesNotCompute wrote: »

Yup, deffo about cumshots.

I knew it.
Women are such perverts. All they think about is jizz.

Daveysil15

Here's a great song about giving head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI53eWUz2Pk

Muise...

I know just how you feel OP,
Oh, I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece
While I sipped champagne on a yacht
I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo
And showed 'em what I've got
I've been undressed by kings
And I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see
I've been to paradise
But I've never been to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn7d7gZj_qc

*sigh

DazMarz

Some songs were so notorious that the PMRC (Parents' Music Resource Centre) placed them on a list called "The Filthy Fifteen". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filthy_Fifteen#Actions

The songs were:

Prince - 'Darling Nikki'
Sheena Easton - 'Sugar Walls'
Judas Priest - 'Eat Me Alive'
Vanity - 'Strap On Robbie Baby'
Motley Crue - 'Bastard'
AC/DC - 'Let Me Put My Love Into You'
Twisted Sister - 'We're Not Gonna Take It'
Madonna - 'Dress You Up'
W.A.S.P. - 'Animal (I Fúck Like A Beast)'
Def Leppard - 'High n Dry (Saturday Night)'
Mercyful Fate - 'Into The Coven'
Black Sabbath - 'Trashed'
Mary Jane Girls - 'Into My House'
Venom - 'Possessed'
Cyndi Lauper - 'She Bop'

Granted, not all of the above songs were about sex, but most were. Other songs I'd include:

AC/DC - 'You Shook Me All Night Long'

Accept - 'Love Child'/'Turn Me On'

Aerosmith - 'Rag Doll'/'Dude Looks Like A Lady'

Autograph - 'Night Teen And Non-Stop'

Billy Idol - 'Dancing With Myself'/'Flesh For Fantasy'

Billy Squier - 'The Stroke'

Bryan Adams - 'Summer Of 69'

BulletBoys - 'Smooth Up In Ya'/'Kissin' Kitty'

Cinderella - 'Shake Me'

The Darkness - 'Holding On My Own'

Def Leppard - 'Make Love Like A Man'

Green Day - 'Long View'

Guns N Roses - 'Rocket Queen'

King Kobra - 'Ready To Strike'/'Hunger'

L.A. Guns - 'Sex Action'/'Malaria'/'Sleazy Come Easy Go'

The Lost Boys - 'Affection'

Love/Hate - 'Slutsy Tipsy'

Motley Crue - 'Slice Of Your Pie'/'Same Ol Situation'/'Girls Girls Girls'/'Sticky Sweet'/'She Goes Down'/'All In The Name Of Rock N Roll'/'Hell On High Heels'/'Piece Of Your Action'/'Live Wire'/'Too Fast For Love'/'Use It Or Lose It'

Pale 3 - 'In My Head'

Poison - 'I Want Action'/'Talk Dirty To Me'/'Nothin But A Good Time'/'Fallen Angel'/'Livin For The Minute'/'Look What The Cat Dragged In'/'Want Some Need Some'/'Play Dirty'/'Good Love'/'Look But You Can't Touch'/'Bad To Be Good'

Riot - 'Hard Lovin Man'

Robert Palmer - 'Addicted To Love'

Scorpions - <sexual innuendo in every song they ever wrote>

and so on....

cml387

Years ago EMI brought out (another) compilation of Beatles songs called "The Beatles' Love Songs'

Someone wrote to the NME querying why they didn't include "Why don't we do it in the road" from the White album

Los Lobos

can't tell ya who sang it, it was all over the radio in the nineties, but the lyrics were

girl i'm gonna make you sweat,
sweat till you can't sweat no more,
and when you cry i'm, gonna push it,
push it, push it some more

when i finally copped onto the lyrics i was like jaysus!!

but i'm not great at listenin to lyrics, i only found out that ebeneezer goode song from the nineties was sayin e's are good after watchin some programme on channel 4 years ago, blew my mind!

seenitall

Driving down those city streets
Waiting to get down
Won't you take your big machine
Somewhere in this town?

Now in the parking lot garage
I found a proper place
Just follow all the written rules
You'll fit into the space

Pull up to my bumper, baby
In your long black limousine
Pull up to my bumper, baby
And drive it in between

Pull up to it, don't drive through it
Back it up twice, now that fits nice

Operate around the clock
Slow it if you come in?
I've got lots of space for everyone
One for you my friend?

My lines are short, I'll fix you up
So won't you please come on
Shiny sleek machine, you wheeled
I've got to blow your horn

Pull up to my bumper, baby
In your long black limousine
Just pull up to my bumper, baby
And drive it in between

Pull up to it and don't drive through it
Back it up twice, now that fits nice
Race it, straighten it, let me lubricate it
Pull up to my bumper

Grace Jones!!

UCDVet

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If this song comes on when your young son or daughter is in the car, will you explain to them that sex sells, it makes you money. What kind of message does that send?

I'm OUTRAGED that I might have to talk to my children and explain complex, real-world issues to them. As a parent, I think it should be illegal to expose children to the harsh realities of the world.

I won't turn on the news or tele around my children. I'm afraid to take them into Dublin anymore, our last trip to SuperMacs had us walking past some beggars/homeless people. Thankfully my kids didn't ask about them, but how am I supposed to explain social problems?

I sent my oldest child to school, but the other children weren't nearly so protected as mine. One kid *stole* a toy from another. My child asked me 'Why do people steal?!' That's not an easy question to answer! I sent my child to bed and withdrew her from school. Seriously though, how do you explain this stuff to children?!?

Even children's movies these days are including more and more 'adult' topics. Falling in love, marriage, jealousy, violence, greed....I used to read my daughter a 'Cinderella' book - until she started asking questions. 'Why are her step-sisters so mean?'

To be honest, even my own family makes it difficult. When we had our first son, my girls were curious about the whole 'penis' thing. I told them 'it is very dangerous and never touch it!' - but I think it just scared them. Plus, my Father smokes....and I told my kids never to do drugs....which was fine until they ASKED ME why 'Grandpa smokes'. How do I explain complex emotions like 'wanting to smoke' when it's obviously a drug addiction!?!

If I'd have known that my children would constantly come to me with questions about the less-than-perfect world we live in.....I would have used a condom!

// Yeah - joking aside, I'd explain it to my kids.

120_Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxaj-eDckoc

.jacksparrow.

Rude boy Rhianna has the dirtiest lyrics ever!

Clandestine

DazMarz wrote: »

Black Sabbath - 'Trashed'

What a tune. Born Again was great album, never got the reception it deserved.

Czarcasm

Geez, the clean version of this song is crap, but I can't link to the NSFW version because it's even too filthy for AH. Google will help you with that. Anyway -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y44XW3whxPM

TheBegotten

Dude, that'd suck.

Muise...

it's not dirty if it's in a foreign language!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA

actually, this one is my favourite by Serge. The lyrics are clean but that riff is filthy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GPm5_X3Ykg

ButtersSuki

You will struggle to beat The 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As they Wanna Be" album featuring bonafide rap classics such as Me So Horny, Put Her in The Buck, Cum On Babe, The F*** Shop and many many more. Soundtrack to my youth! :rolleyes:

donegal__road

Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'Relax' is 30 years old this year.

Shivers26

Sugababes - Easy

Diana Ross - Chain Reaction

When you actually listen to the lyrics .... filth

sok2005

Jill Scott - Crown Royal! The sexiest filthiest song in my opinion!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvMYyFY2Cwk

losthorizon

DazMarz wrote: »

Some songs were so notorious that the PMRC (Parents' Music Resource Centre) placed them on a list called "The Filthy Fifteen". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filthy_Fifteen#Actions

The songs were:

Prince - 'Darling Nikki'
Sheena Easton - 'Sugar Walls'
Judas Priest - 'Eat Me Alive'
Vanity - 'Strap On Robbie Baby'
Motley Crue - 'Bastard'
AC/DC - 'Let Me Put My Love Into You'
Twisted Sister - 'We're Not Gonna Take It'
Madonna - 'Dress You Up'
W.A.S.P. - 'Animal (I Fúck Like A Beast)'
Def Leppard - 'High n Dry (Saturday Night)'
Mercyful Fate - 'Into The Coven'
Black Sabbath - 'Trashed'
Mary Jane Girls - 'Into My House'
Venom - 'Possessed'
Cyndi Lauper - 'She Bop'

In fairness She Bop was about female masturbation. How could anyone complain about that? And they would really have to be listening hard to the record to understand that it was about that.

She Bop. He Bop, we Bop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFq4E9XTueY