Promiscuity in songs

[-0-] · 25-10-2013 05:01PM #1

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 · 25-10-2013 05:03PM

It's a disgrace Joe.

Amirani · 25-10-2013 05:05PM

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

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 25-10-2013 05:07PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:13PM

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

mattjack · 25-10-2013 05:16PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:22PM

Gee Bag wrote: »

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

Semenal?

Oregano_State · 25-10-2013 05:28PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:30PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:33PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:34PM

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

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

[-0-] · 25-10-2013 05:36PM

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.

[-0-] · 25-10-2013 05:36PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:37PM

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

Czarcasm · 25-10-2013 05:37PM

[-0-] wrote: »

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?

[-0-] · 25-10-2013 05:38PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:39PM

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

wendell borton · 25-10-2013 05:43PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:44PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:44PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:45PM

"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 · 25-10-2013 05:47PM

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 · 25-10-2013 05:48PM

*Deletes 99% of AC/DC songs

BabyGorilla · 25-10-2013 05:48PM

Im rich
...beeatch

FreshKnickers · 25-10-2013 05:50PM

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.