Blog Feature: Sexy Song of the Week

Posted by on August 26, 2008 
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Attention super students of Human Sexuality and Culture: Rachel Harvey (one of your TAs) here. As a feature on our class blog, each week we will post about the life and times of some very sexy songs. Let’s face it, R&B, rock & roll, hip-hop, jazz—there’s sex in all of it. You cannot deny the innuendo in the heavy drum lines of popular artists from Led Zeppelin to Britney Spears to Prince, not to mention the lyrics, the choreography, the album art, and on and on.

We invite your responses and participation. Each post will offer information on the song, artist, and historical time period as well as some questions for discussion. We will endeavor to touch on as many decades and genres as possible. Over the course of the semester we look forward to exciting debates on why music is so evocative. Why is sexuality such a common theme in so many genres of music? When does music carry the sexual metaphor too far and when it is just for fun?

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20 Responses to “Blog Feature: Sexy Song of the Week”

  1. emerson on August 27th, 2008 2:10 pm

    suguestions:

    sexx laws, beck, from midnight vultures

    light my fire, the doors, from the doors, or any random comp. album

    or, of course, like a virgin, madonna

  2. Sana on August 27th, 2008 4:25 pm

    I’d suggest some of the following:
    Closer – NIN (…says a lot)
    The Bad Touch – Bloodhound Gang
    Makin’ Love is Good for You – B.B. King
    Relax – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
    Butterfly – Jason Mraz

  3. Tushar Gupta on August 27th, 2008 4:26 pm

    check out honkey tonk badonkadonk by trace adkins

  4. Heidi on August 27th, 2008 5:34 pm

    Suggestion:

    The song D’Yer Mak’er by Led Zeppelin is an extremely sexual song from the lyrics to the tempo of the song itself.

  5. Emily on August 27th, 2008 6:42 pm

    I’d personally like you to use “I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry. I think that song’s popularity says a lot about our current feelings about homosexuality and what’s acceptable to play on the radio (over and over and over again).

  6. Megan on August 27th, 2008 8:24 pm

    Also, Lets Talk About Sex by Salt and Pepa

  7. Stephen on August 27th, 2008 8:56 pm

    As I’m not familiar with most of those songs, I’ll vote for the ones I recognize and think would be good (I kissed a girl by Katy Perry). However, I will vote against “The Bad Touch” by the Bloodhound Gang.

  8. Bradley on August 27th, 2008 9:12 pm

    As zepplins already been mentioned
    I can’t leave without putting out
    What I think is one of there sexiest songs “whole lotta love” from the suggestive lyrics of “I wanna be your back door man” to the almost orgasmic swell the song has half way threw is just down right
    Fornication.

  9. Heidi on August 28th, 2008 8:57 am

    Bradley, I could not agree more. Led Zeppelin has definitely mastered the art of insinuating sex through their songs.

  10. tim on August 28th, 2008 10:39 am

    Make Sex by Andrew WK

  11. emerson on August 28th, 2008 11:56 am

    I totally vote “closer.”

  12. Neel on August 28th, 2008 12:00 pm

    Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel

    That song is full of numerous sexual innuendos, such as “Open up your fruit cage, where the fruit is sweet as can be”

    Although some of the other ones are subtle, they are quite obvious if you realize they are about sex.

  13. Lisely Laboy on August 29th, 2008 6:29 am

    Anything by British artist IAMX who has songs like “Kiss & Swallow” and “You Stick It In Me” but “Missile” has the most sexual video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu_7kcGDQpE

    Another British band are electro girls Robots In Disguise whose video for “The Sex Has Made Me Stupid” is hilarious Robot porn:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoqThhEAzN0

    Also, “Insatiable” by Aussie artist Darren Hayes has a pretty tame video but the lyrics are beyond sexual:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZiQdM7ih5Q

  14. MaryBeth Berry on August 30th, 2008 5:55 pm

    “Your Body is a Wonderland” by John Mayer would be my suggestion for a sexy song. It never says the word “sex”, which I think makes it all the more sexual.

  15. Zeus on September 3rd, 2008 9:45 am

    I Kissed a Girl: Katy Perry

  16. V on September 3rd, 2008 10:34 am

    Lola by The Kinks…maybe we can finally come to a consensus about whether Lola is really a woman..or a cross dressing man.

  17. stephanie on September 3rd, 2008 4:15 pm

    animals by nickelback
    the intensity and beat of this song portrays sex as exhilirating, it also says that we are just a couple of animals..so if animals do why not

  18. T on September 4th, 2008 2:03 am

    “Lets talk about sex”-Salt N Pepa

    “sexual healing”- Marvin Gaye

  19. Sigrun Ahlquist on September 4th, 2008 8:38 pm

    “The Bitch of Living” from the musical Spring Awakening (based on a play about teenage sexual self-discovery)

  20. Laurel on October 3rd, 2008 6:47 pm

    I just have a suggestion for the sexy song for the week, I think it should be “Trading Places” by Usher (Raymond).