Smut on the Radio

intim8

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I just watched a YouTube video of a 30-ish year old woman reacting to Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love, purportedly hearing it for the first time ever. When it finished, her eyes went wide and she stood up from her chair. "I gotta go talk to my husband for a minute, I'll be right back." Then she sat back down, "No wonder my mom had five kids."

If you haven't heard the song, it's basically Robert Plant having an orgasm.

It got me thinking about the media messages about sex I grew up with. Lot's of media was very suggestive, and my teen years were full of movies that were full of T&A. But at the same time, there was always this undercurrent of shame to it, as if it said, "we know you like this, but you shouldn't."

I wasn't raised in a conservative or religious home, but both parts of that message sunk in and really took. For a long time, I was ashamed to admit what I liked and wanted, and the girls I was with were in the same boat. Even when we were doing things, it was as if we couldn't admiit we were doing it, or liked it, or wanted to do it and like it, and we certainly couldn't talk about it. We both had to pretend like it was happening without intention, spontaneously, we couldn't help ourselves. Or maybe it was mostly just me.

The messages are different now, mostly because of the internet. But I still think both messages are getting through, just in a different way. What was shame in my day has transformed into defiant attitudes, but I think it is mostly the same root cause.

A lot of what I write here is working out those old ghosts, often in the form of having characters who are what I think properly adjusted about it.
 
The outrage "Elvis the Pelvis" caused started it all off, in music. It was way more explicit than anything before.

I just watched "Nashville", the 1975 movie, for the first time last night. It reminded me that the pretty relaxed attitude to sex in the 1970's wasn't just my rose-tinted memory.
 
I really enjoy all the creative metaphors and suggestive-- but not outright explicit-- lyrics in the older stuff.

Happiness is a warm gun, momma (bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
When I hold you in my arms (ooh, oh, yeah)
And I feel my finger on your trigger (ooh, oh,

I enjoy the creative workarounds to just straight up talking about her tight pussy or fat ass. They're more intimate.
 
I worked in radio in the late 70's. We had to cut "good god almighty' from Jimmy Buffet's 'Cheeseburger in Paradise' due to protests from a prominent local church. Then Cardi B comes out with WAP. Which brings to mind the question is is 'Wet Ass-Pussy', or 'Wet-Ass Pussy'??? Inquiring minds and all.
 
My wife didn't believe me when I told her Sledgehammer was a song about sex. Or Pull Up To My Bumper.
All songs are about sex. A close enough estimate, anyhow.

Reminds me of when my eldest started watching QI with us, and rapidly concluded that all adult comedy shows are just willy jokes dressed up in big words. Yup, see Act 1 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet...
 
My wife didn't believe me when I told her Sledgehammer was a song about sex. Or Pull Up To My Bumper.

Actually it's about the higher self. But yes, I can see how it can be interpreted as sex and in fact my first assumption was that it was (all that talk about fruit cage and honey bees).

You could have a steam train
If you'd just lay down your tracks
You could have an aeroplane flying
If you bring your blue sky back
All you do is call me
I'll be anything you need

It's expressing desire and calling upon the higher self to manifest that desire into your reality.

I wanna be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name?
Ah oh, let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony

This is the higher self wanting to deliver, wanting to empower you.

Ah, you'd better call the sledgehammer
Put your mind at rest

Put your mind at rest is literally resting your mind to open it, probably through meditation.

I'm gonna be the sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
Ah, I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it

Let there be no doubt about it is a huge key line here. It is about faith. Have no doubt, which relates to the new age law of attraction and manifestation stuff you hear about that asserts that you reality is created based on the beliefs that you hold. If this is true then believe what you want to be real, stop doubting and have faith and it will come true.

I get it right, I kicked the habit (kicked the habit, kicked the habit)
Shed my skin (shed my skin)
This is the new stuff (this is the new stuff)
I go dancing in (we go dancing in)

This is getting out of old limiting beliefs and practices and moving forth with new knowledge and confidence.

Oh, won't you show for me? (Show for me)
I will show for you (show for you)
Please, show for me (show for me)
Huh, I will show for you

This is again the higher self asking for you to show your desire so that it can create it in your reality for you.

Sledgehammer is the higher self with the power to do the heavy lifting. You just do the dreaming and believing, the sledgehammer (higher self) will pound it out for you. That is the message.
 
My wife didn't believe me when I told her Sledgehammer was a song about sex. Or Pull Up To My Bumper.
My wife hates that I told her that "Relax" (Frankie) is about anal sex. She used to love the song, now she can't listen to it.
 
Oh yeah. 70s songs. Plenty of sex, but it was often couched metaphorically. Although not THAT metaphorically. The meaning of "Gonna give you every inch of my love" is not that hard to see.

Rod Stewart, Tonight's the Night: "Spread your wings and let me come inside."

My favorite along these lines was Meri Wilson's "Telephone Man," the lyrics of which include:

Hey, baby, I'm your telephone man
You just show me where you want it
And I'll put it where I can
I can put it in the bedroom
I can put it in the hall
I can put it in the bathroom
I can hang it on the wall

You can have it with the buzz
You can have it with the ring
And if you really want it
You can have a ding-a-ling
Because-a hey baby
I'm your telephone man


Of course, now, youngsters don't even know what a telephone man IS.

By the time the 90s rolled around, we had Nine Inch Nails singing "I want to fuck you like an animal," and all subtlety was gone.
 
Yes. I mean, you don't think the Beatles just wanted to hold her hand, do you?
And Leonard Cohen was just worshiping the Lord. "Hallelujah..."

That one really cracks me up when it's played at churches and weddings.
 
My wife hates that I told her that "Relax" (Frankie) is about anal sex. She used to love the song, now she can't listen to it.

Isn't it just about pacing yourself so that you don't cum right away (regardless of hole)?
 
Then there's that old ZZ Top paean to camping:

'Slip inside my sleeping bag.'
 
Then there's that old ZZ Top paean to camping:

'Slip inside my sleeping bag.'

And she wants a Peral Necklace of course.

And Aerosmith's Big Ten Inch ... record of my favorite blues.

And Redd Kross "just give me a kiss on top of the monolith".

And Britney Spears "If You Seek Amy".

And Rhianna "Shut up and Drive".
 
And she wants a Peral Necklace of course.

And Aerosmith's Big Ten Inch ... record of my favorite blues.

And Redd Kross "just give me a kiss on top of the monolith".

And Britney Spears "If You Seek Amy".

And Rhianna "Shut up and Drive".
Chuck Berry - My Ding-a-ling

AC/DC - Big Balls

Melanie: "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you've got a brand new key." (Does anybody remember roller skates with keys?).
 
George Michael. "I Want Your Sex."

Seth McFarlane. "Intercourse With You."

Miranda Lambert. "Fastest Girl in Town."

Wilson Phillips. "Impulsive."

Roxette. "Joyride."

Heart. "Crazy on You."

Tim McGraw. "I Like It, I Love It."

Faith Hill. "This Kiss."

The list goes on.
 
Areosmith: "You ain't seen nuthin till you're down on the muffin."

Heart also had Magic Man, "Try to understand, he's a magic man, Mama ... He's got the magic hands".
 
Seeing the OP mentioned Zeppelin who I was never really into that much. My favorite song from them is South Bound Suarez is about a blow job, but I didn't catch that til I got a bit older.

Of course Cyndi Lauper's She bop caused a stir when people realized it was about masturbation.

It was fun back when they had to be more subtle about it. Now the average video looks like a softcore porn shoot.
 
More songs.

Melissa Etheridge. "I Wanna Come Over."

Kesha. "Your Love is my Drug."

Elvis. "I Want You I Need You I Love You" and a few other tunes.
 
I still get a kick out of the line from Deep Purple's Knocking at your back door. "So we put her on the hit list, of a common, cunning linguist. A master of many tongues.
 
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