What are the most sexually explicit songs to make onto mainstream pop radio?

Maybe with a focus on the censorious 80s & 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y8w2W1uy2A

"I Want Your Sex" wasn't a huge it, mainly because it wasn't a very good song I guess, but I'm still surprised it got played.

"I Touch Myself" was shocking. It was turned off immediately if it came on during the car ride to school.

I had no idea, at the time, what Frankie was talking about in "Relax". Come where?

"Let's Get Physical" I thought was an ode to fitness.

"Push It". I have no idea what I made of that as a kid. But I was down with pushin' it! Guess I thought it was a dance move?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob9e-o_s7Gg

he had pictures of naked ladies

lol

When did WASP get played on mainstream pop radio?

My answer for this is "Sugar Walls"

I did know what a centerfold was. Given my church-going, evangelical upbringing, I found the J Geils song offensive and would change it myself.

Yes, I think "Sugar Walls" is the winner. My half-sister explained that one to me and a friend. I'm still not sure we got it.

"You make a dead man cum"

did that line get censored?

"I didn't get laid . . ." in "Kiss Me Deadly" -- don't think I'd ever heard the phrase before that on radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPOTtiH_Jt0

It's the 2000s but 50 Cent's Candy Shop offered to let you lick the lollipop

Girl I want to make you sweat
Sweat till you can't sweat no more
And if you cry out
I'm gonna push it
Push it, push it some more

Not just explicit but downright rapey.

That stones line, not only was it not censored, I heard it on the recent TOTP repeat. Admittedly on the fade, but still clear enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXsXVFm0SE

https://youtu.be/loKdKr1dukk

omg salthigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJu7r6OUvk

I guess "Miracles" doesn't count, since the "I got a taste of the real world when I went down on you" verse was cut from the single version.

Silk - Freak Me

oh, the inspiration for this thread was a misheard lyric. At a bar, playing in the background, was a song with a female vocalist and the chorus "if I was you, I'd want up in me too, I'd want up in me too, I'd want up in me... too", which I thought was outrageously lascivious, so. I Googled those words to discover that what I was hearing was Meghan Trainor's "Me Too" and the lyrics were in fact "I'd want to be me, too". Surely whoever wrote this song knew exactly what s/he was doing.

I think about this all the time and it's probably Petey Pablo's "Freak A Leek"

I need a girl I could freak wit'
And want to try shit? and ain't scared of a big dick m
And love to get get her pussy licked, by another bitch
Cause I ain't drunk enough to do that shit

DO YA WANT IT IN YOUR PUSSY DO YA WANT IT IN YOUR ASS

The Whisper Song by the Ying Yang Twins managed to sneak a lot past the censors simply because people couldn't hear what they were saying

That "Lick my neck my back, lick my pussy and then my crack" song.

you mean the one I just posted?

This really died off after the 00s, didn't it? I guess the novelty of hearing dirty songs on the radio wore off.

x-post ha, sorry, youtube links don't work on my iphone

Save It For Later?

Baby Got Back?

Shameka, Keisha, Tara, Shonda, Sabrina, Crysta, Daronda, Theresa, Felicia, Tenisha, Sha'von, Monica, Monique, Christina

self-rejected the thread idea of songs listing girl names after i realised i couldnt be bothered to think past freekaleek and she's got that vibe

Vaguely recall listening to a 2 live crew dirty mix on vinyl

In the early 90s

self-rejected the thread idea of songs listing girl names after i realised i couldnt be bothered to think past freekaleek and she's got that vibe

Freek-a-Leek vs Song for Whoever

Aw, skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet

And that was the radio edit.

Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop" or The Divinyls' "I Touch Myself"

Ahem *Mambo #5*

xp

how far back do we go? most of the stuff out there when i was young is nothing compared to the double-entendre blues of the 30s and 40s. no idea how much, if any, airplay songs like "dirty mother for ya" or, you know, "good golly miss molly" got.

Rough Trade's "High School Confidential" hit #12 and got a lot of airplay here in Canada (and still does). "Crimes of Passion" was also a top 20 hit.

I didn't think most of those raunchy pre-rock blues songs were getting much mainstream airplay as opposed to things like these, though? xp

"Milkshake" should be right up there, even if I didn't get it at the time (in fact, I'm not sure I get it now...but I'm told it's quite explicit!)

"My Ding-A-Ling" has to count for something...

If we're talking explicit, I'm not sure that many of these could beat something like "My Neck My Back" (assuming that got mainstream pop airplay; it didn't on stations I was exposed to).

I didn't think most of those raunchy pre-rock blues songs were getting much mainstream airplay as opposed to things like these, though? xp

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r)

I guess that brings up the question of what qualifies as "mainstream" in a segregationist era. Truthfully I don't really know what "black radio" would have sounded like pre-rock, though a Chicago radio station premiered an hour of programming targeted towards black audiences as early as 1929.

the original lyrics to Tutti Frutti were "Tutti frutti/good booty"

the original lyrics to Great Balls of Fire were

If we're going to include songs that had their lyrics altered to become radio friendly, then the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" (originally "Black Pussy" fits). Actually, "Cocksucker Blues" was intended to be a single, but was never played on any commercial station in the Western world

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ko2VXpW7_g&feature=player_embedded
not really relevant but wth

This made it into the Hot 100 in '97

Bumpin and grindin simultaneously grindin
Climbin up the walls, with my balls, bangin off your hymen
I'm a diamond in the rough, bustin in your face
Taste the sweetness of my dick, rip your fetus out of place

Hot 100 in '03

We some Southside pimps
And we ain't giving a fuck
Poke your girl up in the throat
And make her swallow the nut

I made a mixtape when I was 10 and would start talking loudly to my mom before Humpty came on to rap "here a hump, there a hump, everywhere a humpty hump" on "All Around The World". But a few months later he was rapping "I'm being sincere / cause in a 69 my humpty nose will tickle your rear" which is kind of filthy as well as explicit

Funny to think Digital Underground were basically considered kid rap then

I recall recognizing, as a tween, the upsurge in sexual content jams throughout 1991. "Let's Talk About Sex," "I'm Too Sexy, "I Touch Myself," "I Wanna Sex You Up," "Me So Horny." I heard "humpty" as a funny word more than something sexual, so "Humpty Dance" didn't sound especially dirty. The censored version used dog barks and screaming-noises over "in a 69 my humpty nose will tickle your rear."

xpost What did she think of "Gutfest '89"

Next "Too Close" was pretty unavoidable.

dear God, just now realized the double meaning of "you're making it hard for me".

i never really listened to the lyrics that closely to that song

In the vein of that early 90s boom def add LaTour's "People Are Still Having Sex" which I def remember my grandma being o_O over

https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/8/8a/Funky-See%2C_Funky_Do.png/250px-Funky-See%2C_Funky_Do.png

The 1989-1997 fuck-pop boom also coincided with like Madonna's 'Sex' book and 'Erotica' and the whole post-2 Live Crew crop of BWP/Bust Down etc

I almost wonder if it was like the limitations of being after both the Summer of Love and the AIDS Crisis, like we can all TALK ABOUT SEX because it's so complicated to actually have it these days

Like moving sex back to the realm of pre-Sixties fantasy but with the post-Seventies horniness?

And then by the 2000s the talk was so normalized it just became background noise and no one really notices when Pharrell says his million dollar boat is "whiter than what's sliding down your throat" in the number one song in the country

Or Macklemore buying a skeet blanket

"(You Look Better With) Something In Your Mouth" - Nickelback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nieNQNUoS1o

oochie wally, even by the relaxed standards of the 2000s, had to be some sort of a high-water-mark.

Don't know about the rest of Latinamerica but here in Mexico they never censor anything. Songs like Akon - I wanna fuck you and Enrique Iglesias - tonight I'm fucking you got regular airplay in their original form not the clean version where they change fuck for love/loving.

It wouldn't make sense for them to censor songs in english when reggaeton artists like maluma, j balvin and daddy yankee per example are huge and their lyrics are even more sexually explicit than many songs in this thread.

I mean I don't like censorship but come on this lyrics got airplay. Doesn't anybody think of the children?

"Chupop remix" - Zion y Lennox Ft. Lui-G 21+, J Álvarez, Ñengo Flow, Ñejo y Franco

"Desde que la besé, rápido lo supuse,
Si así besa, cómo sería que me lo chupe,
Lo supe, me lo coge y me lo escupe,
Tiene una competencia con su prima Lupe..."

"Y al apartamento vamos a romper y te daré,
En el piso, en la sala, en el baño mojada,
Encharcada, su carita me incitaba,
Mucho me duró, eso fue un maratón..."

"Dónde quieres que te la eche, ¿en la boca o en los senos?
Me la chupa mientras quemo, le gusta mi lenguaje obsceno,
Ella no es tan putona, dice que es senda bellaca
Pero conmigo na’ mas..."

.En la Cama" - Nicky Jam Ft. Daddy Yankee

"Dime en la cama todo lo que quieres,
Yo me meto contigo donde sea,
No me importa la misión que me tire,
Quiero verte sudando como quiera..."

"A ella le gusta que le den duro y se la coman..."

"Yo quiero la combi completa,
¡Qué!
Chocha, culo, teta..."

This one was so popular even my very Catholic grandmother dances and sings to it.

‘Como yo le doy’ – Pitbull Feat. Don Miguelo

“Who the hell is this?
Texting me at 3:46
It must be a trick
And if she texting me at this time
She's looking for a Richard
Or should I say Dick..”

“Casi siempre me llama a las 3 de la mañana
Dice que soy su pana
El que te quita las ganas
Hemos hecho de to'
Muchas posiciones en la escalera
Amarrao en la cama
Yo encima de ella
Amanecimos en la bañera
Y me la comí embarra’ de nutella…”

This one also got regular airplay this year and really, this is just way too filthy I guess they don't give a fuck anymore in latinamerica:

‘La Ocasión’ - De La Ghetto, Arcangel, Ozuna

“Que lo tengo grande, y que bien rico chicho
Y dale métele, sólo por capricho sométele, motívate
Agárralo con tu mano y verás que es algo sano
Dale pa' alante y pa' tras y súbete en el palo
Ven lúcete, no me hagas perder el tiempo
Dale ven que me siento contento, este bicho parece cemento…”

“Hija 'e Lucifer, por dentro te lo vo'a esconder
Real G 4 Life tatuao' en mi piel
Fumando puré, chingando con 100 kilos en el hotel
Te la vo'a comer, este bicho te va a poseer…”

“Ahora se pasa en Snapchat mandándome fotos del culo y el crico…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl2NCXzg1FQ

This was played everywhere in the summer of 1995. Number 1 in three countries!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHGyi8lhyq0

"Girl your booty is so round
I just wanna lay you down
Let me take you from behind
I won't cum until it's time
But if I cannot sleep with you
Maybe I could have a taste
Put your nani on my tounge
And your booty on my face"

69 Boyz - "Kitty Kitty" wasn't anywhere near as ubiquitous as "Tootsee Roll", but it got played on the local teenybopper station here, cos some of my middle school classmates used to sing it.

Verse 1:
Girl, stop tryin' to be smooth
Make way for a brother to make the first move
You're tryin' to act nice and sweet
'Cause I know that you is a freak
So let a brother lick them paws
And run the tongue on the g-string draws
And tease the kitty just a little
Then stick my pole in the middle
Before I hit, let me ask
Did the dogs done hit in the path
'Cause if they ain't got they shots
Then the kitty might not get got
They say it ain't got a bad bone
In any ol 'eyes, it's gold
So girl, don't act seditty
Just give a brother some of that kitty!

Aw, kitty kitty!
{Here kitty-kitty, here kitty-kitty-kittyyyyy!}
I thought I saw a puddy tat!

Like I said, the party ain't dead,
All these chicken heads just scared!
Verse 2:
Kitties is cool and all that
But I like the real big cats
See, a cat got a little more strength
So they can take a little more length
You gotta feed a kitty real slow
But a cat can take a little bit mo'
So lay on down on the silk
So you can get a bowl of this milk
Then let's do it like dogs
I want to see ya climb the walls
And once I get in them guts
I'ma do that straight cat strut
So please don't make a brother beg
To get in between them legs
Come on girl, have some pity
And give a brother some of that kitty!

True dat, true dat! True dat, true dat!

Aw, kitty kitty!
{Here kitty-kitty, here kitty-kitty-kittyyyyy!}
I thought I saw a puddy tat!

Jay-Ski:
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
Jack came down, said "Thank you ma'am, but uh, you got change for a quarter?" Aaow!

Jay-Ski:
Check it out!
Lil' Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eatin' a bowl o' cream o' wheat
She gave me a show, whatta you know, that lil' *hoe* was a freak! Aaow!

Jay-Ski:
Check it!
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner beggin' this girl all night
She said no, he said "Oh! You gon' come on down and take a hike, baby!"

Jay-Ski:
Little Bo Peep lost her sheep, eyes were full of tears
I think girl need her *LONG BLEEP*; Whoot, there it is! Aaow!

Aw, kitty kitty!
{Here kitty-kitty, here kitty-kitty-kittyyyyy!}
I thought I saw a puddy tat!

and plus they were the fucking 69 Boyz.

Sugar Walls, of course.

I still want to know why they don't write songs like this anynore. Or maybe they do and they just don't get airplay anymore?

Because I don't want to go to all the trouble of writing my next masterpiece "I'd Like to Insert My Unusually Large Penis Into Your 14-Year Old Vagina, If That's Okay With You" unless I know it'll make me a millionaire.

It made a few bob for Gaz Glit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcmWtE5u41s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87H8xkKBv_U

it may not have seemed so explicit at first but PSB's 'West End Girls' has "Have you got it together, if so how often / Which do you choose the hard or soft option?" and then "How hard have you been" in the background straight after. i mean that's pretty full on for a worldwide number 1 pop song in 1984.

many xposts:

The radio version of 'Boom Boom Boom' had mostly different lyrics and had an entire verse cut out of it, though!

I never knew the background vocals line in "West End Girls" is "How hard have you been?"

"Humpty Dance"

"Me So Horny"

that one Trina ditty

Not all that explicit, not even for the time, but I remember my mom once coming into my bedroom and shutting off the radio on me when it was playing Madonna's "Hanky Panky."

Still gotta be "Sugar Walls."

"sugar walls" is really not that explicit is the thing, if you're using a metaphor then by default you are behind most of this thread

Whereas I knew what spanking was (even though I was a good decade off from understanding how it might be pleasurable).

"Short Dick Man" doesn't count cos there was a censored version of it played on the radio and MTV, called "Short Short Man". I still remember that vividly because that one word change made the lyrics so goofy:

Don't want no short, short man!

Eeny meenie teenie weenie shrivelled little short, short man!

I remembe hearing the uncensored version of "My Neck, My Back" on some late night MTV show, but did they really play it on American radio? (In here English lyrics are almost never censored on radio, I guess because the most of the ones who'd be offended by them are old fogeys who don't understand English well enough to get them anyway.)

Oh look, the video for "Short Short Man" is on Youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5obLmJ4O9E

I think several of the songs mentioned here had clean versions they played on American mainstream radio and TV? Like Petey Pablo's "Freek-a-leek":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M48nlk-1kH8

pioneering props to rod stewart for asking you, in 1976, to "spread your wings and let me come inside."

urgh God.

Vanity's Nasty Girl was pretty 0__o when you look back.

pioneering props to rod stewart for asking you, in 1976, to "spread your wings and let me come inside."

Minnie Riperton was already being more explicit (and less creepy) the year before:

You can see inside me, will you come inside me
Do you wanna ride, inside my love

Kim Wilde - 'You Came'

'Love' was freely employed as a euphemism for all sorts of things back in the day, eg 'Stick your rock-hard love up inside of my love while you simultaneously fingerblast my love'.

"gonna give you every inch of my love"

"I Want Your Sex" wasn't a huge it, mainly because it wasn't a very good song I guess, but I'm still surprised it got played.

In England In America it was a massive hit: #2, and it did the bait-and-switch almost as well as "Papa Don't Preach."

"What's Your Fantasy" remix is "Freek-A-Leek" explicit, but I think the version which actually made it to "radio" is like 4 minutes (vs 6 minute or so album version) so no idea what actually made it.

Can't believe we've overlooked this possible winner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv3M5OvCJuQ

Yummy yummy yummy
I've got 'love' in my tummy

''Love,'' rain o'er me

"You got Em in the place
who likes it in her face,
You got G, like M-C who likes it on an E..."

See, when they realised that they were gonna be much more successful than they dreamed, and that the kids would be listening, they stopped being quite so, um, explicit.

Same thing happened when the Beatles' and "Please please me" (it got quite close to being banned) gave way to holding hands, etc.

Imagining the alternate timeline of an increasingly-filthy Beatles where Golden something else filled my eyes.

That 'Gay Stripper' b/w 'We Can Jerk It Off' single would have been something else.

"Wannabe" is an excellent choice for this

If you wanna be my lover
You gotta get with my friends

... o rly

Next "Too Close" was pretty unavoidable.
― billstevejim, Saturday, December 17, 2016 5:38 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dear God, just now realized the double meaning of "you're making it hard for me".
― Neanderthal, Saturday, December 17, 2016 5:40 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol the entire song is ridiculous ("I feel a little poke comin' through"), even funnier cuz it's so smooth and sounds so romantic to a 11-year old such as myself who never tried to figure out the lyrics

obviously not a patch on half the stuff mentioned here but still

IMO "Too Close" is also a good call

COME BABY COME

Da ding de ding de ding de de de ding ding
Da ding de ding de ding de de de ding
Da ding de ding de ding de de de ding ding
De ding de de de ding de ding de de de ding ding

(Respect)

(Yeah, yeah)
Move it up (yeah, yeah)
Move it up (yeah, yeah)
Come on

(Bounce, come on bounce, bounce, come on bounce)
(Bounce, come on bounce)
Seven's always in control, you know what I'm sayin'
(Bounce, come on bounce)

I slam the door (Boom!)
When I come into the bedroom (Wham! Bam!)
'Cause I'm the King of the castle (na na na)
Turn me on turn me loose (come on, come on)
Try to hit it, it's a hassle
Come get some of this, don't forget the innuendo
Play me like Nintendo, never ever let go
Keep it so loud, you'll be hittin' the crescendo
(Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do)

(CHORUS:)
Come baby come baby baby come come
(Come baby come baby baby come come)
When you gotta give me lovin' then you gotta give me some
(You gotta give me lovin' and you gotta give me some)
Come baby come baby baby come come
(Come baby come baby baby come come)
When you gotta give me lovin' then you gotta give me some
(You gotta give me lovin' and you gotta give me some)
Come down

Well, I can hear the (ring ring ring)
The telephone goes ring (hello, hello)
But we're still gettin' busy
(Pom pom pom, hoo!) Now you're gettin' busy
I can slow it down so you can pump it (pump it)
Better move it fast so you can pump it (pump it)
Two balls and a bat (hoo), a pitcher with a hat (ha)
Slidin' into home base, tryin' to hit a home run
Swing batta batta batta batta batta swing!

(CHORUS)

Break it down, break it down, come on

(Bounce) Move it all around, (come on bounce) move it all around, bounce
(Bounce) Pump it up and down, (come on bounce) pump it up and down, bounce
(Bounce) Move it all around, (come on bounce) move it all around, bounce
(Bounce) Pump it up and down, (come on bounce) bounce, bounce

Tell me do you like it? (Yeah, yeah)
Do you want a little more? (Yeah, yeah)
Now tell me do you love it? (Yeah, yeah)
Come on! (Do do you love me?)
I can feel it (hoo baby baby), come on (ha baby baby)
Let it go (hoo baby baby), come on (ha baby baby)
Give it to me (hoo baby baby), come on (ha baby baby)
Give it to me (hoo! Straight up, now tell me)

(Bounce) da ding de ding (come on bounce) de ding de de de ding ding
(Bounce) da ding de ding (come on bounce) de ding de de de ding
(Bounce) da ding de ding (come on bounce) de ding de de de ding ding
(Bounce) de ding de de de ding de ding de de de ding ding

Come baby come baby baby come come
(Come baby come baby baby come come)
(Yeah) da ding de ding de ding de de de (hoo!) ding ding
(You gotta give me lovin' and you gotta give me some)
Come baby come baby baby come come
(Come baby come baby baby come come)
(Yeah, hoo!)
(You gotta give me lovin' and you gotta give me some)
Come baby come baby baby come come
(Come) step everybody, (baby come baby) step everybody (baby come come)
(Yeah) da ding de ding de ding de de de (hoo!) ding ding
(You gotta give me lovin' and you gotta give me some)
Come baby come baby baby come come
(Come baby come) all together now, come on (baby baby come come)
(Yeah, hoo!)
(You gotta give me lovin' and you gotta give me some)
Come down

CTL-F "H-Town" 0 results

come on, y'all

CTL-F "Candyman" 0 results

I mean

Every time you love me it's a real sugar treat
Love me little chewy cause you do it so sweet
Baby a living box of candy wrapped up so very fine
Do it to me chewy chew me out of my mind

(Sorry, forgot to ID the song: Ohio Express - 'Fucking a Wookiee')

That seems pretty tame compared to some other metaphors mentioned in this thread.

"Think of me what you will / I've got a little space to fill" - Tom Petty

Candy Man, hey Candy Man
Alright everybody, gather around
The Candy Man is here
What kind of candy do you want?
Sweet chocolate? Chocolate walnut candy?
Gum drops? Anything you want
You've come to the right man because
I'm the Candy Man

Who can take a sunrise?
(Who can take a sunrise?)
Sprinkle it with dew
(Sprinkle it with dew)
Cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two

Akinyele "Put It In Your Mouth"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMyL5kTZEbg

Wait what pop radio stations played Akinyele?

This thread is pretty quaint since basically every pop rap song has references to getting head now

I assumed Akinyele received airplay in 1996, although come to think of it, I knew the song way more from kids singing it on the schoolbus than from the radio. But then again, how else would these kids know the song?

Also Hot 97 is not the textbook definition of "pop" radio so... my mistake. Carry on.

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

"Motivation" by Kelly Rowland ft. Lil Wayne was pretty sexually explicit.

I don't think "Detachable Penis" is sexually explicit, because the lyrics don't make any reference to any sort of sexual activity. Penises do exist outside sex too. Also, was it really played on pop radio?

my best friend growing up came over my house laughing about this song when we were 9 and quoting it so I'm pretty sure it was as he came from a fundamentalist Christian family who wouldn't let him listen to secular music or see PG movies so he had to sneak in listens when they were busy picketing somewhere

"Detachable Penis" was an alt-rock radio hit if not a pop hit. Despite the subject matter I thought of it more as a novelty song than an explicit one though, kind of like "My Ding-a-ling"

"Detachable Penis" was an alt-rock radio hit if not a pop hit.

Yeah, but the thread is about mainstream pop radio. I'm sure alt-rock radios had looser standards on what sort of lyrics they allowed to be aired?

I never heard King Missile on Top 40. Only on Beavis & Butthead.

Dinosaur, Jr's "Lick Me Where It Looks Like Milton Berle" didnt get much traction

Ginuwine "Pony" for sure.

As I recall, "Detachable Penis" was in fairly heavy rotation on MTV & the radio for a month or so. It was marketed as alt-rock, but the kind of "alt-rock" that gets played on pop stations for "edginess." If nothing else, they deserve credit for releasing the only mainstream single with "penis" in the title. That was pretty shocking at time...but I was also 13.

Britney's "If You Seek Amy" perhaps?

I suppose Nicki Minaj must have some songs that would qualify but I don't know her work enough to tell !

The Bad Touch

Seem to recall that 'In the Bush' by Musique was played by UK radio stations for a while before quietly being removed from playlists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmX1xcCjfM

It's Sugar Walls, right? Everything else is a battle for second place.

Next "Too Close" was pretty unavoidable.

― billstevejim, Saturday, December 17, 2016 5:38 PM

dear God, just now realized the double meaning of "you're making it hard for me".

― Neanderthal, Saturday, December 17, 2016 5:40 PM

OMG! 😂 I like that song even more now...

wait till I tell you about "feel a little poke comin through"

there's only one song i know which prompted a months-long fbi investigation into just how explicit its lyrics were, and that was the kingsmen's 'louie louie'

Can I touch you there,
Touch you deep within
Can I touch you there,
Can I touch you... there

louie louie
muuuuuumble mumble
something something
yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

surprised to see that "In the Bush" only went to #58 US because I remember it being all over the radio, with everyone singing it, and the meaning was not lost on 10-year-olds, believe me

I COOOOOME INTOOO YOOOOUUU

your friend,
dave

wait till I tell you about "feel a little poke comin through"

Well, I always "got" that single-entendre!

CTRL+F Birkin, Gainsbourg : what! nobody?

But which of Gainesbourg's many mainstream pop radio hits do you even choose?

there's only one song i know which prompted a months-long fbi investigation into just how explicit its lyrics were, and that was the kingsmen's 'louie louie'

― “Emotional Interest Underwear” (bizarro gazzara)

and despite that lengthy investigation nobody managed to figure out the drummer yells "fuck!" in the middle of the song

But which of Gainesbourg's many mainstream pop radio hits do you even choose?

― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch)

"the marsellaise" of course

look i didn’t say it was a competent months-long fbi investigation

"You Suck" reached #7 on the Dutch pop charts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH6DhcR51iQ

look i didn’t say it was a competent months-long fbi investigation

they couldn't see the wood for the trees!

"Smell Yo Dick" didn't chart but was an internet hit

Xposts sugar walls was the very first thing that sprang to mind when I saw thread title

"Smell Yo Dick" didn't chart but was an internet hit

“Suck My Ass It Smells” by GG Allin didn’t chart, but every single person reading this thread has heard of it, QED

DO YA WANT IT IN YOUR PUSSY DO YA WANT IT IN YOUR ASS

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, December 17, 2016 10:55 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Slob on my knob like corn on the cob
Lie on the bed and give me some head

That's all well and good but what are the most sexually explicit songs to make onto mainstream pop radio?

This really died off after the 00s, didn't it? I guess the novelty of hearing dirty songs on the radio wore off.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, December 17, 2016 4:20 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Times have changed!

what was it like hearing "love to love you baby" on the radio? did parents tell their kids she was laughing?

I only ever heard that on Radio Luxembourg.

Oh, and we never got to hear "Sugar Walls" over here.

Speaking of Gainsbourg, surely "Love on the beat" belongs here !
(of course, the song AND the video are NSFW !)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI8GZ6CHVIA

The lyrics are pretty... raunchy too !
(first, there's a pun in the title as "beat" means "dick" in french...)

D'abord je veux avec ma langue
Natale deviner tes pensées
Mais toi déjà déjà tu tangues
Aux flux et reflux des marées

Je pense à toi en tant que cible
Ma belle enfant écartelée
Là j'ai touché le point sensible
Attends je vais m'y attarder

Il est temps de passer aux choses
Sérieuses ma poupée jolie
Tu as envie d'une overdose
De baise voilà je m'introduis

J'aime assez tes miaou miaou
Griffes dehors moi dents dedans
Ta nuque voir de ton joli cou
Comme un rubis perler le sang

Plus tu cries plus profond j'irai
Dans tes sables émouvants sables
Où m'enlisant je te dirai
Les mots les plus abominables

Brûlants sont tous tes orifices
Des trois que les dieux t'ont donnés
Je décide dans le moins lisse
D'achever de m'abandonner

Une décharge de six mille volts
Vient de gicler de mon pylône
Et nos reins alors se révoltent
D'un coup d'épilepsie synchrone

Love on the beat
Love on the beat

and an approximate translation for those who can't read french (difficult to translate Gainsbourg's stuff since it's all about wordplay !)

At first I want with my tongue to guess your thoughts
But you are already pitching At the ebb and flow of the tide

I think of you as a target
My pretty quartered child
Here, I've touched the sensitive point
Wait, I will linger on it

It is time to pass to
serious things my pretty doll
You have a craving for an overdose
of fucking, here it is, I'm introducing myself

I really love your miaow miaows
Claws outside, my teeth inside
Your nape, seeing your pretty neck
Like a ruby, forming beads of blood

The more you scream, the deeper I will go
Into your quicksands, sands
Where I get bogged down, I'll tell you
The naughtiest words

Blazing are all your orifices
The three that the gods have given you
I decide in the least smooth of them
To finish off and let myself go

A six thousand volt discharge
Has just spurted out of my pylon
And so our waists revolt
In a blow of synchronous epilepsy

*fans self*

nobody can deny that French truly is the language of lo...ads being blasted between her kidneys

maybe it's a generational thing but "sugar walls" sounds quaint more than anything, and not really all that explicit (since it still works on an entirely metaphorical level)

...which I posted two years ago apparently, oops

anyway rihanna's "rude boy" would qualify

Probably considered quaint today, but Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me" seemed pretty explicit for a Top 40 hit in 1995.

It's not sexually explicit in any sense, but props to Mylo for managing to get the word "motherfucker" in regular rotation on mainstream radio for a few years.

As far as metaphorically dirty 80s pop songs go, "Get into the Groove" is up there.

I'm tired of dancing here all by myself
Tonight I wanna dance with someone else

It's not as forthright as "She Bop" or as OTT as "Sugar Walls" but I think of it in the same category.

Precisely what "groove" are you speaking of here

I probably posted this but there was a moment in adulthood where I understood the weird violence in Van Halen calling a vagina “Pound Cake”

is that Meatloaf song about not wanting to perform oral

I nominate "Laffy Taffy".

Saxophone / Lord Kitchener
Les Sucettes / Gainsbourg
Push the Button / Sugacubes

Einar’s part in Push The Button was a real eye-opener, yeah

That Gainsbourg video is funny... the guy looks like he can barely muster up the enthusiasm to take a drag on his cigarette, let alone perform all the vigorous acts described in the song.

also [citation needed] for how much Lord Kitchener was getting played on mainstream pop radio in 1954, when mainstream pop was not legally allowed to be played on UK radio waves, let alone calypso

Dinosaur, Jr's "Lick Me Where It Looks Like Milton Berle" didnt get much traction

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, December 27, 2016 5:05 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

underrated post

re: "Too Close" the spoken intro is "I wonder if she can tell that I'm hard right now" so I never really thought it was about anything else.

even knowing many of the lyrics pretty decently, including the spoken intro line, it took me a while to put two and two together for "too close". mind you my age consisted of a single digit when it was popular.

a few years later when the "lady marmalade" cover got big i felt like i had learned some extra-juicy secret when i looked up the lyrics online and realized it was about a prostitute. (i even knew enough french to understand the chorus line, so why i even needed to look up the lyrics to come to this realization is beyond me. i was a fairly oblivious child.)

maybe not the most explicit song, but Sean Paul was able to hide a lot of frank sex talk with his patois on "Like Glue"

That Gainsbourg video is funny... the guy looks like he can barely muster up the enthusiasm to take a drag on his cigarette, let alone perform all the vigorous acts described in the song.

― yuh yuh (morrisp), mercredi 20 février 2019 20:05 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahah, yeah. but he had a huge reputation as a lover... and had a baby with the woman dancing in that video a couple of years later !

Was Prince's "Erotic City" played uncut on the radio?

I recall stories of at least one station getting stuck with a substantial fine for playing "Erotic City" uncut during rush hour.

I remember our local contemporary hip hop and R&B station in the mid 90s sometimes doing throwback type shows and playing Erotic City unedited - only time I remember hearing the word fuck on the radio as they were usually pretty thorough with playing the edited versions

Britney's "If You Seek Amy" perhaps?

― Mark G, Tuesday, February 19, 2019 2:10 AM (four days ago)

radio played an edit that replaced 'seek' with 'see' in the chorus. + the song is very unremarkable beyond the title

re: "erotic city" i suppose stations could have claimed ignorance, thinking utterances of 'fuck' were actually 'funk' or w/e (i'm guessing the ambiguity there was intentional to begin w/)

lol which also reminds me of non-swear words that sometimes get edited out for radio because they sound like they might be swears. i remember ne-yo singing 'pimp-ship flying high' in keri hilson's "knock you down" often having 'ship' cut out

I think ZZ Top is still getting away w/the "Shit! I've Got Have Her" line in "Legs", but I could be wrong.

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction made it into the UK Top 20 in 1987 with a song that includes the following verse:

Well, I'm Christ in shades, I'm the Napalm God
Your lipstick flickers 'round my lightning rod
You fever-pitch bitch, you love to tease
I'm a hot dog daddy - open your knees

Alison Moyet’s Love Resurrection is one for the ‘massive daytime radio hit where if you don’t listen closely to the words you wouldn’t think of it as raunchy’ category. It’s genuinely amazing they got away with it. Master And Servant too obvs, there was something funny in the British water in 1984/85. Possibly it was the Frankie Goes To Hollywood influence?

Speaking of the Britney track, how many recall the Canadian band April Wine doing nearly the same thing back in 1982 with their single "If You See Kay." It certainly got radio play (and MTV too I think) - otherwise I wouldn't have remembered it, but wasn't a big hit. Granted, Britney's little lyrical twist makes it stronger.

gimme more seems like a more sexually explicit song than if you seek amy, had wider exposure too

*cntrl-Fs "khia"*

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c'mon people

"my neck my back" was mentioned twice

haha woops

speaking of, i heard "oops (oh my)" today and thought of this thread

Late Junction on radio 3 the other week played a live Throbbing Gristle track that mentioned fisting

"she told me to come but I was already there" is legit compelling because, in its case, the meaning is so glaringly obvious