I'm not interested in cases where lyrics describing sex are intentionally disturbing, so gimme just examples where someone clearly attempted to write sexy lyrics yet failed.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
1. Rebbie Jackson - Centipede
I love this tune, but I can't imagine why anyone thought a centipede would be the perfect metaphor for sex? As in, you know, the insect with a creepy amount of legs? Yet this tune tries to convince us that a centipede crawling through the window and touching us with its numerous icky limbs is somehow comparable to sexual pleasure:
Don't you know in the quiet of the nightIs when the snake is in the crawlin'And the moon starts to glow then disappearWhen the time is really rightIs when the centipede is crawlin'You'll be crying in the night so many tearsAnd you're crawlin' like a centipede
Centipede
You came, ohTo strike him with your touchLike you crawled into the bathroom windowTo bite him with your love
Like a centipede that's hotThe fire is in your touchJust like a centipede you've gotA lot of lovin' to touch
Seriously, get that bloody bug off of me!
― Tuomas, Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
Well, let's get the obvious out of the way:
2. "Your body is a wonderland"
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 16 March 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
this doesn't fail for the reasons Tuomas wants but "I'll let you put your hands on me in my skintight jeans" has always rubbed me the wrong way
― bernard snowy, Monday, 16 March 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
3. If you'll be my strawberry bubblegum,Then I'll be your blueberry lollipop
― katherine, Monday, 16 March 2015 03:42 (nine years ago) link
michael franks to thread
― brimstead, Monday, 16 March 2015 06:15 (nine years ago) link
And my baby cooks her Eggplant,'Bout nineteen different ways.Sometimes I just have it raw with Mayonnaise.
― brimstead, Monday, 16 March 2015 06:16 (nine years ago) link
You got the nicest North AmericaThis sailor ever saw.I'd like to feel your warm BrazilAnd touch your PanamaBut Your Tierra del FuegosAre nearly always froze.We gotta see sawUntil we unthaw thosePopsicle toes.Popsicle toes.Popsicle toes are always froze.Popsicle toes.You're so brave to expose all those popsicle toes
But Your Tierra del FuegosAre nearly always froze.We gotta see sawUntil we unthaw thosePopsicle toes.Popsicle toes.Popsicle toes are always froze.Popsicle toes.You're so brave to expose all those popsicle toes
― brimstead, Monday, 16 March 2015 06:17 (nine years ago) link
I go downtownTo wrestle a live nude girl
― brimstead, Monday, 16 March 2015 06:19 (nine years ago) link
As I wrote in another thread the other day, "drunk on your juices" from Live's "Turn My Head" is kinda squicky in isolation but Ed Kowalczyk's delivery of the line (and the fact that it's Ed Kowalczyk delivering the line) just sends it soaring into the stratosphere of barfdom.
― Don't Dog My Chow (Old Lunch), Monday, 16 March 2015 11:19 (nine years ago) link
"Still a little bit of your taste in my mouth"
― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link
Could you all maybe include the name of the artist and song with the lyrics, for context?
― Tuomas, Monday, 16 March 2015 12:23 (nine years ago) link
"Cannonball", Damien Rice
― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2015 12:51 (nine years ago) link
dr hook's 'a little bit more' has always squicked me out:
When your body's had enough of meAnd I'm laying flat out on the floorWhen you think I've loved you all I canI'm gonna love you a little bit more
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 16 March 2015 12:51 (nine years ago) link
Perfect example, thank you.
― Don't Dog My Chow (Old Lunch), Monday, 16 March 2015 13:06 (nine years ago) link
"Running down a central reservation in last night's red dressAnd I can still smell you on my fingers and taste you on my breath"
Beth Orton - Central Reservation
― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
In the same vein as that Dr. Hooks tune, you have the chorus of Inner Circle's "Sweat":
Girl, I want to make you sweat, sweat till you can't sweat no moreAnd if you cry out, I'm gonna push it some moreGirl, I want to make you sweat, sweat till you can't sweat no moreAnd if you cry out, I'm gonna push it, push it, push it some more
It's never a good thing if the lyrics to your "sexy" song could easily be used to describe rape...
― Tuomas, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
i guess the antithesis of that rapey vibe is silk's 'freak me', the chorus of which goes Let me lick you up and down till you say stop which just makes me think of silk as an annoying slobbery dog that needs to be shooed away
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
Haha!
― Tuomas, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
jessica simpson "i wanna love you forever"
pour yourself all over me and i'll cherish every drop here on my knees
not disturbing but unintentionally funny/ridiculous/distracting for sure
― dyl, Monday, 16 March 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
as 'you don't want it, but I know you want it' songs go, Maroon 5's 'Animals' is a million times creepier than 'Blurred Lines':
Baby, I'm preying on you tonightHunt you down, eat you aliveJust like animals, animals, like animals-malsMaybe you think that you can hideI can smell your scent from milesJust like animals, animals, like animals-malsSo what you trying to do to meIt's like we can't stop we're enemiesBut we get along when I'm inside youYou're like a drug that's killing meI cut you out entirelyBut I get so high when I'm inside youYeah, you can start over, you can run freeYou can find other fish in the seaYou can pretend it's meant to beBut you can't stay away from meI can still hear you making that soundTaking me down, rolling on the groundYou can pretend that it was meBut no
Maybe you think that you can hideI can smell your scent from milesJust like animals, animals, like animals-mals
So what you trying to do to meIt's like we can't stop we're enemiesBut we get along when I'm inside youYou're like a drug that's killing meI cut you out entirelyBut I get so high when I'm inside you
Yeah, you can start over, you can run freeYou can find other fish in the seaYou can pretend it's meant to beBut you can't stay away from meI can still hear you making that soundTaking me down, rolling on the groundYou can pretend that it was meBut no
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 16 March 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
But No! It was The Manfreds!
― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Entirely intentional, in the case of Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch"
So put your hands down my pants and I'll bet you'll feel nutsYes I'm Siskel, yes I'm Ebert and you're getting two thumbs upYou've had enough of two-hand touch you want it rough you're out of boundsI want you smothered want you covered like my Waffle House hashbrownsCome quicker than FedEx never reach an apex just like Coca-Cola stock you are inclinedTo make me rise an hour early just like Daylight Savings TimeDo it nowYou and me baby ain't nothin' but mammalsSo let's do it like they do on the Discovery ChannelDo it again nowYou and me baby ain't nothin' but mammalsSo let's do it like they do on the Discovery ChannelGettin' horny nowLove the kind you clean up with a mop and bucketLike the lost catacombs of Egypt only God knows where we stuck itHieroglyphics? Let me be Pacific I wanna be down in your South SeasBut I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means "Small Craft Advisory"So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, B-5 you sunk my battleshipPlease turn me on I'm Mister Coffee with an automatic dripSo show me yours I'll show you mine "Tool Time" you'll Lovett just like LyleAnd then we'll do it doggy style so we can both watch "X-Files
Do it nowYou and me baby ain't nothin' but mammalsSo let's do it like they do on the Discovery ChannelDo it again nowYou and me baby ain't nothin' but mammalsSo let's do it like they do on the Discovery ChannelGettin' horny now
Love the kind you clean up with a mop and bucketLike the lost catacombs of Egypt only God knows where we stuck itHieroglyphics? Let me be Pacific I wanna be down in your South SeasBut I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means "Small Craft Advisory"So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, B-5 you sunk my battleshipPlease turn me on I'm Mister Coffee with an automatic dripSo show me yours I'll show you mine "Tool Time" you'll Lovett just like LyleAnd then we'll do it doggy style so we can both watch "X-Files
― You and your damn elves, I'm sick of it! (Sanpaku), Monday, 16 March 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
B4-4 - Get Down
― MarkoP, Monday, 16 March 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Submitted for your approval: Emerson Lake & Palmer's "Taste Of My Love." I cannot imagine a more perfect song for this thread.
"Taste Of My Love"
Oh, you look so hungry, womanHow come you strayed in hereWith your eyes so brightOn this long hot night
Could it be for a taste of my love
Down on your kneesWith your face to the wallSaying please, please, pleaseMy friend said I should call
Well, I do feel lonely, womanAnd to tell the truthI could use some companySo come closer to me
Help yourself to a taste of my love
Call up room serviceOrder peaches and creamI like my dessert firstIf you know what I mean
Yeah, taste it, taste it, taste itAround the maze of pleasureTo the gates of painYou're driving me insane
Take all you need from the taste of my love
I want to love youLike nobody ever loved youGet on my stallionAnd we'll ride
I want to hold youAnd enfold you beyond reasonI want to dynamite your mindWith love tonight
Go down gentlyWith your face to the eastThe sun may be risingBut we haven't finished the beast
Ooh, you still look hungry, womanI'm glad your came in hereWith your eyes so brightOn this long hot night
Ooh, you need love, I need loveHere it comes, the taste of my love
I'm gonna love youLike nobody ever loved youClimb on my rocketAnd we'll fly
Over the moonPast the sun 'til we findThe gates of heavenOpen wide for lovers
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 16 March 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
― Mark G, Monday, March 16, 2015 11:59 AM
Somehow the first time I've made the connection between this Damien Rice line and Ed Sheeran singing "Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love?"
― Iain Mew (if), Monday, 16 March 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
yuk.
Written when he was twelve maybe? (xpost)
Yeah, I noticed that too.
― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
The new Calvin Harris/Big Sean song, 'Open Wide', seriously
I'm taking off her blouseWhile she taking off my trousers[...]Open that shit wideLet me see how big your mouth is
― Sharkie, Monday, 16 March 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
Before she reach I could smell her perfume I could not wait to get her inna di room Feel like a surgeon Prepare di surgery But I hope di likkle girl no charge me fi perjury Action wit di injection Worky, worky girl, according to plan
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link
if you wouldn't be pleased if Beth Orton txted you this the next day then I
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
Not disturbing & prob too obvious, but— Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love.” Just goes to show, imo, double entendres for penis in song almost invariably fail to be sexy.
lol I remember as a young teen (still uncomfortable with the idea of sex), already happily listening to punk & psych rock, yet for some reason I had an aversion to Led Zeppelin. I remember telling my friend metaphorically it had “too much cock in it,” ha!
― drash, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
Show me what you got on my LCDLet's get down to itSo you can get down on meCybering is so 1999You've got to be textually activeIf you wanna be mine
'Cause...
I wanna fuck you hardI wanna feel you deepI wanna rock your bodyI wanna taste your sweet
I wanna fuck you hardI wanna feel you deepI wanna aah ahhI wanna aah ahh
― maura, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
When I text it's sex! sex! sex!You start to undress! Dress!Poppin' out your chest,In your friends' request.Now I'm rocking on your topAnd you know I just can't stop stopMake you dropFeel you up till I hit the spot'Cause I can't take TAKE TAKEALL THIS WAIT! WAIT!I'm so impatientYou got me wait'nCut this shit!Show your tits!Flip it out on my sidekickLike quagmire on family guyGiggity! Giggity! All the time
― maura, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:03 (nine years ago) link
that's from the same song
now and forever I love Neil Diamond's "Forever in Blue Jeans":
and honey's sweetbut it ain't nothing next to baby's treat
― Vic Perry, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
we have a winner. xp
i find some of those "feel like makin love" 70s rock cliches kind of hot tbr.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:23 (nine years ago) link
"Afternoon Delight" with its fish metaphor
but you got some bait awaitin' and I think I mighttry nibbling a little afternoon delight
― Vic Perry, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
true, tacky and sexy not mutually exclusive
― drash, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
Nibbling the bait takes the cake.
― A Whizzer, A Poo Star (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 13:02 (nine years ago) link
Bob's Yer Uncle / Happy Mondays
― mahb, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
look, up in the sky, it's Paul the sweet banana with possibly the most awful ever:
Well, well, take off your faceRecover from the trip you've been onI want you to lie on the bedGet you ready for my body gun
I'm gonna do it to you, gonna do ya sweet bananaYou've never been doneYes, like a rabbit, gonna grab itGonna do it 'til the night is done
― Vic Perry, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
Officially, it's "Polygon" but yeah.
(.. naah)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
ken andrews (failure guy) typically has about one of these per album. there's an ON album that has some couplet about getting a girl drunk and tasting her "ocean funk"
― soyrev, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
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yes
no
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Beyoncé - 'Blow':
Can you eat my skittlesIt's the sweetest in the middlePink is the flavorSolve the riddleI'm a lean backDon't worry it's nothing majorMake sure you clean thatIt's the only way to get theFlavor
I'm a lean backDon't worry it's nothing majorMake sure you clean thatIt's the only way to get theFlavor
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
This gem by Enrique Iglesias:
You know my motivationGiven my reputationPlease excuse me I don't mean to be rudeBut tonight I'm fucking you
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
haha well as far as that goes nothing beats Akon following up "I'm trying to find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful" with "Damn, you's a sexy bitch, a sexy bitch."
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link