Songs about Robots AND Sex

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This is related to the question about robot songs, I guess. A friend of mine has to do a project on sexy robots for some class. It's a sign of the decline of American higher education, I'm sure. Anyway, she thought I would be the person to ask, but I realized that while I know of many songs about robots, and many about sex, I cannot think of any that combine both. Ideally I'd like to hear about ones that are actually sexy, not smarmy in a hipster or Kraftwerk sort of way. This is really a gap in my musical knowledge.

― Chris H., Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll bet you that there are some good ones with orgasmic vocoder moaning.

― Chris H., Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"A friend of mine has to do a project on sexy robots for some class" = WHAT CLASS IS THIS?!

― geeta, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

blah blah blah some shit dnb record blah blah blah add n to x blah blah blah some glam 80s crap blah blah blah.

― ethan, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude, Gary Numan owns this particular subcategory. "Are Friends Electric?" is just the most famous.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

na na na na na na na na na nanana na... you know.

― tyler, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The front cover of Aerosmiths Just Press Play?

― Lord Custos II, rev 2., Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Here's a poem in that vein.

― bnw, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think the class is about the "Post-Modern City." The plan is to make a video montage of notable "sexy robot" moments in film history, I would assume from Metropolis to Weird Science. It needs a good soundtrack. Sex Machine could be a good choice, maybe a little too obvious though.

― Chris H., Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was going to mention "Sy Borg" but the thread's creator specifically said that he doesn't want smarmy human-robot sex songs.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does Prince's "Computer Blue" count? or "Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)?

― J Blount, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Little Robot Lost In Space" - James Kochalka Superstar..."lady I feel funny, down below my tummy"

― jel --, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Metal Fingers In My Body by Add N To X, I say again.

― Nick Southall, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

everyone's being very literalist here about who counts as a robot: the answer - if you want to wow yr "pomo" tutor – is beyoncé knowles

upside of the exclusion of smarmy from sexy excludes zappa; downside, it merely helps define "sexy" in the most conventional and tired way

("post-modern" is a word without meaning)

― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mark- do you know who was the first writer to use 'post-modern' in pop/rock criticism?

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a lot of stuff that feels like it's about robot sex even when it's probably not: M. Mayer's "Hush Hush Baby", Kylie's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head", 112's "Peaches & Cream", Basement Jaxx's "Rendez-vu" and "Get Me Off", Lil' Kim's "How Many Licks" etc.

― Tim, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Logically, robots themselves would never perceive sexy-ness, unless we are talking advanced emotional replicants. Therefore, the ideal song about robots and sex would be very mathmatical, functional and rythmic.

Only humans could view a robot as sexy. A robot would not view a human as sexy. I think this is an interesting project.

― jel --, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

see disco thread, surely.

― bob zemko, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

paul morley wrote a nme feature on jayne of big in japan, c.1979/80, using the word the way HE anted it to evolve (??) => the postmodern condition publ.in 1979 (tr.english in 1984 i think), but of course the word predated lyotard (eg in architecture esp.)

i imagine it partly took hold via writing on rock video (sean cubitt et al?) once that became a CultStud growth industry (new medium = new univ.dept hurrah!!); penman (and green gartside) were certainly reading SCREEN, which was the prior vector of most frenchification back in the 70s....

plus the reynolds mob at mm, 1985 onwards

― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cylob- Sex Machine

― lou, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude - Servotron. A robot band with plenty of references to robots rendering men obsolete - and some musical digs at the "Small Wonder" series.

― Pamela, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would imagine Kool Keith or Deltron 3030 prolly touched on this subject but have no specifics, sorry.

― Gilgamesh, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dont you limeys know? The Catherine Wheel, "Black Metallic"- It's about sex and robots, the guitars freakout and shoegaze, and rob dickinson oozes sex with his singing.

then there's the bjork all is full of love video as a visual representation of sexy robots.

― maggie, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I find it hard to see beyond "Sexy Robot" by Martin Degville.

― Taylor Parkes, Wednesday, 1 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So you read that Stud Brothers review and laughed too, did you?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

twenty-three years pass...

Oh man I have a whole collection of songs about sex with robots, from Automatic Lover to Janelle Monáe. A friend just turned me on to a whole new one. Disco Dream and the Androids!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxGIKQ6a_HY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vy2Je9RW5g

This track even has vocals by Hawkwind's Robert Calvert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70CMgnLpARI

― Etherwave, Friday, 1 August 2025 07:35 (ten months ago)

XALAN - I ONLY MOVE FOR MONEY (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSh56VGuZ68

https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/xalan-1.jpeg https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/xalan-2.jpeg

https://wearethemutants.com/2017/02/22/solo-me-muevo-por-dinero-i-only-move-for-money-by-xalan-1984/

― Reggaeton Sax (NickB), Friday, 1 August 2025 07:56 (ten months ago)

Wow, that's a gem! But 1984 feels quite late for robot sex?

To me, this (Dee D. Jackson - Automatic Lover) from 1978 feels quite emblematic of the genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjnyK9s14ns

Both these songs have the main theme of this mini-genre, though. That robot love is somehow cold, calculated, unsatisfying in some way. That technology is something that gets in the way of love, romance, human emotion.

I think that's what's great about Disco Dream and the Androids to me. That robot sex is something fun, exciting, mind-expanding. It highlights the adventure and potential ecstacy of space! science! and the future!

― Etherwave, Friday, 1 August 2025 08:21 (ten months ago)

Super Furry Animals - Sex, War and Robots

― el gato tuerto, Friday, 1 August 2025 12:04 (ten months ago)

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― Etherwave, Friday, 1 August 2025 14:30 (ten months ago)

I apologise deeply and I will now flag my own post as inappropriate

― Etherwave, Friday, 1 August 2025 14:30 (ten months ago)

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