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Sexploitation in Music Forget about Do-Wa-Diddy & get ready to moan along! Featured Recipe: Boom Box
Ingredients:
* 1/3 part Smirnoff Vodka
* 1/3 part White wine
* 1/3 part Coffee
Instructions:
This is a shot ~ pour 1/3 of shot glass with vodka, then another 1/3 wine, last, add hot coffee. We're told this is a great way to deal with a hangover...
Music History Lesson: Sexploitation Tunes
In 1975, Donna Summer released the 17 minute song filled with orgasmic cries called "Love to Love You Baby." The song was a hit on the disco circuit and much debate and discussion dealt with around just how genuine those moans were. Sex has always been a part of the music. There are risqué R&B numbers, raunchy blues ditties; rock and roll took its name from slang for doing the horizontal mambo. Don’t even get me started on opera... talk about some weird fetish freaks!
While Led Zeppelin used simulated moans and groans as part of "Whole Lotta Love" and various other groups and numerous soul acts made sure to provide enough grunts to get the point across, no song caused quite the stir like Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s "Je T’Aime…Moi Non Plus." Not unlike the Donna Summer disco single, this classic was built around the sound of female orgasmic pleasure. The 1968 tune features Gainsbourg crooning while Birkin coos and moans in ecstasy. The song was such a sensation in Europe that the Vatican issued a condemnation against it and like any success, the floodgates were open and a virtual orgy of copy cats arrived.
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The majority of these "cash-ins" seem to follow the same pattern. Numerous nameless musicians assemble in a studio and pump out primal jungle beats with some funky jazz or mellow soft rock. They bang out an early disco pulse with some thrusting throbbing bass line and some slinky synthesizer fills while some woman with a French accent moans with delight over the backing track. These songs are the equivalent to 70's porn. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them made their way into the soundtracks with the boom-chikka-boom and the ohh ohh ahh. There is a sense humor and nostalgia that makes the song all the more appealing. The song is then packaged in a sleeve with some hot blonde tilting her head back in ecstasy.
Whether it is the Gainsbourg duets with Birkin or those with Brigitte Bardot, a sleaze recording like "Erotica" by Rita (no last name), some Latin filled boogie by Chakachas' “Jungle Fever" or something truly over-the-top as the song "Missionary", which features a woman shrieking "I am to come!" over driving pounding drum beats, there is no mistaking that this little niche of three minute climax creations are unique and will leave you smiling or tingling in the throws of eargasm!
© Casetta, who also writes Scratch, Pop & Hiss.
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