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For ****'s Sake
Lordy. Yesterday, I was looking for a pop song for my kids and I opened Spotify. In the 'Top Lists' section is a song by Enrique Iglesias sweetly called 'Tonight (I'm ****ing You)'. The asterisks - which don't appear on Spotify - are the well known anglo Saxon swear word beginning with 'F'. There is an alternative version called Tonight (I'm Loving You), in the same way that Ceelo Green's fantastic 'Forget You' is a version of the much dumber '**** You'.
What happened to innuendo and subtlety in music? Is this in your face out and out profanity about record sales and impact? Or are artists genuinely happy to swear like troopers? Would Smokie Robinson's 'Who's Loving You?' have sold more is it was called 'Who's ****ing You'? How about if Bad Company had made 'Feel Like ****ing You'? Can you imagine if Top of the Pops did come back? It would be post-watershed, viewing along with the rest of Sweary TV.
Any other examples of crass single-entendre in pop spotted by the Massive?
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Wayne County
famously had a way with words, back in about 1978. I have a gold vinyl Electric Chairs 7 inch single of his/hers with a very singular title.
Indeed she did
Notably, a woman was prosecuted for wearing a badge on the London tube, that bore that song title, after a complaint was made by fellow passenger.
A college friend of mine
Was cautioned by the police for wearing a badge that declared he was too inebriated to procreate (or something similar).
was the OP taking the piss?
If it wasn't, can I just point out that * fuck You, is a genius song - and if anodyned to Forget You, it becomes , well, shit. I really hhope the OP was A joke...........
.....
Not taking the piss,
honest, Big V, but 'Fuck You' is a bit, well, blunt... and Forget You *is* more subtle and get's the message across just as well. Nothing anodyne about it, IMHO, but if you want 9 year olds swearing like troupers, it's your call.
I kind of agree about
the nine year old bit.
However, I think the whole point of the song is the incredibly petulant use of the words "fuck you" He's stamping his little footsie because his woman's run off with someone else. 'Forget' kind of waters down the strength of the feeling a bit I think.
was the OP taking the piss?
If it wasn't, can I just point out that * fuck You, is a genius song - and if anodyned to Forget You, it becomes , well, shit. I really hhope the OP was A joke...........
.....
It's just desperate
attention seeking. No-one appears to sell records in any quantity these days so any little bit of controversy to keep their name in the public eye via (their PRs hope) a headline or two in the Daily Mail will be welcome to these 'artists'.
Have we done this on Twitter yet?
Substituted 'fuck' for 'love' in song titles, that is?
A quick search on iTunes for 'loving' brings out the juvenile giggles.
(I now can't get Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt singing 'Fucking the Highway Man' out of my head.)
Bleeding F***
by Leona Lewis. The sort of thing you shout when you stub your toe. Or perhaps a Scandinavian death metal band.
We can read english, you know
:)
Bade Company's less subtle
Feel Like Fucking, Love
Note the 'Love'.
That's how to speak to a lady - right classy.
Pink's current hit
'F***in' Perfect'.
Which is pretty charming compared to the lyrics of up&coming pop sensation Nicki Minaj...
http://www.elyricsworld.com/roman's_revenge_lyrics_nicki_minaj.html
Lovely stuff
My kids are two and five. I shudder to think how egotistical and nasty pop music might be by the time they're teenagers.
Minnie Ripperton's
"Lovin' You" would probably still sound quite sweet...
Whreas Neil Diamond's
'Love on the Rocks' would be a no-no.
Although, if the rocks in question shared the characteristics of his surname...
Macca's...
My Fuck wouldn't have been quite the same.
Fuck Potion No.9, however, could have been ace.
There's also the subtle little number by 'The Script'
'If You See Kay' - how we laughed.............
I believe ...
... Memphis Slim got there, if not first, then a great deal earlier, in song, with others following, and the fingerprints of Mr James Joyce are also on this pun (and acknowledged by the Script, it seems, to give them credit), with Mr William Shakespeare also mentioned (though not for the word under discussion but the one that even the filthiest-mouthed women of my acquaintance will reference only, with a maiden aunt sniff in their expression, as "the 'c' word"):
http://www.slate.com/id/2214106/
Damn
you beat me to the Britney reference...
Fuck Her Madly, The Doors (Also, Fuck Me Two Times)
Fuck Me Do, The Beatles
Fuck Of My Life, Queen
Fucking Cup, The Rolling Stones
etc
Fuck
As Stevie Wonder observed, is in need of fuck today.
Yummy yummy yummy I've got fuck in my tummy?
Living in the fuck of the common people?
Hello young fuckers everywhere?
I wouldn't want
Lessons in how to "F*ck my way".
And as for the F*ck plus one?
Sometimes single entendre is best
Exhibit A m'lud - the most honest (and therefore admirable) title for an album I've ever known "Songs About Fucking" by Big Black
See also: Too Drunk to Fuck
See also:
Too Drunk to Fuck
fuck minus zero
no limit
Sometimes less is more (filthy)
Songs For Swinging Fuckers
featuring
If Fucking You Is Wrong
I've Been Fucking You Too Long
Fuck In An Elevator
I Fuck To Fuck (But My Baby Just Fucks To Dance)
One Fuck
Fuck Hurts
He Stopped Fucking Her Today
Fuck Is A Four Letter Word
Fuck Me For A Reason
I Fuck To Fuck (But My Baby
*applause*
Band names?
The Fuckin' Spoonful
The House of Fuck
The Modern Fuckers
And From Broadway...
Hello Young Fuckers (Wherever You Are)
I Don't Know How To Fuck Him
Fuck Is A Many Splendored Thing
You Made Me Fuck You (I Didn't Wanna Do It)
PIL
This is not a fuck song.
If we go down the Cee-Lo route...
...we end up with Patrice Rushen's "Fuck Me Nots", or viewed the other way, the Dead Kennedys "Too Drunk To Forget".
Some things are best left unspoken
It Must have Been Fuck
Lay All Your Fuck On Me
You Give Fuck A Bad Name
I´m Not In Fuck
Fuck Me Tender
Can You Feel The Fuck Tonight
You Only Tell Me You Fuck Me When You´re Drunk.
Well, back to work.
Bon Iver - Skinny Fuck
Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Fuck
Bon Jovi - You Give Fuck A Bad Name
Soft Cell - Tainted Fuck
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Fuck Is
Black Eyed Peas - Where is The Fuck? (sounds like a Sopranos remix)
and finally
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Fuck Theme from Titanic)
There's probably never been a better moment
To post this fucker.
Very worried about
All The World Fucks Fuckers - Prefab Sprout
What Time Is Fuck? - KLF
Big Fuck - Fleetwood Mac
Can I Steal A Little Fuck? - Frank Sinatra
(I'm reproaching myself. My head hangs in shame.)
But, to provide Karmic Balance
we also have the KLF's 1987: What The Love Is Going ON?
When your body's had enough of me
And I'm laying flat out on the floor
When you think I've fucked you all I can
I'm gonna fuck you a little bit more
Those were the days, love...
Howzabout...
...'Long-Haired Fucker From Liverpool'?
Whatever you do...
...don't bring Lulu...