Male/female perspectives in sexually-orientated songs

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Taking Missy's 'Work It' as an example...if it was done by a male artist do you think you would like it more/less/the same?

"girls, girls all type of girls, blak white puerto rican chinese girls"

"if you got a wet (MEOW!) lemme search it..." etc.

i think i'd like it less!...is there something 'feminine' in the music as well - could it work from a male perspective just as well?

i seem to be happier listening to sexual tracks by females tho thats not to say i dont like any sex-orientated 'urban' tracks sung/performed by males (i like 'Manhood' by Viktor Dupleix, Usher's 'U Dont Have To Call' is ok tho thats more down to the Neps production - could these tracks be flipped easily and sung by females?) - i guess its hard to 'dislike' Barry White to some extent either

if you want to expand on this - what can men get away with rapping/singing about that women cant and vice versa???

― blueski, Monday, 28 October 2002 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the way that early PJ Harvey reduced sex to pure physicality ("rub it til it bleeds", "you leave me dry", "lick my legs") and I've always doubted that a male could get away with, or at least be taken seriously, with this kind of detailing of the anatomy of sex. It's like, a hypothetical "The Penis Monologues" could only be a jokey proposition.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Eyeball Kicks: http://www.talkingcock.co.uk - so, yes, you're right.

― Dan Emerson, Monday, 28 October 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

God, yeah, that's my point in a nutshell, so to speak.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The British nu-hardcore (or whatever they're calling it nowadays) band Capdown do a cover of "Caught Out There", which is overtly distressing, as just be switching the gender of the narrator it switches from being female "you go girl!" empowerment, to a song about a guy boasting about he's kicked the shit out of his girl for cheating.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

and i suppose instead of saying 'even..sucked your dick" they say "even...licked your clit" - so clever!

― blueski, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"Manhood" is terrific, although I think I like the instrumental more. "Never F*ck" by Romanthony is similar, but they're both funny. I think Jarvis Cocker does this stuff well, but it's always accusatory ("you should have chose me silly, oh well off with yer panties") and not especially meat-y.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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