"1+1" where she outright pleads "Make love to me."
"Naughty Girl" is quite dirty.
The high-water mark is probably "Partition" (which also samples the "Do you like sex?" dialogue from The Big Lebowski, in case it was somehow unclear)
Franco De Vita: The theme of "Sexo" (Sex) and "Ay Dios" (Oh God), portrayed in opposite ways. The former is about Franco telling his partner about wanting to have sex with her, though she tells him that he's only thinking about sex; in the latter, they are having a long moment of intimacy.
Janet Jackson's albums practically live and breathe this trope, although you really have to look no further than her janet. album. If and Anytime, Anyplace are the most blatant, though sexual subtlety is not a strength.
To drive the point home, the dirty version of that album isn't on the iTunes Store.
Hell, even on Rhythm Nation 1814, an album full of social commentary, has "Love Will Never Do Without You" (albeit downplayed and "Someday is Tonight".
Ditto "Luv Me, Luv Me", her collaboration with Shaggy, who himself frequently uses this trope in his solo songs.
And then there's the one-two punch of "Warmth" and "Moist" from the Damita Jo album. The former has Jackson describing how she is giving her lover oral sex and segues right into the latter, where said lover returns the favor.
Pretty much whenever the sound of a thunderstorm appears on Janet Jackson's album, this trope is about to be invoked.
Though it's a lot more genteel than some of the other examples on here, ABBA's Andante, Andante sounds like an innocent slow dance song until you analyze its lyrics.
Make your fingers soft and light Let your body be the velvet of the night I am your music and I am your song Play me time and time again and make me strong Make me sing, make me sound Tread lightly on my ground
Nelly Furtado's song "Promiscuous" is pretty straightforward. "Maneater", though, she claims to be as much about the demands of modern life as sex. "Say It Right" seems just like a love song, but then comes the last lines: "From my body I could show you a place God knows/You should know the space is holy/Do you really want to go?".
And many more songs, including the bluntly titled "Sex With Me." For instance, "Only Girl (In The World)" has a very suggestive chorus:
Want you to make me feel like I'm the only girl in the world Like I'm the only one that you'll ever love Like I'm the only one who knows your heart Only girl in the world... Like I'm the only one that's in command Cuz I'm the only one who understands how to make you feel like a man
Her single "What's My Name" is similarly blatant, but one line in particular stands out...
Every door you enter I will let you in
"Roc Me Out" is sex from the first second to the last.
Come over boy I'm so ready / You're taking too long to get my head on the ground / And my feet in the clouds, oh, oh / I'm so clean feelin' so dirty / Come right now you better hurry / Boy, you miss out / And I'll finish it off, oh, yeah
"Rude Boy" doesn't throw out subtlety as much as utterly annihilating it.
One Direction's "Live While We're Young" is far from subtle in its expression of a young man's attempt to get a girl he's just met to put out. This in turn brought about some backlash on account of the band's primary fanbase.
"Your Body is a Wonderland" by John Mayer. It's a little disconcerting to hear it on the kind of radio stations that appear to be standard issue for the dentist's office. Once again: cheery music lets you get away with a lot.
In this vein, we also have Canadian pop group B4-4's single, "Get Down". It's best to see it in its full glory.
There was an interview with John Mayer where he claimed to want to write a song called "Girl, I Wanna Fuck You, Girl", with lyrics like "There will be no remorse, we are gonna have intercourse."
"Afternoon Delight" by The Starland Vocal Band. At least two shows (Arrested Development and Glee) have taken advantage of its Lyrical Dissonance to lead to Hilarity Ensues moments. In Arrested Development, Michael and his teenage niece sing it as a karaoke duet; in Glee, it's sung by the Celibacy Club (justified in that Emma thinks the song is about a dessert). In the first, the singers realize what the song is about when they're halfway through singing it, while in the second, Emma only realizes what the song is about when sex ed-savvy Holly Holiday points it out to her.
"Sky rockets in flight! Afternoon delight!" Harmless elevator music, until you actually listen to the lyrics.
Word of God stated that it was actually about Washington, D.C. restaurant Clyde's. Now whether one believes that or not...
Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young" is really about wanting to take a girl's cherry. Particularly with lyrics like: "Come out Virginia, don't let me wait, you Catholic girls start much too late." (As Joel himself pointed out, this is a subversion. Virginia ultimately turns the singer down.)
"I Drove All Night" (originally by Roy Orbison and later also covered by Céline Dion) is about an unannounced long-haul booty call. It's also as thunderously rockin' as Cyndi gets, making it perfect mood music for said tryst.
Ashlee Simpson's "(You Make Me Wanna) La La"; its presence in Elite Beat Agents somehow didn't earn the game a Teen rating. The images made the theme even more obvious.
Glamm featuring Pete Burns - "Sex Drive", obviously.
Dead Or Alive (the band Pete was the frontman of for many years) used this a lot. As noted above, "You Spin Me Round" is about sex. The songs on their first album were actually much more blatant than their later 80s releases: "What I Want", "You Make Me Wanna", "Far Too Hard" (which includes the lyric "Men should never make it with their own reflection"), and a cover of "That's The Way I Like It". They started getting blatant again in the '90s.
There was a more explicit cover of YSMR, with the line "open up your fucking mouth, watch out here I cum".
"In the Closet" is just as suggestive, if not moreso. As if the lyrics aren't enough, the video makes the message clear Definitely NSFW/school/young children.
"The Way You Make Me Feel" has "You really turn me on".
Then there's "The Lady In My Life". Pretty much all of it.
George Michael's (in)famous first solo hit, "I Want Your Sex".
But it, like "Let's Talk About Sex", is also a subversion. George was actually writing an anthem dedicated to monogamy and The Power of Love. From the lyrics: "Sex is something we should do, sex is something for me and you. [...] Sex is best when it's one on one."
His song "Faith" (later covered by Limp Bizkit), is about a man who turns down sex because he's "waiting for something more".
Others that fit this trope include "Too Funky" from Red Hot And Dance, "Freeek!", "Fastlove", and "Outside".
From his Wham! days: "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go."
Guess what the Spice Girls' "2 Become 1" was really about. There's even a line about using a condom thrown in there for good measure!
"Be a little bit wiser, baby / Put it on, put it on"
Amusingly, only the line "Boys and girls go good together" was edited for the teenybopper set, replaced with "Love will bring us back together".
The Other Wiki reckons that line was actually changed for being homophobic (although really it's more heteronormative). When the album was recorded, it wasn't known how big a gay following the group would get.
Similarly, "Wannabe"'s line "Zig-A-Zig-Ahhh" is actually not a bad piece of onomatopoeia. It's a word the group made up while recording the song.
Other songs include "Last Time Lover", "Bumper to Bumper", "Holler", "Get Down With Me", and "If You Wanna Have Some Fun".
Taylor Swift's "Sparks Fly" is quite likely this, what with such lyrics as "You touch me once and it's really something. You find I'm even better than you imagined I would be" and the entirety of the bridge ("I'll run my fingers through your hair and watch the lights go wild. Just keep on keeping your eyes on me, it's just wrong enough to make it feel right and lead me up the staircase. Won't you whisper soft and slow, I'm captivated by you baby like a fireworks show"). This coming from someone who's often bashed for being a Purity Sue...
She gets more explicit on reputation with "Dress" and on Lover with "False God", both of which are also soaked in Les Yay.
The Divinyls' "I Touch Myself" is, like "She Bop", about a "solo effort". One Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode had Buffy reveal she spent most of one summer in her room listening to it, and then admitting she had no idea what it meantat the time (or at least claims not to have known). Incidentally, the band insists "Touch Myself" is not about masturbation, but touching other parts of yourself in a loving way. Since lead singer Chrissy Amphlett's death in 2013, it has been repurposed as a song to raise up breast cancer awareness.
Another Divinyls example: "Pleasure and Pain".
Madonna, of course, had a lot of these in her early career:
Do you wanna see me down on my knees Or bending over backwards now would you be pleased? Unlike the others I'd do anything I'm not the same, I have no shame, I'm on fire
"Justify My Love", from The Immaculate Collection was an ode to lust so racy (or terrifying) that the video was not broadcast on TV in many countries, unless late at night.
About half of the Bedtime Stories album is straight-up porn music. Complete with heavy breathing.
"Where Life Begins" is six minutes of sneaky and not-so-sneaky innuendo about cunnilingus.
Her unreleased song "Liquid Love" was recorded during the Music sessions.
"Lady Marmalade" is about a Creole prostitute from New Orleans. And the chorus is "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?" which means "Would you like to sleep with me tonight?" with the nuance of being in formal language.
Britney Spears' "If U Seek Amy." The actual lyrics are a bit nonsensical, but phonetically not terribly subtle (which explains why a lot of radio versions either remove the "ek" from "If You Seek" to dull the sexual meaning, or, in the case of the UK, completely remove the "If You Seek" part and rename the song "Amy"). The song made the news thanks to the PTC catching on. Not only did they spell it out (so to speak) for a surprising number of people who wouldn't have otherwise noticed, it seems all of Britney's not-hidden lyrics about sex are okay. Nice one, PTC.
The video starts and ends with a faux newscast that makes it as obvious as possible. That newscaster is actually a poor imitation of Megyn Kelly, Fox News talking head and also one of those who felt compelled to point out the phonetic pun.
Besides the point that the majority of her songs on her fourth, fifth and seventh albums were extremely sexual, with titles like "Get Naked" and "Touch Of My Hand". It would be better to list the ones which aren't sexual (if any exist at all) then are.
There is also "If You See Kay", a 1982 rock song by April Wine, and another song by that name, a 2009 ballad by The Script.
It's surprising how many people still don't realize "Who Let The Dogs Out" by Baha Men is about sex. (Given that the Baha Men were covering another, much more earthy, artist's song for a children's movie where dogs were literally let loose, this isn't completely shocking that somewhere along the line, the sexuality was lost.)
Jason Mraz's "Geek in the Pink": I can save you from unoriginal dum-dums/Who wouldn't care if you com...plete them or not. Also, think about "in the pink" for a second.
See also "Butterfly": "I went home, and I thought, 'I'm going to see if I can't write a song that a young woman would want to model her shoes to.'"
Also by Mraz, "Clockwatching". Hell, I could write out every lyric in the song and none of it would be unnecessary for an example.
*NSYNC's "Digital Get Down" wasn't fooling anyone at all about its subject matter. It didn't help that when they performed it live, JC Chasez (who also wrote it) would mime licking the stage.
"Let's Make a Night to Remember" by Bryan Adams is rather blunt, even for a song in this category. And he loves pointing out that "Summer of 69" isn't about a year. Although the song's co-writer Jim Vallance said it is, and Adams just improvised the "me and my baby in a 69" line at the end of song. Still, that line's part of the song now, so yeah... (But seriously, what high-school student hasn't stifled a laugh at the mention of the number 69?) And there's "The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You".
"Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" by Samantha Fox.
And "Naughty Girls Need Love, Too", to an extent. Fox is All Women Are Lustful incarnate.
Barry Manilow has quite a few songs that fall under this trope, ranging from the relatively subtle "Let's Take All Night To Say Goodbye" to the blatantly obvious "I Wanna Do It With You".
"I Believe You," originally by Dorothy Moore and later covered by Carpenters:
I believe you when you say you'll fill my body with your soul And love will grow into a brown-eyed ["freckled" in the Carpenters version] little girl who looks like we do Baby I believe you
Karen Carpenter's aborted solo album, recorded in 1979-80 but unreleased until 1996 (13 years after her death), also includes songs called "Makin' Love in the Afternoon" (featuring guest vocals by Peter Cetera) and "Remember When Lovin' Took All Night." This being Karen Carpenter, they're still tasteful and tender, not raunchy.
Sandra Lauer/Cretu's In the Heat of the Night. The lyrics imply the narrator's willing and total surrender in losing her innocence from the man's seduction with a strong touch of Deal with the Devil ("You lose your heart and sell your soul, it's much too late to leave the trade"); Or just simply, The Oldest Profession.
Not surprising considering about 2/3 of her role on her ex-husband Michael Cretu's Enigma project consisted of heavy breathing. Also the lyrics to "Mea Culpa" are pretty blatant (the song is essentially an aggressive come-on from a hardcore submissive), not to mention French.
Their later Black and Blue album had the even less subtle "Shining Star," which went so far as to include lyrics like "Cause you know what to do to turn me on."
Jordan Knight's "Give it to You" features a ton of Double Entendre, including "anyone can make you sweat, but I can keep you wet."
Let us be one and let's begin / A mistake that turns into perfection / I want to see you sliding in my underworld (underwear?) / This time I plan to let you win / Be a victim of my own invention / Let us be one and let's begin, once and for all
"Whenever, Wherever" isn't that dirty, but has these lines:
Lucky that my lips not only mumble / They spill kisses like a fountain/ Lucky that my breasts are small and humble / So you don't confuse them with mountains
"Underneath Your Clothes":
Underneath your clothes / There's an endless story / There's the man I choose / There's my territory / And all the things I deserve / For being such a good girl, honey
Avril Lavigne's "Things I'll Never Say" is about marriage... and all its perks. 'If I could say what I want to say, I'd say I want to blow you... away. Be with you every night. Am I squeezing you too tight? If I could say what I want to see, I want to see you go down... on one knee.' Lavigne also runs the words 'on one knee' together just enough that they could be misheard as 'o-on me'.
Also "Fever" and "Strut" both by Adam Lambert are good examples. So is "Glamorize".
She Wants Revenge loves this. Almost-public masturbation with a popsicle? Blatant and shameless groping of someone else's SO? Getting the crap beaten out of you by Shirley Manson? And that's just two songs...
Sister deserves special mention.
Wynter Gordon's "Dirty Talk" is quite possibly one of the least subtle examples listed here. This song does not just say "to hell with subtlety", it takes the very concept of subtlety, crushes it, nukes it, and pours salt over it so it can never go back to normal. The chorus being sung in an almost orgasm-like falsetto, the lyrics listing various fetishes - Wynter herself said that she and writer Nicole Morier used a "sex dictionary" to write the lyrics, and the sound of a woman moaning in the pre-hook really don't help. Case in point...
I am no angel I like it when you do that stuff to me I am no angel I like it when you talk, dirty when you talk (dirty talk)
Roughly half of Chromeo's discography is about this and that. With song titles like "Needy Girl", "Don't Turn the Lights On", "Bonafied Lovin'" and "Come Alive"note Which was featured completely uncensored in Forza Horizon 2, by the way., they either play with subtlety or just kick it in the balls.
a-ha's song "I Call Your Name" is about a young couple's simple marriage ceremony, followed by a very passionate honeymoon.
When she moved her hips and swayed in my direction / I thought we could make it yet and beat the isolation / but in that gentle dark... man, we tore ourselves apart!
Latin-American example: "Luna de miel" by Virus features a guy jerking off as he imagines himself and his significant other doing their best to have sex before they can be caught by the SO's family.
Virus's lyrics are full of this. "Pronta entrega" has the singer express that he can be stimulated with music and alcohol, but he gets WAY more excited when he's with his lover.
Eighty percent of Virus' songs are this. "El Probador" is about a girl and a store assistant having quick sex in a fitting room.
Wadu wadu is from the POV of a guy with a Workaholic girlfriend who wants to take her to dance and then have sex so she will take a break. For these songs the group was heavily criticised in the post-dictatorship Argentina of The '80s, since they were accused of being hedonistic and shallow.
Soda Stereo, a group whose first album was produced by Virus's Federico Moura, took more than one leaf from their books. Juego de Seduccion is about the narrator telling his girlfriend that they should have some kinky sexual roleplaying (including Mistress and Servant Boy and rape fantasies among others) and Persiana Americana is from the POV of a peeping tom who watches his pretty neighbor undress while wondering if she's leading him on.
Amistades Peligrosas, a "satanic" Spanish pop group, had several songs on this topic, most famously "Me Haces Tanto Bien".
Auto Ruta (Feel the Skin) by Chilean group La Ley is about a guy picking up and having sex with a beautiful hooker. The rather explicit video (which was banned on MTV) makes it even clearer.
Love me, love me, it's the way you love me Touch me, touch me, it's the way you touch me Fuck me, fuck me, it's the way you fuck me The way you love me baby has got me goin' crazy
This little gem:
Yeah, that's me, that's where you wanna be I got the kind of pussy that'll keep you off the streets
The Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited" and "Slow Hand".
The Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow".
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" was written by fifteen-year-old Carole King.
Sneaker Pimps. We have: "Roll On", "Sick", "Bloodsport" and "The Fuel", to start with.
IAMX has: "The Alternative", "Spit It Out", "My Secret Friend", "Kiss + Swallow", "Sailor", "Mercy", "You Stick It In Me", "Skin Vision", "Missile" and "Heatwave", and that's not even all of them.
Stacey Q. - "We Connect"(read: copulate or have intercourse)
To a lesser extent, "Two of Hearts".
Tira Black - "Push it In"
Maggie Reilly - "Everytime We Touch" (not Cascada's version):
A shooting star fell down to earth Lightning cracked the sky Something weird is happening Something I can't deny It's some kind of magic Running through my brain Feel I'm in heaven Or going insane
Whigfield - "When I Think Of You"
I need your body tonight I need you inside me tonight When I think of you, I feel like flying
"Untouched" by The Veronicas:
I go Ooh, Ooh You go Ah, Ah La la la la Ah la la la I can la la la la la la I wanna wanna wanna Get get get what I want, don't stop Gimme gimme gimme what'cha got got 'Cause I can't wait wait wait Any more more more more Don't even talk about the consequence 'Cause right now your the only thing that's making any sense to me
And "4ever".
C'mon baby, we ain't gonna live forever Lemme show you all the things that we could do You know you wanna be together, And I wanna spend the night with you Yeah yeah, with you-ou, yeah yeah So come with me tonight, We can make the night last forever
Bonus irony points for having the exact same chord structure as P!nk's "U + Ur Hand" to transmit the exact opposite meaning. ("Keep your drink, just give me the money; it's just [Title Drop] tonight.")
"I Wanna Love You Forever" by Jessica Simpson. Though the Other Wiki calls it "a darkly bittersweet love ballad", some of the lines are quite... questionable:
Pour yourself all over me And I'll cherish every drop here on my knees
And:
I'm breathing for the next second I can feel you...loving me!
Exposé's "Point of No Return"(a euphemism for orgasm) and "Come Go With Me"(you can guess the meaning).
Capsule's "I Just Want to XXX You," a rather blunt song about hooking up at a club, complete with Sound-Effect Bleep.
Veronica Maggio's "Jag Kommer" (transl: I'm Coming). It's pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Made more obvious in the official video using overflowing champagne and other cues, while at the same time providing a lot of running for the alternate interpretation.
Jag kommer, jag kommer, jag kommer, jag kommer - Jag är nästan där (I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming - I'm almost there)
Also:
Du och jag nu Du snälla vänta, vänta, håll ut (You and me now You, please wait, wait, hold on)
Jackson Browne, although sometimes characterized as being on the lite side, has a few rather suggestive (or blatant, depending on your mindset) songs.
"Rosie" has a guy resorting to his hand when the moves he makes on a groupie fail.
"Redneck Friend" is his nickname for his penis in one song and he really wants to introduce the girl to his friend, who is an "eleven on a scale of ten".
"You Love the Thunder" has some pretty direct references.
Then there is "These Times You've Come". Does that one REALLY need an explanation?
Ian Anderson, leader of Jethro Tull, is quite the dirty old sod. "Kissing Willie", "Velvet Green", "Bungle in the Jungle", portions of "Thick as a Brick", and "Aqualung", which does not have any direct sex in it but is the story of a homeless pedophile watching little girls on a playground.
The character Aqualung also gets mentioned on the song "Cross-Eyed Mary", which is about a child prostitute.
"Oh my God, no exaggeration Boy, all this time was worth the waiting I just shed a tear, I am so unprepared You've got the finest architexture End of the rainbow looking treasure Such a sight to see, and it's all for me"
To be honest, the most obvious part of the song would definitely be the chorus:
"I wanna see your Peacock-cock-cock, your peacock-cock-cock."
It's basically her being annoyed that a guy hasn't shown her his dick yet.
"Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" uses the phrase "had a ménage à trois," or a threesome.
"Hummingbird Heartbeat" ("Spread my wings and make me fly / The taste of your honey is so sweet", anyone?)
"Birthday" ("So let me get you in your birthday suit / It's time to bring out the big balloons"). Also includes a very orgasmic moan of Happy Birthday.
"E.T." uses Alien Abduction metaphors for sex. ("Wanna feel your power / Stun me with your laser")
Simon Curtis has a song called "Flesh" which is very obviously about kinky sex. In fact a lot of his songs are this.
Vanessa Amorosi "A Little Love", "My House", "Touch Me" and "Off On My Kiss".
Kylie Minogue: "Getting Closer", "Too Much of a Good Thing", "Let's Get to It", "Do You Dare?", "Surrender", "Dangerous Game", "Password", "Physical", "More More More", "Fever", "Give It to Me", "Come into My World", "Boy", "No Better Love", "Secret (Take You Home)", "Sweet Music", "Red Blooded Woman", "After Dark", "Cruise Control", "Slo Motion", "Like a Drug", "Nu-dit-ty", "Heart Beat Rock", "All the Lovers", "Closer", "Too Much", "Cupid Boy", "Million Miles", "Sexy Love", "Sexercize", "Les Sex", "Kiss Me Once", "Mr. President"...
Dannii Minogue: "Baby Love", "True Lovers", "This Is It", "Tonight's Temptation", "Lucky Tonight", "Free Your Love", "Boogie Woogie", "All I Wanna Do", "Take Me Inside", "Put the Needle on It", "Creep", "Hey! (So What)", "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling", "Come and Get It", "Sex Dice", "Trip", "Touch Me Like That"...
Gwen Stefani has "Bubble Pop Electric", a song about lovemaking inside a car, and "Yummy", about banging groupies on the road while, among other things, telling them about her family.
It seems Gwen Stefani has a thing for cars, as her song "Crash" uses racing euphemisms for, well...
Drive back to me baby fast in your car I'm here waiting, crash into me real hard
Prince (before he found religion...again) reveled in this trope: It seemed like every one of his albums would contain at least one song full of paper-thin innuendo ("Let's Pretend We're Married", "Little Red Corvette", "Delirious", "Cream") and one song that pretty much stated "This is a song about fucking" ("Head", "Darling Nikki", "Lady Cab Driver", "Do Me, "Baby", "Erotic City"). And occasionally one that would be half-innuendo, half blatant description ("International Lover").
The "23 positions in a one night stand" line from "Gett Off". The entire song, actually.
"Weird Al" Yankovic's pastiche of Prince's style, "Wanna Be UR Lover", drops whatever subtlety Prince may have had and just runs with it. ("I hope I'm not bein' forward, but do you mind if I chew on your butt?") The song also contains, hands down, THE most raunchy line ever sung by Weird Al. ("I wanna be your Krakatoa, let my lava flow all over you.")
And though few notice it, he has another not-quite-as-raunchy line in the song "One More Minute" about masturbation - "I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love/ And I have to use the self-service pumps."
"Love to Love You Baby" by Donna Summer. That song is sex. Summer literally mimics an orgasm as she sings. And then there's "I Feel Love" from I Remember Yesterday and "Hot Stuff" from Bad Girls.
"Half The Way" by Crystal Gayle. You could, if you worked on it for a while, come up with a somewhat innocent interpretation of the song about a half-assed commitment to a relationship (which is what the relatively tame first verse sounds like it's about), but with lyrics like "Fill me up to the top / and don't stop / till I'm overflowing", it's pretty clear that the singer prefers to be left hot and sloppy, and her guy just isn't quite measuring up. The chorus makes it filthy blatant: he sucks in bed.
The complete chorus: "So fill me up/ to the top/ and don't stop/ till I'm overflowing/ love is the seed/ and babe I need/ you to keep it growing/ stronger every day/ Oh no, don't take me half the way..."
"Sex bomb, sex bomb, you're a sex bomb You can give it to me when I need to come along."
"Pyromania" by Cascada uses fire as a metaphor for sex. "Night Nurse" also has subtle references.
A Flock of Seagulls' "Say So Much" and "Love On Your Knees" from Dream Come True. Also "Burnin' Up" from The Light At The End Of The World.
"Angel of the Morning", written by Chip Taylor and made famous by Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts (and later by Juice Newton in the early 1980s), plays with this; the song isn't sexually explicit, but a song about a woman having her first one night stand and enjoying it wasn't exactly standard fare in 1968.
Captain & Tennille, despite their squeaky-clean image, included some sexiness with hits like "The Way I Want to Touch You," "Do That to Me One More Time," and especially the Neil Sedaka-penned "You Never Done It Like That," about a woman who's thrilled that her man has gotten much better under the sheets:
My mind is blowin', ooh, you never done it like that You've got me climbin' up the walls My love is growin', ooh, you never done it like that You know you've made me ten feet tall... Oh what a feelin', ooh, you never done it like that Not since I can't remember when I'm on the ceilin', hey, you never done it like that Looks like we got it on again
The "ten feet tall" lyric adds an additional dimension, given the song was written by a man.
An example from Spain: Locomia's Rumba Samba Mambo is really blatant about this, so much that it's a wonder it wasn't censored or anything. As roughly translated from the original Spanish lyrics:
"Pon tu mano en mi cuerpo y mi boca en tu piel" (Put your hand on my body, and your mouth on my skin) "Mira cómo me muevo, te vas a enloquecer" (Look at me as I move, you're gonna go mad) "Voy a beberme todo tu ser, hasta hacerte gritar de placer..." (I'll drink up all of you, until you scream in pleasure...)
"Some Like It Hot" by The Power Station. It might just be not only the funkiest example on here, but also the most Ear Wormiest.
"Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke. It couldn't be any more blatant, at least on the uncensored version ("I got something that will split your ass in two!").
"Mouth" by Merril Bainbridge.
The 5th Dimension's 1970s song "Love's Lines Angles and Rhymes" has the sultry voice of Maryln McCoo clearly describing her feelings that happen during sexual intercourse, plus the tempo of the song moves faster and faster to... ahem, the climax of the song.
Every other song by Bruno Mars is this. Three good examples are "The Lazy Song", "Locked Out of Heaven", and "Gorilla". His newest album, 24K Magic, has the titular song, "24K Magic", as well as "That's What I Like" and "Versace on The Floor".
His new single, "Please Me" ft. Cardi B, is a very good textbook example.
This Girl is a Woman Now, Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a man describing how he popped some girl's cherry. "A child had died/A woman had been born."
Young Girl, he discovers the girl he just banged is a minor and is really unhappy she didn't tell him first. He then tells her that she had best leave him alone and go home to her momma before he changes his mind and bangs her again.
Lady Willpower, if they don't have sex right now then they never will, it's time she stopped waiting, and she shouldn't be afraid to give him her love - and let him give her his - because he'll be tender with her.
A number of songs by Lady Gaga, but especially "Bad Romance" and "Poker Face".
And, oddly enough, "Christmas Tree". Yes, she wrote a dirty Christmas song.
"Come on Over Baby (All I Want is You)". The title gives away the whole plot.
"Dirrty".
"Nasty Naughty Boy" may be the winning candidate for the most sexual song ever written, containing moans, sultry commands to the titular boy, masochism, oral... it has it all. Case in point, delicious gems/subversions like "I'm so wet I'll be the first one to blow... your mind."
"Genie in a Bottle" is about the narrator turning down a guy's sexual advances with the demand he get to know her first before proceeding to do anything ("you gotta rub me the right way!"), even though she's having trouble resisting him as well. (so just imagine how much Disney had to Bowdlerise when they decided to make Dove Cameron cover the song!)
Aqua's "Barbie Girl" has some innuendo in it ("You can touch, you can play"), but it's not nearly as bad as "Bumble Bee", which is about a "flower" begging her "bee" to pollinate her even though the bee goes around "pollinating" other flowers as well. "Flowers and bees" is the Scandinavian expression for "birds and bees".
Velvet has a few, but "Fix Me" is the least subtle one.
Cascada: "Everytime We Touch" is rather lighthearted, but then there's "Because the Night" which is a tad bit more erotic with its message.
Yet another song about a solo effort, albeit much more recent, is "Love Myself" by Hailee Steinfeld, which it's about as blatant as a song can get on the radio, but could easily be mistaken for a self-empowerment anthem if one doesn't pay enough attention to the lyrics.
Tamaryn's "Hands All Over Me" is pretty straightforward. "Do everything that I like...lift me up, I'm holding you tight..."
"Step Right Up" by Sunset Strippers. "Step right up, hurry hurry / I'm yours tonight / Gonna be your baby".
"Cake by the Ocean" by DNCE. Joe Jonas, the leader of the band, has clarified that it means, you guessed it, "sex on the beach".
Very commonly used in the genre of Philippine novelty.
The Viva Hot Babes' song "Bulaklak" means "flower" in English, though the lyrics of the chorus curiously use a queen as euphemism for a penis.
Bubuka ang bulaklak / Papasok ang reyna / Sasayaw ng cha-cha / Ang saya-saya! (Filipino) The flower's gonna open / And the queen will enter / Gonna dance the cha-cha / So very happy! (English)
"Ibaon Mo Sa Limot" by Selina Sevilla figuratively means "Forget About It" in English, but she stresses the words "Ibaon mo" in the chorus. That literally translates to "Bury it", with "it" being the male sexual organ.
"Aray Naku" by Mae Rivera is, musically and in terms of the title, a Tagalog version of Timi Yuro's schmaltzy 1961 hit "I'm Hurt". But while Yuro sings about being emotionally hurt by a lying man, Rivera sings about the same feelings, albeit emphasizing the words in such a way it sounds like she was also physically hurt by the size of her man's schlong.
"How Bad Can a Good Girl Be?" Is poetic about it, but is entirely clear about the answer to its title question:
An ancient voice escaped my mouth And it screamed out in primal pleasure My spirit soul, my animal Came together in every measure Of life, of love Of flesh, of blood Of you
"Leave Me Lonely" has been mistaken for a Break-Up Song, but Word of God is clear that it's a song about a passion so intense that any separation at all leaves the singer feeling lonely.
Love me, hold me, don't leave me lonely Now take me, make me, baby don't break me
"Naked and Sacred" by Chynna Phillips.
"Make It With You" by Bread.
"Dangerous" by the Swedish Europop group DYCE drops all subtlety from the first verse:
Hush, baby I'm in the mood tonight Slide your clothes off We'll be alright We're moving slow, to rhythm so forever Dangerously close, we're falling together Lose control, time to go High, high, high
"Side to Side" ft. Nicki Minaj, is about getting nailed so hard you can barely walk.
"Into You" has this curious line:
A little less conversation and a little more touch my body
"God is a Woman" makes it clear (even more so in the video) that the night Ariana spends with the guy she's talking about will be nothing short of a religious experience:
Come harder just because / I don't like it, like it too soft / I like getting a little rough / not too much, but maybe just enough
Shawn Mendes's "Lights On" from Illuminate. Not something you'd expect from a guy who was only 18 when he released it, but that might be the point. He doesn't try to be subtle about it, either.
I like the vibe in this hotel room And I'd really like to get to know you Start discovering your secrets Underneath these very sheets
Meri Wilson's "Telephone Man" (and later "Internet Man") is full of sexual innuendo about getting a utility service man working on a household problem. Also "Peter the Meter Reader".
The Miracles' "Love Machine":
Chassis fits like a glove I've got a button for love That you've got to use (Push it, push it baby)
Jason Derulo has a few in his track record, such as "In My Head", "Want to Want Me" and "Talk Dirty".
"Don't You Need Somebody?" by Red One (ft. R City, Enrique Iglesias, Serayah & Shaggy)
"Miracles" by Jefferson Starship is a nearly perfect piece of 70s soft rock. It's also essentially a Penthouse Letter set to music. (Even if Grace Slick's attempt at a fake orgasm is anemic at best...)
"Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)" by Paul Lekakis is a late 1980s example.
Synthpop group Freezepop would later cover it in a medley with the already-mentioned "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom" by Vengaboys, under the title "7 Boom Medley": Both songs happen to have hooks that use "boom" as an Unusual Euphemism for sex and rhyme the word with "room".
"Get A Yes" by Sad13, though it tries to both be playful and sexy and deliver a serious message about Consent - "I say yes to the dress when I put it on / I say yes if I want you to take it off".
"Je t'aime... moi non plus" (translated: "I love you... me neither") by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, is so sexually explicit that it was denounced by the Pope himself. Most of the lyrics are not so much sung as they are moaned orgasmically, meant to represent two lovers talking to each other during sex. The famous chorus goes like this:
Je vais, je vais et je viens, entre tes reins. Translation: I go, I go and I come, in between your loins. (note that "come" has the same sexual double meaning in French as it does in English; moreover, "vais" and "viens" are different forms of the verbs in "va-et-vient", a common expression to describe the back-and-forth movements of sex)
Five's "When the Lights Go Out": "It's a blackout, girl, the lights are off / I can feel you getting closer / Now take your clothes off / Your body looks so soft / In between the sheets / I'll lay you down girl / I wanna knock your socks off"
Troye Sivan's "Bloom" — it doesn't take too much work to figure out in what way, exactly, "I bloom just for you."
B*Witched's hit "C'est la Vie!". If the lyrics weren't obvious enough, Word of God confirmed it was about having sex.
"Ding Dong Song" by Gunther is a ridiculous parody of these types of songs, as evidenced by its main chorus:
Ohhhh, you touch my tralala... Mmmm, my ding ding dong...
The Isley Brothers' "Between the Sheets".
Smokey Robinson's "Cruisin'".
Baby let's cruise, let's flow, let's glide Ooh, let's open up and go inside And if you want it, you got it forever I can just stay there inside you And love you baby
"You know me better than me Oh, you keep on making me say 'Oh, my, oh, my' Don't stop, just two words endlessly Whisper in your ear Take me so high (English translation)
Jung Kook's "Seven". The song has clean and explicit versions, but the subtext is clear even in the former.
Christian Castro's "Agua Nueva". The song is about getting lay and inviting the couple to refresh with the "new water" coming out from him.
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