History Main / ObligatoryBondageSong

** Granted, a ''lot'' of NIN songs have shades of this ("Closer," "Head Like a Hole," "Meet Your Master," etc.), though it's generally subverted because most of their OBS's usually mean something else completely. With [[IAmTheBand them]] it's more like "obligatory bondage ''video'', considering the music videos can get pretty...odd.

This is when IntercourseWithYou gets kinky, well, kinkier. BondageIsBad [[BoundAndGagged may]] or [[SafeSaneAndConsensual may not]] be invoked.

!!Examples

A music/lyrics trope. A SubTrope of {{Fanservice}}.

BondageIsBad [[BoundAndGagged may]] or [[SafeSaneAndConsensual may not]] be invoked.

A music/lyrics trope. Subtrope of {{Fanservice}}.

* "Whip It" by Music/{{Devo}}. Although this is arguably a result of MisaimedFandom. WordOfGod says it was actually meant as an inspirational song for UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter, president at the time, to "whip" American policy into shape. When it was a hit, people thought it was about S&M, which amused the band enough that they said, "[[AscendedFanon Sure, Why Not?]]" and made the [[NotableMusicVideos video]] feature literal whipping.

* "Happiness in Slavery" by Music/NineInchNails is another {{subver|tedTrope}}sion. The title (and the fact the terrifying music video stars S&M Performance Artist Bob Flanagan, as well as the music itself to some extent) makes you expect a bondage song, but in reality the song is about Trent's experiences with TVT Records.

* "Poison" and "Bed of nails" by Music/AliceCooper.

* "I Wanna Be Your Slave" by Music/{{Maneskin}}.

-->Get the rope, tie me to the bedpost
Because I can't find within myself the happy host
If I find my peace of mind, torture me

* "Torture Me" by Metric

** The Ginsaku Rin Kagamine song "Iroha Uta" opens up with a list of the various things the singer wants to be tied up with. The rest of the song is a touch more subtle, but the implications are still there. "Watashi no Inu" ("My Dog") and another Music/{{Vocaloid}} example. Also Buriru-P's Music/HatsuneMiku song "Doemu."

* The upbeat hit "Hurt So Good" by John Mellencamp.

* The title track of the album''Bang Goes the Knighthood'' by Music/TheDivineComedy approaches the subject with tongue planted firmly in cheek, from the perspective of a knighted man in high society who secretly visits a dominatrix for the thrill of it.

Bang goes the knighthood as well!

* "''Bang Goes the Knighthood''" by The Divine Comedy approaches the subject with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

** Over at Trent Reznor's other band Music/HowToDestroyAngels, "BBB" also has this vibe, with the "big black boots"-wearing narrator commanding someone ("Get down on the ground", "You do what you're told"), with the music itself having a sexual-feel to it. However, like previous Reznor-related examples it's about something else - being controled in a non-sexual manner.

* Shirley Manson was recruited to join Music/{{Garbage}} after Butch Vig saw the music video for her band Angelfish's obligatory ''asphyxiophilia'' song, "Suffocate Me." Some other songs on Angelfish's first album also qualify as Obligatory Bondage Songs, especially "Dogs in a Cage."

* "Sweet Sweet Gwendoline" by [[Music/DieArzte Die Ärzte]].

* "Under Pressure" by Music/ZZTop details the relationship of a man with a woman who clearly doesn't put much stock in SafeSaneAndConsensual, and mentions her love of "whips and chains" as a prominent aspect of why he's not happy. Other reasons include her taste for cocaine, a controlling and manipulative personality and even [[BestialityIsDepraved implied bestiality]]. The title can be taken both metaphorically, as his distress and lack of enjoyment clearly don't matter to her, and literally, with all the pain that entails. BondageIsBad is in full force, since the singer believes she's going to beat him within an inch of his life when he tells her he wants out. \\
* A sort of subversion is Rammstein's Mein Teil. The song itself is about that time a cannibal politely put out a classified add, and got a volunteer whose only condition was that the cannibal eat his penis first. But, since the German word "Teil" literally means "part", the video is about bondage which is ironically less [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] than the song's actual subject. The video is mostly Fanservice, referencing running jokes about the band members, though interviews with the band imply that some of the scenes were based on Lindemann's (the singer and lyricist) fantasies. The band played this trope relatively straight in Ich Will, although bondage is only one possible interpretation of the lyrics.

** Over at Trent Reznor's other band Music/HowToDestroyAngels, "BBB" also has this vibe, with the "big black boots"-wearing narrator commanding someone that they'll do they're told ("Get down on the ground"). However, like previous Reznor-related examples it's about something else - being controled in a non-sexual manner.

** Over at Reznor's other band Music/HowToDestroyAngels, "BBB" also has this vibe, with the "big black boots"-wearing narrator commanding someone that they'll do they're told.

* "Pain", by Music/ThreeDaysGrace is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin about exactly what you'd expect]]. This is one possible interpretation.

* "Sucker for Pain" from the film ''Film/SuicideSquad''

* "House of Wolves" by Music/MyChemicalRomance has shades of this, though they’re definitely too punk for this song to be UN-usual for them. Gerard [[LargeHam ramps up the preacher’s-sermon type lyrics]] [[NoIndoorVoice at the top of his lungs,]] and seems to [[EvilIsSexy revel in going to hell.]]

* "House of Wolves" by Music/MyChemicalRomance has shades of this, though they’re definitely too punk for this song to be UN-usual for them.