Sexuality In Song Lyrics

Rock and roll and sex have always been inseparable bedmates. And it’s been no secret affair. Many musicians admit that they only learned how to sing or play an instrument so they could enjoy the fringe benefits of band membership. They don’t mind sharing the details of these fringe benefits in their lyrics, either. Some lyrics are blatantly explicit, while other lyrics hide their sexuality behind metaphors. Here are some lyrics that seem very suggestive—or maybe we just have dirty minds! 

“Brand New Key” by Melanie.(....I'm showing my age here....). 

Remember this novelty hit from the early 70s? Also known as “The Roller Skate Song,” there seemed to be plenty of innuendo in the lyrics, “I got a brand new pair of roller skates/You got a brand new key/I think that we should get together and try them out, you see.” Also, many listeners interpreted the lyrics “new key” as “nookie.” Although Melanie didn’t intentionally write sexually suggestive lyrics, she did admit that, “I guess a lock and key have always been Freudian symbols, and pretty obvious ones, at that.” 

“Knocking at Your Back Door” by Deep Purple 

The blatant title, which also makes its way into the song lyrics, needs no explanation. But the band wove more subtle suggestiveness into the lyrics, “So we put her on the hit list/Of a common cunning linguist/A master of many tongues.” If you don’t get it right away, quickly say the lyrics “cunning linguist” out loud several times. Oh, so that’s what he’s saying! The lyrics flew under the censor’s radar, and were played on numerous radio stations. According to the liner notes in the band’s Greatest Hits, they wrote the lyrics as a joke, and never expected the song to get any airplay. 

“Little Willy” by The Sweet. 

This incredibly catchy tune by glam band, The Sweet, initially drew critics’ scorn for its “nursery porn” lyrics, “Little Willy, Willy won’t go home/But you can’t push Willy ’round, Willy won’t go.” The song lyrics were supposedly inspired by late singer Brian Connolly’s nonstop nightclubbing. Since “willy” is also British slang for a man’s you-know-what, there’s also speculation that the lyrics regard that organ’s endless desire for satisfaction. In any case, the song and its lyrics ignited a succession of 14 hit singles, including 11 chart-toppers. 


"Cherrie Pie" by Warrant.

The lyrics of “Cherry Pie” are filled with so many humorous sexual metaphors, where do we begin?

Well, here are a few of those lyrics: “She wanted me to feed her/So I mixed up the batter/And she licked the beater,” “If I think about baseball/I’ll swing all night,” and “Tastes so good/Make a grown man cry/Sweet cherry pie.” Singer Jani Lane wrote the song’s music and lyrics on a pizza box in 15 minutes. Talk about a quickie! 

“Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel 

Influenced by sexually suggestive soul music lyrics, the lyrics of “Sledgehammer” are loaded with innuendo. In addition to “I want to be your sledgehammer,” the lyrics refer to steam trains, bumper cars, pollination, fruit, bees and a big dipper. Regarding the lyrics, Gabriel said, “Sometimes sex can break through barriers when other forms of communication are not working too well.” 

That theory may work well in song lyrics, but it’s a line that might backfire if you’re trying to pick up someone in a bar! 


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Record Companies

Music is art, but to record companies, it’s about money. Keep in mind that it’s a business. Keep in mind everyone is out to make money. The minute people believe that you will not make money for them, you will be dropped and these same people will turn to seek other new artists that they believe will make them money. Unfortunately, the record business doesn’t believe in grooming people. If your first CD isn’t a success, you are out. There are rarely second chances. There are always other talented people behind you who what their shot at fame.

Most major retailers such as Tower records will not carry a CD unless the record has a distributor. A strong distributor ensures that your CD will be available in enough places so your CD will sell to ultimately make money. Major labels use large distributors who are better able to get record stores stocked. After years of consolidation, there are only 5 major national wholesale distributors in the US who are owned by conglomerates who also own major record labels. They are  BMG (distributes Arista, BMG and RCA), EMI (distributes Capital and Virg.), Sony Music (distributes Columbia, Epic and Sony), Universal Music Group (distributes Interscope, Island/Def Jam, and MCA) and WEA (distributes Atlantic, Elektra and Warner Bros.)

Distribution via the Internet Record labels and artists are increasingly using the web to distribute their music, however, unknown artists will still have to work hard to get the buzz going about their music. Ultimately, signing a contract with a major record label is the way to go. The major record labels have the financial muscle and people to give you a good shot at becoming famous.

Let’s face it. It’s all about money! Yes, the entertainment industry seems fun and exciting, but people are in it to make money. As an artist the most important contract in the music industry is the record contract. The royalty is a portion of money from record sales paid to the artist for his/her music. The record contract which is a negotiated legal agreement between the record label and artist will state how much royalty an artist is entitled to among other things.

When money is made for the record sales, these costs are deducted from the artist’s royalties. This is called re-coupment. Therefore, if the artist’s record isn’t successful, the artist may never see a dime. If the royalties are less than the deductions, they artists may well owe the record company money by being in the red! This negative cost maybe carried over to the next album release. A good record contract will not allow a negative cost from one album to be carried over to another album (cross collateralization). If there isn’t another album the record company generally eats the loss.

There are many other costs that the record company will not charge the artists. This includes marketing and in-house promotions (free CD give away, etc.)..

Of course because of the Internet, the rules royalties are changing. Many people now buy their music via the Internet. Just think, no packaging required and no distribution to traditional retail stores needed. Some websites allow customers to buy individual songs as oppose to an album. Changes are currently taking place on how royalties are calculated because of the Internet. Many attorneys are pushing to have royalties be based on each song sold as oppose to each album sold. So stay tuned!

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Musicians! It's 2010. Join The Program.

One way that musicians and bands can supplement their income is to have a blog. They are surprisingly effective if carried out properly and professionally. All you need is a laptop, be it be a rental or otherwise and a little time on your hands. No additional software is required.  You can drive traffic to your blog in numerous ways. 



I shall discuss here what I consider to be the most effective and (probably) obvious ones. I won't cover the basics as you already know them but there are some points that I'd like to share with you. I do hope that you find them both interesting and helpful.


How much traffic you want can vary. If you want to make money blogging you need traffic in millions of page visits. A percentage of those (outrageously small) will either click your ads or buy your products. Having said this however, even if you don’t blog for money you still need traffic to come to your blog. From the traffic you get comments and potentially more traffic.


To get traffic to your blog, people have to know about you. You need to get indexed by Google to get organic traffic and there are countless articles which show you how to do that, using strategic linking so I won’t go into this through fear of confusing you with my own 'organised chaos' routine.


Practically every entrepreneur I meet these days is on Facebook. With over 62 million users and a 'sharing' popularity which has just surpassed 35% of the market, Facebook can’t be ignored for exposure and driving traffic. I have been on Facebook for some time and for a while I’ve hesitated at putting my business/music activities on my personal Facebook profile. After more than a little humouring, research and great advice (very important if you're serious) I set up a Facebook Fan page for my musical endeavours and it has reached almost 1,500 signed-up members in 12 months. No other sharing or comercial music site has come even close to this rapid increase. Facebook Fan Pages are pages you set up for your business profile. Fan Pages allow for great interaction between members and Page owners, a great if not the best business asset.



Personal Pages have a limit of 5, 000 friends whereas Fan Pages have no such limits. They are completely separate from profile pages, so you can keep the two separate if you wish.


You can import your blog posts with RSS and a lot more. If you want exposure and potential traffic for your blog Facebook Fan Pages are worth a second look. They are also indexed by Google. Keeping ones' Fan Page Wall updated with fresh content is of key importance.


Through Twitter I inadvertantly discovered Mari Smith. Mari has published an excellent article (in fact several articles) on her blog Why Facebook? She also has an excellent video tutorial on how to set up Facebook Fan Pages. They are completely separate from profile pages, so you can keep the two separate. You can import your blog posts with RSS and a lot more. If you want exposure and potential traffic for your blog Facebook Fan Pages are worth a second look. They are also indexed by Google.


For driving traffic to your blog Twitter gets a definite thumbs up. After initial reservations, Twitter traffic to my blog has increased exponentially. Twitter is fast becoming my second biggest source of referral traffic. On Twitter you register and select people to follow. After a while people will follow you and it grows from there. It does fluctuate and I have observed that having too many niche markets isn't the way to go. I'd suggest two or three and certainly no more that four, unless you have a system that pays your wage (yes, they do exist) while you're busy keeping people in each niche updated with exciting content. Irrespective, you will soon create an audience, or audiences, interested in what you have to say.


To use Twitter effectively, however, (in fact any Social Networking Site) sharing useful information, resources, networking, and aiming to build relationships are the key things to keep in mind. It does require patience and work. If you only ever tweet your own stuff, people will be less than impressed and you won’t gain much.


Find and share information in your niche or niches and jump into the conversations and it becomes a two-way street. I am slowly (and predictably) finding that that people don't fall for the "get-this-free" routine. I am, however, finding that people are much more interested in a venture that is new, unique, and accessible to them for a discounted price, in favour of gimmics.


Whenever you do a new blog post, you can "tweet" about it on Twitter – giving you more exposure and traffic over time. You can even have your posts re-tweeted if someone finds them interesting enough and wants to share with their own followers. It's imperative to let people know what you're tweeting about. Just putting the link or TinyUrl isn't particularly enticing. Be inventive. We all need relevance and continuity. I make a distinct point of using hashtags for my music-related tweets. My other tweets are generally humorous, off -the-wall one-liners that do pertain to what is 'behind' my tweet, ie: what one can (almost) expect.



Driving and increasing traffic to your blog is part of marketing your blog. If you don’t market it, it doesn’t matter how good it is, no one will know you exist. So if you’re not blogging, get out there and introduce yourself.


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Musicians Can't Force Fans To Buy Their Music

Flying in the face of the widespread notion amongst a large majority of musicians I am not doing the world a favour by making my music available to listen to. I am making it available to listen to as, firstly, I enjoy creating it immensely. Secondly I would like to think that someone out there somewhere might get a kick out of it and it may brighten their day, take their mind off unpleasantries or give someone some food for thought or discussion. Thirdly, there is nothing more that I can do with it.


Having put my music here, there and everywhere for the above reasons, at the end of the day the choice is yours as to whether you decide to listen to it or not. It doesn’t take hours of listening to figure out whether you dig someones’ music or not.


The next choice that is yours is if you decide that you like a particular artists work enough to follow their progress then it is easy enough to follow them. If you decide that you like my genre of music then the form immediately below places you on my mailing list thus enabling me to immediately notify you of a current release.


Hopefully you are not swayed by glossy posters expensive advertising campaigns and the likes. Keith Richards oft-quoted view on music is, "Pass it on." I like to take his perspective on music one step further, particularly with regard to my own personal musical road and add, "Nothing is weird." I choose to record the genre of music that I do, that’s all. It’s you who make the choice as to whether you dig it or not.