Thinly-Veiled Sex Songs

Thursday, 07 October 2010 | by Pat's Picks

Not a lot of people can say a Captain and Tennille song led to an epiphany.

I?ve been complaining about how most of the chart-topping music this summer is unsuitable for family consumption. What father wants to hear his daughter and her friends singing Give it to me, baby like boom boom boom into their hairbrushes?

But then I walked into a store a week ago and heard Captain and Tennille on the radio. And as I listened closely to the lyrics of Do it to me one more time I realized my complaint about raunchy song lyrics isn’t just a new kids-these-days problem. Is Tennille?s plea more subtle that Rihanna?s “Rude Boy” lyrics? Standing in that store, there didn?t seem to be anything subtle about it.

Immediately, I started diving into my mental music catalog to come up with other titles that are innocently played on easy listening radio stations but are really just thinly-veiled songs about sex. With the help of Pat’s Papers producer Caitlin Drexler we present our walk down musical memory lane.

Below are ten classic songs about sex—you just might not have realized it. The 1980s seemed to be the nexus of the double entendre so we didn?t stray too far from the decade when making our selections. Somehow the songs don’t sound so bad when the lyrics are wrapped up in the music. But a closer examination of some of these gems might have you thinking twice before singing along in the bank lobby.

10. Olivia Newton John—“Physical”