What is considered risque in music these days

[Sensible Shoes]

......obviously the answer is "NOTHING"!!!!

I heard two songs back to back on the radio today. First, "Everybody wants some" (Yes we have a SERIOUSLY cool rock station here) and then "Something in your mouth". It made me laugh to think how tame VH sounds now. Remember when? Everybody wants some teehee oh some means "sex" and we really pulled one over on the censors!!!!!! Oh that Roth was just outRAGeous.

P.S. I like Nickelback.

[lesfunk]

I find Katy Perry to be subversive. She dresses up like a bubblegum pop princess in her videos (targeting her barely pubescent female audince) then sings about being cornholed and stuff. Scandalous!

[Sensible Shoes]

Where does she sing about being cornholed????I must have missed that. LIke I listen to her that much.

[lesfunk]

[Sensible Shoes]

But that's not Katy Perry

[lesfunk]

But it is funny

[Hardrock69]

This is considered risque. Fucking onstage during a Norwegian Music Festival:

http://img.chan4chan.com/img/2010-05-24/2758.jpg

[binnie]

Jane's Addiction said it best: 'Nothing's Shocking'.

I don't think this culture really gets 'risque' - to me, the great stuff was always tongue in cheek, a tease if you will. Today that subtely is gone: it's so in your face that it's crass.

Rihanna's 'Only Girl in the World' is a case in point. It aims for seductive and misses by a mile. As does the new song by Nicole Scherzinging (sp?) about her 'man putting it there'. I don't know what upsets me more: the fact that these songs are marketted primarily at CHILDREN; or the fact that they are so poorly written.

Pop music is an odd realm. You wouldn't let your 13 year old daughter date a 20-25 year old guy; but you will let her buy records where he sings about what he'd like to do to 'you' (the 'you' being the target audience).

[Coyote]

The level of subtlety does tell about someones level of intelligence, don't it?

[VAiN]

The level of subtlety does tell about someones level of intelligence, don't it?

Yes. And nickleback has none.

[Coyote]

Touché.

[twonabomber]

an old favorite.