Science has proven what most people already know: Sex sells. Hobbs found that "approximately 92 percent of the songs that made it into the [Billboard] top 10 in contained reproductive messages. Lyrics were categorized in 18 reproductive themes, including "arousal," "sexual prowess" and "genitalia. There was an average of
It's time for the fourth instalment of 1, Songs Everyone Must Hear , our week-long series of supplements free with your copy of the Guardian and the Observer. Which also means that it's time, as Salt-n-Pepa would say, to talk about sex, baby. Forget drugs and rock'n'roll, sex has long been the primal driving force behind most popular music. Impressing the opposite sex has always been a key desire of aspiring musicians and "rocking and rolling" was a eupemism for sex long before it referred to music. But not all of you may feel satisfied, which is why we need you to tell us what's missing. List below the songs you think we should have included — and we'll put the ones with the highest number of recommendations in our final chart: Readers recommend Songs we forgot.
Billboard magazine each year releases a Top Hot songs of the year, counted from the first week of November to the final week in October. The video quickly received four million views in little over a week. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
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