I think I'm right in saying that 'jazz' was actually black slang for sperm. And there's also that mysterious 'snuff juice rising' in the old blues song 'Wang Dang Doodle all night long'.

"It's a big step backwards," she said. "I'm just lying there and not doing anything exciting...."

Eewww.

It's about visuals rather than lyrical innuendo and general musical raunch. Sexual imagery is a more potent force, and it does seem that a lot of popsters have lost the idea of things having a time and place for everything.

A slightly worrying trend, given how excess has historically induced backlash. Please guys, a little discretion is better than a lot of repression.

Jazz was slang for bonking. Jazz got going mainly in brothels, as in-house entertainment.

I think Kylie is on the same subject as the story on the wires today saying that lurve, once the staple subject of pop songs, has been eclipsed by sex as the most popular theme of lyrics.

It's not at all clear to me that the relationship between sex and popular culture is analogous to the relationship between violence and the military or Jesus and Christianity. I know you're just being facetious, but still. You're also illustrating a point.

It's entirely possible to have popular culture absent coarse sexual imagery. It's been that way as recently as a few decades ago. I can't say that Christianity is comprehensible sans Christ, or that the military could be, um, a military sans battle plans. I'm sure that popular music could somehow manage to muddle through without B. Spears' ass waving in front of the camera.

Not that I'm a "moral scold." Just sayin'.

Ever since Tim Blair referred to Kylie as a "helium-voiced songstress", I haven't been able to take her seriously.

You might also want to look up the slang meaning of “Jelly Roll” too. I wonder how “Jelly Roll” Morton got that nickname.

Any got suger in their bowl? Or need a hot dog in a roll? Yeah, this stuff goes a way back, Kylie.

You mean she sings as well?

Because of his piano playing perhaps?

Eamon

Chill. Laughably hypocritical profound pronouncements are as much part of the standard Pop Star thing, as are hard drugs, arrogance, and miming to tape. Situation normal.

I just wanted an excuse to put a pic of Kylie on the site. Mission accomplished.

Coming soon - a gratuitous post on Salma Hayek!

What a stupid cow...yeesh. Talk about a total hypocrite. She is trend jumping attention-hungry ditz. Recently she said she had a breakdown from all the pressure. Well who is responsible for all the pressure? She is...

That's gotta be some sort of joke.

Although I agree with Kim--its not like you can really take her seriously.

But please, do put up the Salma Hayek pics.

Maybe her real objection is "too much sex in pop culture, not enough sex in Kylie Minogue"?

Have a sex life now!!!