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Kylie is shocked, shocked! Australian pop singer and possessor of one of the world’s finest rear ends, Kylie Minogue, says she is shocked and aghast at the amount of sex in today’s pop culture.
I am rather partial to the Aussie songstress, so I won’t be cruel but, bejeesus, on what planet has the lovely lass been residing these past few years? A convent? Ever since the days of Jazz, Blues and the rest, sex and All That has been central to pop music. That is why the ‘moral’ scolds are always against it.
Oh well, next we will be hearing from the Pope on how he is shocked at how Christianity has got too much stuff about miracles and Jesus in it. Or how there is too much contemplating of violence in the armed forces.
Kylie strikes a demure pose to discourse on sex, of all things!
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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!!!
Jelly roll – this refers to sex during which the womam orgasms and produces enhahaced lubricity.