What Makes a Song Sexy?

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Author Courtney Smith joins to offer her expertise on an urgent topic in advance of Valentine's Day: Can we abstract the sexiest songs of all time into a universal list of arousing musical qualities? We try our best by examining five decades of pop sexiness, discovering lyrical lingerie, and consider the most (and least) seductive instruments. Featuring: Nina Simone - I Want Some Sugar in My Bowl Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby INXS - Need You Tonight Portishead - Glory Box Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire The Weeknd - Often Check out Courtney's article Let's Talk About Sex, Baby: Every Trick You Need to Seduce Someone with a Playlist on Refinery29 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First, sweet tarts dare to combine sweet and tart, but they didn't stop there.
0:06.0	Now they've combined soft and bouncy to bring you new sweet tarts, gummy fruity splits.
0:12.0	A uniquely delicious dual-sided gummy with one side that's sweet, and the other side that's tart.
0:19.0	But entirely smooth and squishy.
0:22.0	A powerfully perfect combo.
0:24.0	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:30.0	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:33.0	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:37.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:41.0	I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:44.0	And I'm a songwriter, Charlie Harding.
0:46.0	And we are very excited.
0:47.0	We have a special guest joining us.
0:49.0	Hi, I'm Courtney Smith.
0:51.0	I'm the Music Critic for Refighter E29 and the author of the book called Record Collecting for Girls.
0:57.0	Right now I'm most interested in exploring feminism and women's point of view in music.
1:04.0	And she has a piece that feels very relevant because we're about a week out from Valentine's Day.
1:12.0	And Courtney is writing about what makes a song sexy.
1:17.0	Ooh, Courtney, welcome to Switched On Pop.
1:20.0	Thank you so much for having me.
1:22.0	This is such an essential topic.
1:25.0	I can't believe we haven't covered it yet.
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