Results for “Slick Rick”

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Slick Rick

Slick Rick delivers a first-person account of incarceration that trades his usual playful storytelling voice for something…

incarceration and confinement violence and survival extortion and hierarchy

Boogie Down Productions

This is a comedic-narrative shock track built around a single pun: the word "good" swings between sexual bravado and grim irony…

sexual bravado and its consequences statutory rape played for shock comedy reversal and poetic justice

Steely Dan

A portrait of a man consumed by amphetamine addiction, told at a cool remove through a narrator warning a woman close to him to…

addiction denial warning/escape

The Temptations

A mid-80s Temptations single that reworks old-fashioned courtship etiquette into a slick, upbeat pitch. The narrator presents…

chivalry and gender roles nostalgia for traditional courtship masculine self-presentation

Stevie Wonder

A slick mid-80s dance-pop track built around the mechanics of a secret affair, complete with coded signals and cover stories.…

infidelity and secrecy coded communication double standards in relationships

David Bowie

A slick, danceable reassurance song that keeps promising a golden future while its imagery quietly fills with panic and…

reassurance versus doubt fame and its instability escape and flight