Results for “absurdist eroticism”

Songs

Wet Dream

Wet Leg

Wet Leg turn a would-be seduction scenario into deadpan slapstick, deflating male fantasy with flat delivery and absurd imagery.…

deflated male fantasy female detachment and mockery absurdist eroticism

What You Need

The Fall

A repetitive call-and-response built around the phrase "what you need" turns consumerist advice-giving into an absurdist litany,…

consumerism and commodification absurdist list-making working-class drudgery

Make Some Noise

Beastie Boys

This is the Beastie Boys doing what they do best: rapid-fire boasting, absurdist non sequiturs, and a chant-along hook, all…

comeback/reassertion braggadocio as comedy collective unity vs individual ego

Must Be Santa

Bob Dylan

Dylan's version of the polka novelty song plays it almost entirely straight as a call-and-response Christmas romp, building…

holiday tradition Americana kitsch absurdist humor

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

Dylan turns a real Mississippi highway into a corridor where biblical myth, seedy commerce, and apocalyptic farce all converge.…

American mythology and violence commodification and exploitation absurdist apocalypse

Super Cool

Beck

This is Beck's contribution to a kids'-movie soundtrack, and it plays as a gleeful parody of hype-song conventions: an avalanche…

parody of hype culture empty superlatives absurdist humor

Honey Bee

Tom Petty

This is Tom Petty in full blues-rock costume, cranking up a swaggering come-on riff with lyrics so absurd they tip into parody.…

parody of blues machismo sexual bravado as performance absurdist humor

Planet Queen

T. Rex

A glam-rock incantation that fuses science-fiction imagery with erotic obsession, built almost entirely from repeated, dreamlike…

cosmic eroticism obsession and surrender dream logic

One Beer

MF DOOM

A boozy, freewheeling posse-cut of a track built on the pun of "one beer" doubling as "one beer left" and a coded jab at fake…

intoxication as metaphor for scarcity/competition hip-hop authenticity vs. imitation supervillain persona

Blue Money

Van Morrison

A buoyant, playful song built around a photo shoot, where the singer coaxes a model through poses while imagining the payday and…

playful eroticism work as flirtation material pleasure

Crazy Love, Vol. II

Paul Simon

A woozy, deliberately flat account of a marriage falling apart, narrated through a comic-surreal alter ego who claims total…

emotional numbness as defense marital breakdown denial and detachment

Doughnut for a Snowman

Guided by Voices

A brief, dreamlike sketch of a girl's day rendered in candy-colored Americana imagery -- doughnuts, ice cream trucks, strange…

childhood innocence American ephemera/nostalgia absurdist non-sequitur

Afro-Blue

Abbey Lincoln

Oscar Brown Jr.'s lyric to Mongo Santamaría's polyrhythmic tune turns a percussion pattern into a vision of ancestral homeland…

ancestral memory and diaspora eroticism as metaphor for connection to homeland Black beauty and self-affirmation

Model Worker

Magazine

A deadpan monologue delivered in the voice of someone confessing bourgeois failings to an unseen authority and pledging reform…

ideological conformity self-criticism and confession consumerism vs. asceticism

Glory

Television

Television's "Glory" plays a lopsided, almost cartoonish romantic squabble against a chant that sounds like religious…

romantic confusion transcendence vs. absurdity surrender of anxiety

My Ride's Here

Warren Zevon

A dying man's fever-dream inventory of Hollywood Westerns, biblical epics, and Romantic poets, all jumbled together as he waits…

mortality and impending death faith and skepticism entangled art and myth as coping mechanisms

Medley: Cold Cold Cold / Tripe Face Boogie

Little Feat

This medley pairs a lean, bluesy lament about romantic and financial destitution with a loose, absurdist jam that dissolves…

poverty and isolation romantic disappointment touring life and rootlessness

Political Science

Randy Newman

Randy Newman adopts the voice of a wounded, petulant American nationalist who responds to global disapproval by proposing…

American exceptionalism imperial arrogance nuclear anxiety

Oh My Darling Don't Cry

Run the Jewels

A two-verse trade-off between El-P and Killer Mike that functions as pure sonic swagger and threat display, dressed up in…

defiance of authority hypermasculine bravado self-mythologizing

The Weight

The Band

A traveler arrives in a town called Nazareth looking for simple lodging and instead gets tangled in a chain of odd requests and…

burden and obligation hospitality and its refusal community entanglement

(Roamin' Thro' the Gloamin' With) 40.000 Headman

Traffic

The song is a loose, almost collage-like apology addressed to a fictional 'Uncle Albert,' stitched together from half-finished…

guilt and excuse-making family obligation absurdism

The Woman with the Tattooed Hands

Atmosphere

Slug narrates a surreal, almost hallucinatory encounter with a solitary older woman whose hand tattoos come to embody the…

duality of good and evil sexual autonomy and self-pleasure voyeurism versus empathy

Body Movin'

Beastie Boys

A pure party track built on the Beastie Boys' trademark trick of layering absurdist boasting over a fitness-instructor cadence,…

dance and physical release collective euphoria playful self-mythologizing

What About Us

The Fall

A talking-animal narrator, a rabbit émigré from East Germany living in Britain, stumbles across a newspaper story about a killer…

displacement and immigration institutional trust and betrayal tabloid horror as everyday backdrop

Pressed Rat and Warthog

Cream

A whimsical, deadpan spoken-word piece from Cream's most experimental album, narrating the forced closure of a surreal curiosity…

absurdism and nonsense loss of livelihood arbitrary authority

Windowlicker

Aphex Twin

Windowlicker is less a lyric than a vocal texture: a track built around fragmented, pitch-shifted, and heavily processed vocal…

vocal manipulation as instrument absurdism and misdirection sound versus meaning