Results for “fetishization of Black masculinity”

Songs

Kool Thing

Sonic Youth

Kim Gordon plays a seductive, sardonic call-and-response with a fetishized male icon, using come-ons and spoken interruptions to…

fetishization of Black masculinity gender and power celebrity worship

Heaven and Hell

Black Sabbath

This is Black Sabbath's Dio-era title track, a slow-building anthem that treats existence as a rigged carousel between opposing…

moral duality illusion vs. reality exploitation of belief

Róisín Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend

Thin Lizzy

This is Thin Lizzy's suite-like tribute to Irish identity, stitching together folk balladry, mythic invocation, and a rapid-fire…

Irish cultural inheritance myth and storytelling exile and longing for home

Fight the Power

Public Enemy

A protest anthem built as a dance record: Chuck D argues that political consciousness and Black pride are things you build in…

Black pride and self-definition institutional racism who gets to be a national hero

Can't Get Enough

Bad Company

This is a lean, riff-driven blues-rock strut built almost entirely around a single confession of desire repeated until it…

desire and appetite masculine bravado transactional love

I'm On Fire

Bruce Springsteen

A minimal, hushed rock song built around a single sustained image of desire as physical injury. Springsteen strips away the…

obsessive desire transgression/infidelity psychological torment

Blindness

The Fall

This is a plainspoken country-flavored heartbreak lament built around a single proverb-like refrain about foolishness and…

self-deception romantic betrayal folk wisdom/proverb

409

The Beach Boys

"409" is an early Beach Boys car song that treats a Chevrolet muscle car like a lover and a racehorse at once, celebrating…

car culture youthful aspiration/consumerism masculinity and status

This Woman's Work

Maxwell

Maxwell's cover of Kate Bush's 'This Woman's Work' turns a song about a man's helplessness during childbirth into a raw,…

helplessness impending loss regret

Mr. Big

Free

This is a bare-bones jealousy anthem built around a menacing catchphrase — a working man warning off a rival who's been sniffing…

jealousy and possessiveness masculine pride working-class self-assurance

Beast Of Burden

The Rolling Stones

A weary plea for tenderness dressed up as a refusal to keep serving as someone's workhorse. The narrator insists he's given…

exhaustion in relationships emotional labor vs desire masculinity and self-worth

Tear-Stained Letter

Richard Thompson

A wry, uptempo account of a breakup told from the battered-but-wisecracking side, where physical comedy stands in for emotional…

romantic aftermath toxic love masculine bravado as deflection

Jeepster

T. Rex

A glam-rock come-on that fuses car-fetish imagery with vampiric hunger, treating seduction as a kind of automotive worship.…

desire and pursuit commodification of the body glamour and artifice

Strange Fruit

Billie Holiday

A three-stanza protest song about the lynching of Black Americans in the Jim Crow South, built on a single sustained metaphor:…

racial terror and lynching the corruption of Southern pastoral imagery the body as evidence