Results for “playful menace”

Songs

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

Aretha Franklin

This is a driving-metaphor party song: sex and romance recast as a joyride down an open highway in a pink Cadillac. It's…

romantic/sexual liberation escape and momentum playfulness and flirtation

Prince

"Batdance" is less a song than a sound collage built to promote the 1989 Batman film, splicing dance-funk grooves with dialogue…

media spectacle identity/duality commercialism and tie-in culture

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

Gladys Knight

A domestic monologue in which a woman catalogs the daily labor she performs for a partner who has grown cold and inattentive,…

emotional labor and domestic care the myth of female self-sufficiency withdrawal and neglect in a relationship

Fairport Convention

This is the Fairport Convention arrangement of the old English/Scottish murder ballad about an adulterous tryst between a…

class transgression sexual desire and consequence honor and violence

Roxy Music

A deadpan monologue delivered by a wealthy consumer who has replaced human intimacy with a mail-order inflatable doll, framed as…

consumerism alienation artificiality vs authenticity

Cream

This is Cream's electrified rework of Robert Johnson's Delta blues standard, compressing the original's verses into a lean live…

isolation and abandonment desperation and pleading the crossroads as fate/damnation myth