Results for “sexual pursuit”

Songs

I Take What I Want

Ann Peebles

A declaration of sexual and emotional appetite delivered without apology, this song is Ann Peebles claiming the traditionally…

female desire and agency self-possession pursuit and conquest

Politician Man

Betty Davis

A raw funk vamp that turns the language of politics into an extended sexual come-on, with Davis playing a swaggering seductress…

sexual power and control satire of political rhetoric female sexual agency

Raw (How You Like It)

Common

A club-night brag track built around a repeated hook, this song follows a narrator moving through a party scene, scanning women,…

nightlife hedonism status and fashion signaling sexual pursuit

Dry Spell

Kacey Musgraves

A comic, unapologetically horny country song about a woman counting off the days since her last sexual encounter, using rural…

sexual frustration female desire and agency rural/country signifiers as innuendo

Hellhound On My Trail

Robert Johnson

A restless, fragmented blues built around the image of pursuit — weather, hoodoo, and dread all fused into a single sense of…

pursuit and dread restlessness/displacement folk magic and superstition

Whole Lotta Love

Led Zeppelin

A blues-rock boast built almost entirely on sexual innuendo and repetition, where the lyric functions less as narrative than as…

sexual conquest desire and excess masculine bravado

Sixteen Blue

The Replacements

A quiet, unglamorous portrait of teenage isolation, framed around confusion about sexuality and identity. Instead of anthemic…

adolescent alienation sexual confusion loneliness

Rockin' Daddy

Howlin’ Wolf

A boastful, sexually charged blues in which the singer claims mastery over both the physical act of "rocking" a partner and the…

sexual bravado transactional relationships masculine reputation

Take on Me

Weezer

This is Weezer's faithful cover of a-ha's 1985 synth-pop classic, rendered here with the band's signature guitar-driven…

romantic pursuit fear of commitment fleeting connection

I'm a Ram

Al Green

This is a lean, driving groove song built almost entirely around one animal metaphor: the singer as a ram, butting persistently…

persistence in desire masculine self-assertion obstacle and pursuit

We Run This

Missy Elliott

A brash, party-floor anthem in which Missy Elliott asserts sexual and regional dominance in equal measure, treating braggadocio…

sexual assertiveness regional pride/unity self-mythologizing braggadocio

Candy Man

Mississippi John Hurt

A rollicking Piedmont blues built entirely on a single, transparent sexual double entendre. Mississippi John Hurt uses the…

sexual innuendo folk humor itinerant male desirability

Hell Hound On My Trail

Robert Johnson

A restless, hunted man narrates his own flight from unnamed pursuit, mixing weather imagery, hoodoo folk magic, and longing for…

persecution and pursuit restlessness/displacement folk magic and superstition

Can't You Hear Me Knocking

The Rolling Stones

A brief, almost slight set of lyrics serves as launchpad for one of the Stones' longest and most instrumentally ambitious…

desperation and pursuit addiction and decadence desire as siege

Nadine

Mos Def

Mos Def's take on the Chuck Berry classic turns a simple chase-through-the-city into a breathless comic monologue about pursuit…

romantic pursuit urban mobility desire and elusiveness

King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1

Neutral Milk Hotel

An opening track that fuses childhood memory with domestic violence and adolescent sexual awakening, all delivered in a run-on,…

childhood innocence and its loss domestic dysfunction sexual awakening

Maybellene

Mos Def

This is Mos Def's rendition of Chuck Berry's rock-and-roll foundational text, recorded for the Chess Records biopic soundtrack.…

infidelity and suspicion pursuit and competition American car culture

Coffee Blues

Mississippi John Hurt

A talking-blues that starts as an ad-jingle riff on a coffee brand and quietly turns into an extended sexual pun, with the…

desire disguised as domestic ritual double entendre longing and pursuit

Squonk

Genesis

Genesis take the folkloric Squonk—a creature of Pennsylvania legend so ashamed of its own ugliness that it weeps constantly and…

shame and self-loathing the cruelty of pursuit despair and self-destruction

Golden Gal

Animal Collective

A song built around a half-real, half-mediated female icon glimpsed through screens and reviews, with the narrator working out…

celebrity and mediated desire gender and sexuality fandom as devotion

Been Down So Long

The Doors

A straight blues workout built on a single inverted-fortune boast, this track uses the twelve-bar form's repetition to turn…

confinement and release blues tradition/lineage sexual demand

Rock Me Baby

B.B. King

A twelve-bar blues built almost entirely on a single sexual metaphor, this is B.B. King working the oldest trick in the blues…

sexual desire longing and satiation blues tradition and formula

Nasty Gal

Betty Davis

Betty Davis takes the insults an ex has thrown at her -- witch, alley cat, dirty dog -- and turns them into a badge of honor,…

sexual autonomy reclaiming slurs female desire vs. respectability

Childs Play

SZA

SZA uses the imagery of childhood games—Barbies, video games, playground toys—to talk about growing into a sexual and emotional…

coming of age sexual awakening nostalgia

Work It

Missy Elliott

Missy Elliott's signature single is a maximalist celebration of sexual confidence and self-invention, built on a literal sonic…

sexual agency self-invention and reinvention female solidarity and hustle

Gangsta Luv

Snoop Dogg

A slow-rolling G-funk seduction track built around a single boast-and-hook structure: Snoop cycles through sexual conquest…

sexual conquest masculine bravado material excess

5:15

The Who

A disoriented young man rides a commuter train while his mind fractures into fragments of memory, sexual anxiety, and social…

dissociation and identity collapse adolescent sexuality and shame class and Englishness

Put It Right Here (Or Keep It Out There)

Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith delivers an ultimatum blues to a freeloading lover, dressing up a blunt economic demand in barnyard comedy and…

economic independence sexual and domestic reciprocity female autonomy

Ching-A-Ling

Missy Elliott

A club-floor victory lap built almost entirely from boasts and hook repetition, this track is less about narrative than about…

braggadocio female sexual agency wealth and status

Born on the Bayou

Betty Davis

Betty Davis takes John Fogerty's swampy CCR title and reworks it into a funk vamp about inherited female wariness of men that…

maternal warning and inherited caution reclaiming a borrowed rock lyric through funk sexual assertion and demand

Gloria (Backstage & Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal)

The Doors

This is a live rehearsal-tape performance of the Van Morrison/Them garage-rock standard, stretched by Jim Morrison into a loose,…

adolescent sexual awakening performance and improvisation desire and impatience

Little Red Rooster

Howlin’ Wolf

A slow, slinking blues built entirely on barnyard imagery, in which a rooster's absence throws the whole farm into disorder.…

sexual potency and absence domestic disorder masculine boasting

Brown Sugar

The Rolling Stones

A driving, riff-driven rock song that fuses the imagery of slavery-era sexual exploitation with a leering come-on chorus,…

exploitation and power race and sexualized violence historical memory as spectacle

Ice Cream Man

Van Halen

A cover of John Brim's blues novelty tune, retooled by Van Halen as a live, stage-patter-heavy party anthem. The song trades on…

seduction as commerce summer as sexual awakening showmanship/performance

A Rose Is Still a Rose

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin plays elder counselor to a wounded young woman, using the image of a rose to insist that sexual betrayal doesn't…

self-worth after betrayal intergenerational female solidarity resilience

Dirty Laundry

Danny Brown

Danny Brown turns a mundane household chore into a running double entendre for sexual and criminal grime, stacking…

sexual degradation as comedy poverty and hustling shame versus exposure

Red Rooster

Howlin’ Wolf

A slow, brooding blues built entirely around a barnyard image that doubles as sexual and social allegory. Howlin' Wolf uses the…

sexual innuendo through animal imagery domestic disorder male virility and absence

Close Your Eyes (And Count to F**k)

Run the Jewels

A high-velocity posse cut where El-P and Killer Mike trade verses of violent bravado, prison-abolitionist rage, and sexual…

mass incarceration and prison abolition institutional hypocrisy (church, courts, police) hypermasculine bravado and sexual conquest

I Just Want To Make Love To You

Etta James

Etta James takes a Willie Dixon blues lyric written for a male singer and, sung from a woman's voice, turns a checklist of…

desire and domesticity gender role reversal possessiveness dressed as devotion

Shoot High, Aim Low

Yes

A hazy, image-driven track that reads like a fragmented travelogue through some unnamed conflict zone, mixing romantic escape…

disorientation moral ambiguity escape and pursuit