Eight sex-related songs by McCartney
Anyway, it is not the first time that sex is a prominent theme in McCartney's songs. Therefore, an overview of some of his most striking sex-related songs:
Why Don’t We Do It In The Road
Another very explicit sex song, although the inspiration for it wasn’t very erotic. Paul wrote this Beatles-track during his stay in India after seeing two monkeys ‘doing it’:
I thought, bloody hell, (…) that's how simple the act of procreation is, this bloody monkey just hopping on and hopping off. There is an urge, they do it, and it's done with. And it's that simple. We have horrendous problems with it, and yet animals don't. So that was basically it. Why Don't We Do It In The Road? could have applied to either fucking or shitting, to put it roughly. Why don't we do either of them in the road? Well, the answer is we're civilized and we don't. But the song was just to pose that question. Why Don't We Do It In The Road? was a primitive statement to do with sex or to do with freedom really. I like it, it'd just so outrageous that I like it.
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Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
McCartney played the song live once, together with Neil Young at Coachella in 2016:
Kreen Akrore
Not my personal choice as a sex-related song by McCartney, but according to some female fans I spoke to, Paul’s heavy breathing on this instrumental track is very erotic. While I thought the heavy panting and gasping was just because of the intense drumming…
Eat At Home
In 1975 Paul McCartney explained that the song was "a plea for home cooking – it's obscene", with eating used as a euphemism for sex:
Come on, little lady
Lady, let's eat in bed
Come on, little lady
Lady, let's eat in bed
Eat in bed, eat in bed
Hi, Hi, Hi
There has been confusion for a long time: Does McCartney sing 'body gun' or 'polygon'. In fact, it does not matter at all, it is the same body part the lyrics refer to in both cases. And what’s done with that, also isn’t disguised in these four lines:
I'm gonna do it to you, gonna do it,
Sweet banana, you've never been done.
Yes, I go like a rabbit, gonna grab it,
Gonna do it 'til the night is done.
Wings' hit single from 1972 is undoubtedly one of Paul's most explicit sex songs:
I suppose it is a bit of a dirty song if sex is dirty and naughty. I was in a sensuous mood in Spain when I wrote it.
Girl’s School
The other track of the double A-sided single Mull Of Kintyre is a song about 1970s porn movies. The first two verses leave little to the imagination:
Sleepy head, kid sister
Lying on the floor
18 years and younger, boy
Well, she knows what she's waiting for
Yuki's a cool school mistress
She's an oriental princess
She shows films in the classroom, boy,
They put the paper on the windows
What’s That You’re Doing?
When I bought the album Tug of War as a 15-year old, I was absolutely certain: According to my dirty adolescent brain, this duet with Stevie Wonder couldn’t refer to anything other than great sex. Now being 51 I’m not that certain anymore. It also could be just a love song. Still, I prefer my first thought, especially because of this piece of lyrics:
What's that I'm feeling?
That sensation's such a mystery
I know what it's thrilling
And I hope this feeling lasts eternally
Girl you make me scream and shout
Fluid
The ambient techno track Fluid, from the 1998 Fireman album Rushes, starts of very relaxing, but halfway, after six minutes it turns into, well… just porn. You probably feel a bit uncomfortable when this song comes by when you’re sitting on the couch with your kids or when you’re parents are visiting. I don’t know from whom this heavy breathing and sighing female voice is (I don’t think it’s Linda’s), maybe it’s a sample from some porn movie.
Fuh You
And now we have the latest in the sex-related songs by Paul. Although there is still a discussion going on whether the lyrics are “I want it fuh (=for) you” or “I want to fuh (=f**k) you” (we’ll find out soon with the release of the new album which contains the printed lyrics) the intention is clear.
The controversy that has arisen about the almost use of the F-word is difficult to understand for a non-English speaking person like me. It is a weird obsession to peep away a vulgar, but otherwise in itself innocent, word on TV or muting it in songs. It’s an unknow phenomenon in other languages, as far as I know, and unimaginable in my mother tongues Dutch and German. But Britons and Americans apparently have more trouble with it. That McCartney is now making a bit of a joke of this taboo, is actually very entertaining. Furthermore, it’s a great song.
Related posts:
Wings' Rocking Hit Single Hi, Hi, Hi
Great McCartney Gems From The Eighties
Egypt Station Producer Greg Kurstin: “He’s Pushing The Boundaries”
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