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♫ ("Sexy MF" by Prince)
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- Since the birth of modern pop culture,
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sex has been used to
sell music, just like it
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has been used to sell everything else.
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- Thank you very much.
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- And today, more than ever, the world's
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best selling artists are flaunting sex.
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So, sex sells.
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But what I want to find
out is, why and how
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some songs can make you
actually feel more sexy.
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I'm going to speak with
musicians, producers
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and singers who have created some of the
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sexiest sounds ever.
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Scientists who believe
that music physically
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causes sexual pleasure.
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And along the way, I'm hoping to discover
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what are the best songs to have sex to?
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- And we're rolling.
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- Let's get it on.
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♫ ("Let's get it on" by Marvin Gaye)
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When that came out, it
became my calling card.
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Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
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But the thing about it
is, it lets the girl know
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exactly what you had in mind!
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- "Rapture" by Blondie
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♫ ("Rapture" by Blondie)
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Each person has their sex to have sex to.
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I've chosen Blondie, because there's a
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rolling bassline in it which is funky,
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and I think people can
see that I'm enjoying it.
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So, they react to it.
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- Sleeping Pill, by Queenadreena.
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♫("Sleeping Pill", by Queenadreena)
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It's got this constant
grinding rhythm that is just,
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it's lovely, it's
finding oneself in a very
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enclosed, intimate space.
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- My song is Plan B, Love Goes Down
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♫ ("Love Goes Down" by Plan B)
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There's this lyric that he says in it,
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something about pulling
you close and laying you
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down on the bed, and every time I hear it,
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I'm like, "ooh, yeah
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that sounds good." (laughs)
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(rock guitar)
- [Narrator] Different songs
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do it for different people.
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But might there be a
common formula, shared by
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all songs that make people
want to get horizontal?
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For most people, sex and
music both become a big deal
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at around the same time,
when they're in their
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early teens.
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And when I was a teenager,
I got most of my musical
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influences, from my mum, Ellenor.
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- I remember growing up, with a coffee.
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Is that where you first discovered music?
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This was grandad's coffee.
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- Definitely. I mean, for a young age
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I can remember my chin
be notched on the table,
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and listening to the music
coming out of the jukebox.
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I remember the girls coming on the buses,
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the bus conductors coming
in for their coffee and
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they would stand next
to the jukebox and maybe
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start dancing and things like that.
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- You loved Rod Stewart.
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♫ ("Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" By Rod Stewart)
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What is it about Rod Stewart--
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- Nothing.
- Does he still do it for you?
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- Oh, definitely. Definitely.
(laughs)
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I've been seeing his muscles
as he's gotten older.
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I just think he oozed with sex appeal.
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And I just loved his music,
just the way he moved,
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and the huskiness in his voice.
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I just get this warm lovely
tingly sensation, still
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(laughs)
when I hear him.
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- Can you remember when
you were growing up,
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if there was a big song that
was like, the sexy song.
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- "Je T'aime"
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- Really?
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- Yes. I remember that
if it was yesterday.
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Now I'm not sure if it was in the coffee,
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and my dad had so many complaints he was
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asked to remove it.
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- No.
- But yet, that was a
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big, big one.
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- Did you know what
they were singing about?
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- No not really I just
heard the heavy breathing,
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I didn't have a clue what they were doing
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or whatever.
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But again I loved the tune
I thought it was great.
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- Do you have a song to have sex to?
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- No. Don't need it.
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I'll make more music.
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(laughs)
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- Good answer.
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It's no great surprise
to hear that "Je T'aime"
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raised eyebrows in Suburban Fife.
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The song caused outrage all over the world
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when it was released in 1969.
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It was banned by the BBC
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and it went on to sell
four million copies.
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If there's one song that epitomizes
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sexual freedom, it's
got to be "Je T'aime".
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I am beyond excited as
I'm off to chat with the
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woman who sung on the definitive version,
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my favorite version of
the song, Jane Birkin.
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♫ ("Je T'aime" by Jane
Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg)
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Jane was only 22 when she
recorded that classic version
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of the song, with Serge Gainsbourg.
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Not only was "Je T'aime"
sexy, it was widely believed
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to be a recording of her and
Serge actually having sex.
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When you look at the lyrics,
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they're not as explicit
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as everyone--
- No, they're
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philosophical, actually.
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Even when he says "I come
in and out from your...
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- Kidneys?
(Laughs)
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- It would be kidneys in
English, that's why we
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never bothered to do a translation.
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But it's the back of a
girl's back in natural fact.
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But it sounded so beautiful
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and Serge said it's philosophical because
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you can't go anywhere.
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For a man, that's it.
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And so I thought, oh that's very,
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that's a new (laughs) facet
that I haven't thought of.
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♫ ("Je T'aime" by Jane
Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg)
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Even the title, "Je T'aime
moi non plus" doesn't mean
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"I love you so do I".
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It's "I love you nor do I".
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So what people talk for a
great love song was also
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written by a man who didn't
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believe that the other person loved him.
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He said that it was,
thanks to me singing an
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octave over the Bardot version
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that gave it a sort of,
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choir boy thing
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that was perhaps what made
it such a shock to people too
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because it sounded so pure.
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And poetic, but nonetheless sexual,
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where you absolutely know
what they're both doing.
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- That's the job you did well because
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everybody thinks you--
- Actress.
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(laughs)
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I flung myself into it so much, I guess
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I got carried away.
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- Do you think anyone else could have
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made this record and had this response,
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apart from Serge?
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- I'm sure that it was
a success because it
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was in French.
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And also because it was
heavy breathing, because
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that doesn't need any-
it has no frontiers.
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(laughs)
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But because it's French
gave it great charm, sure.
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- Do you still get
reaction to "Je T'aime"?
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- In London I was in a taxi and
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he screamed on the brakes,
he said "Fucking Je T'aime!
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I had fucking five children
off of that fucking song!"
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So you think really if one
is going to be remembered
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for anything, then "Je
T'aime moi non plus" is it.
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I can just hear it, as
you go out feet first.
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(laughs)
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It will.
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- [Narrator] For me, no one
has managed to get close
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to Jane and Serge's ecstatic performance.
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A true masterpiece, and definitely
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a song to have sex to.
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♫ ("Je T'aime" by Jane
Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg)
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- I believe in love, I
wanted something about
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love on me so that's
why I chose this song,
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"Je T'aime moi non plus".
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There's something personal about it.
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Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin
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are literally describing
what they are doing.
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You can imagine straightaway
that he's on her,
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making love.
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He's stopping because
he doesn't want to...
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Ejaculate?
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And the end of the song
is, like, the orgasm.
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♫ ("Je T'aime" by Jane
Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg)
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- [Narrator] Thirty years
after Serge and Jane
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scandalized the world
with Je T'aime, another
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jewel emerged, with songs
that made a lot of people
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feel a little bit tingly.
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♫ ("La Femme D'Argent" by Air)
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Electronic pop icons Air
produced songs that weren't
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about sex, but they oozed sex nonetheless.
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I'm going to the band's studio,
to meet one half of Air,
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Jean-Benoit.
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- Bonjour!
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(both speaking in foreign language)
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Wow, these are the
things I would recognize.
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For many, the sexiest Air song is
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"Sexy Boy".
♫ ("Sexy Boy" by Air)
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- "Sexy Boy" has been written in
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at most, fifteen minutes.
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(laughs)
- Fifteen!
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- Yeah, yeah.
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♫ ("Sexy Boy" by Air)
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There was on TV there was a
report about a fashion show,
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and there were some men walking and
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showing their clothes,
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and so, "Sexy Boy" came just like that.
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- Do you think there is such a thing
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as a song to have sex to?
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- Personally I can't make love
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listening to music because
I can't concentrate
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on what I do.
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(Both laugh)
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I think that music, you
know, has this amazing power
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of catching vibes, because
music are vibrations
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and so music can copy and
reflect the vibes of love.
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Which maybe, like the alpha
waves, you know that we
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have in our brain when
we make love or when we
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relax, or when we feel good.
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And I think that music can catch that.
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I mean I don't think
there is like a, sort of a
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precise science about
sexy sounds or sexy chords
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but most of the time it's
something that is not
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aggressive, so
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(plays piano)
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The bass always stays the same.
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(plays piano)
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- [Narrator] So far on my journey,
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I've discovered that
philosophy, wordplay, sensuality
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and alpha waves seem to be
the things that make music
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really sexy.
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But I think I've only
just scratched the surface
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on my quest to find out the
secret of what makes a song
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a song to have sex to.
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- ♫ Well since my baby left me..
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- [Narrator] Since the
first days of rock n roll,
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pop stars have been making
audiences go weak at the knees.
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- That's what Elvis was,
he was sexy, he looked sexy
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he sounded sexy.
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He wore outfits which
all you wanted to do was
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just look at him.
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He wasn't the king of rock n roll,
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he was the king of sex, really.
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(Elvis' guitar solo, audience screams)
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- In 1957, Elvis had to be
filmed from the waist up
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by the Ed Sullivan Show,
for fear of sending
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America's youth into sexual meltdown.
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♫ ("Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
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And the perceived power of
music to promote sexuality
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continued to alarm the gatekeepers.
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In 1983, a bunch of unknown Liverpudlians
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had their debut single banned.
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♫ ("Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
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And in the process,
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
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hit number one, with one of the
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best-selling UK singles ever.
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I'm meeting Trevor Horn,
who produced "Relax"
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to find out what he did to
make it so controversial.
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Not so much a song to have sex to,
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as a song to have an orgy to.
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood,
"Relax", was a real
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kind of benchmark of
things changing in terms of
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sexual revolution in music.
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- Well I think "Relax"
reflected a culture that was
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going on at the time.
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We just had fun pretending that, you know,
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guys were having huge orgasms and
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hose pipes full of semen
and things like that.
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And making jokes about them
as we were making the record.
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♫ "Huah!"
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That beat was quite insistent, you know,
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dance records are
traditionally around 125.
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But "Relax" was, I think,
116 BPM, slightly slower.
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But it gave you that sort
of very insistent thud,
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kind of thing.
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- It still got something
that's kind of, you know,
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and kind of I guess it's raucous and
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debauched sex as opposed to nice.
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(laughs)
- Well I suppose it suggests
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a lot of men trying to
have an orgasm, "Relax".
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Where a song like "Moments in Love"
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is more tender, it feels
much more like normal sex.
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(laughs)
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♫ ("Moments in Love" by Art of Noise)
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- "Moments in Love",
also produced by Trevor,
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manages to be sexy in a
totally different way.
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It's more about mood and suggestion.
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Where did you start with that
and what did you set out to
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achieve with that song, I guess?
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- I suppose I was thinking
about, the kind of track
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that maybe you could have sex to.
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Ten minutes long, not too fast.
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The way it used to work
with the Art of Noise,
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Paul Morley who is sort of journalist
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would come up with a title.
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And in this case he came up with the tile,
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"Moments in Love".
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And very cleverly, Anne
Dudley came up with this
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one little bit.
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♫ ("Moments in Love" by Art of Noise)
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(plays a cappella vocal
singing, "Mo-ments, in love")
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That's Anne Dudley. You know,
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but I always remember, I
always remember playing it
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to my late wife in the car.
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And she said, "That's really boring.
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Just goes on for ages."
(laughs)
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I said, "Well it's kind of meant to."
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- Do you think there is
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a formula or a process in
creating a song like this,
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that's a song to have sex to.
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- Well if there was a
formula I guess we could
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keep knocking them out,
and we could have done
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like fifteen of them or something.
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But there's no formula really and there's
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no way of planning it.
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- Paul Morley said that
"Moments" is one of the
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best songs to have sex to.
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- Yeah, I've never had sex
to it, so I wouldn't know.
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(laughs)
Certainly not to
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"Moments in Love".
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- What song would you
put up there with it?
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In that category?
- See the problem is,
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you see, I work on music
ten to twelve hours a day.
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So--
- Silence.
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- I tend to go and switch the radio off.
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You know?
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- It's like being at work.
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- It's like
(laughs)
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being at work, yeah.
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♫ ("Ignition (Remix)" by R. Kelly)
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- In the digital music age, we all have
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immediate access to any type of music.
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♫ ("Brown Sugar" by D'Angelo)
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I want to know when it comes
to songs to have sex to,
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what are we listening to, right now?
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That's why I have come to Spotify
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because they can track
our listening habits.
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I'm meeting Samantha, Spotify analyst
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who can tell me who is listening to what
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and when.
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We spoke to Trevor Horn
about "Moments in Love",
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a track he did with Art of Noise.
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I would be interested to
know if you've got any
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data on that, who
listens to it, age group,
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that kind of thing.
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- Yeah so we looked into that.
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It's actually a male
skew, so slightly more
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males listening to that
track than females.
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And the key demographic
who are listening to it are
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18 to 24 year olds.
- Really?
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- Yeah so a bit younger
than you might expect, maybe
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listening to that one.
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- What about something like "Je T'aime"?
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- What was really
interesting about this track
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is that streams actually
increased three times
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on Valentines Day!
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So, love song, love
playlist, Valentine's Day is
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obviously the key time for that.
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We've got a lot of different
playlists for different
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moods on the service.
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One of those moods is romance.
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And sex playlist is obviously
an important part of that.
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We've got, for example, pure seduction
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which has 139,000 followers.
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- Okay, can we have a look at that?
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- Yeah! We can have a look.
- Let me put my glasses on.
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- We've got Late Night Love for example
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- What is on that?
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- Well the first song in there is a
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D'Angelo track.
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♫ ("One Mo'gin" by D'Angelo)
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And then if we look at
some of the others--
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- That's quite interesting,
that whole playlist is
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pretty much kind of
urban and R&B isn't it?
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- Yeah.
- Frank Ocean,
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Jill Scott, Drake, The Weeknd
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And do you think people
are using those playlists
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for what it says, what the title says?
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- I recon so! I recon people are
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less imaginative than you might think.
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(laughs)
And they're looking for
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those playlists to seduce another person,
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putting them on in the
background, maybe not telling
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the other person what the
title of the playlist is but
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- Yeah.
- I do think it's being
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used that way.
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- [Narrator] If people are
using crowd-sourced playlists
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to set the mood, perhaps
there really is some kind of
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science to the art of musical seduction.
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I've got some of my mates
together in my local
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to find out if they use
playlists to get lucky.
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- We, probably all of us, love albums
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but I think you're more
likely to hedge your bets
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and put on a wee playlist.
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- That depends if-
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- I would always go for an album.
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- How was it in 1998?
- I wouldn't normally go,
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yeah
(laughs)
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I would go to someone else's
house and plug my phone in
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and be like, we're going
to listen to this now.
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- No?
- No.
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- I would.
(laughs)
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- Can we play a game?
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Get some paper, I want
everyone to write down
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a song that they associate with sex.
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- [Narrator] I've known
this lot for years.
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But I've never asked them
to tell me what songs
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turn them on.
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Alright, first thing is
we've got to try and guess
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who said this first, okay?
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- Okay.
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- Prince, "Most Beautiful
Girl in the World".
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- I would say, Steve!
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00:19:04,702 --> 00:19:05,785
- No.
- Nick.
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- Guilty!
(group laughs)
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00:19:09,811 --> 00:19:11,123
- I think it's just a beautiful song,
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I know it's kind of
paying homage to women.
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Which as a, young man fully
devoid of sexual experiences,
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you kind of think maybe if
you pay homage to a woman
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through a song, then
that might lead to more.
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And in this particular case it did.
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So that worked quite well.
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- Prince is sexy and dirty
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- [Group] Yes.
- All in one, romantic, dirty
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sexy, all of those.
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So he never falls too much into cliches.
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- FKA Twigs, "Two Weeks".
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- Will.
- Nah!
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- What I think about this song is like,
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this particular moment when it was on,
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often, it's kind of just
like that awkward to have
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music on when you have
sex, but this was kind of
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on at the moment and it was great.
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- And for Nathan, AC/DC
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Go on!
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- "You Shook Me All Night Long"
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(crowd exclaims, cheers)
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I find guitars are, you know, sexy.
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00:20:00,191 --> 00:20:04,358
(crowd laughs)
and women, just to clarify!
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00:20:06,351 --> 00:20:08,268
- Patti Smith, "Gloria"
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00:20:09,996 --> 00:20:11,261
- Was that you?
- Yep.
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00:20:11,261 --> 00:20:13,344
(laughs)
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00:20:14,936 --> 00:20:16,462
And I don't know, it's
the way she sings it
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she's almost talking it
to you, it's like a tease
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there's something really
kind of provocative about it
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00:20:22,105 --> 00:20:23,161
I think.
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- The only song called
"Gloria" I know goes,
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(singing) Gloria! Gloria!
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If anybody here has sex to that,
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I'm leaving.
(crowd laughs)
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- So my mates have found
out what my song to have sex
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to is, but so far, all I find
out is that the songs that
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turn people on, are as varied
as the people themselves.
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♫ ("Gloria" by Patti Smith)
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♫ "Love to love you, baby"
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I want to journey, to
find out what makes a song
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a song to have sex to.
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In the 1970s, a new musical
genre emerged from the
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nightclubs of New York.
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♫ ("Love to Love You
Baby" by Donna Summer)
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Created by producers
using electronic beats and
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repetitive vocal hooks, this new style was
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all about dancing.
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00:21:11,626 --> 00:21:16,351
The closest thing to having
sex with your clothes on.
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00:21:16,351 --> 00:21:19,045
It was the birth of disco
and its undisputed queen
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was the late, great Donna Summer.
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♫ ("I Feel Love" by Donna Summer)
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00:21:31,154 --> 00:21:33,929
- Donna Summer, "I Feel Love" was just so
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sensual and so sexy, and
makes you want to move.
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00:21:39,933 --> 00:21:42,383
- You get into it and you feel it.
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00:21:42,383 --> 00:21:46,550
It creates a mood and an
environment that is sexy.
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00:21:47,573 --> 00:21:51,740
♫ "Ooooh, it's so good, it's so good..."
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- Very sexy songs if you
listen to them in the club
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you've had one drink or two, then
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you see someone that's good looking,
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you think about it, you know?
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00:22:14,494 --> 00:22:18,430
- In this modern mating
ritual, DJs are like shaman,
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building the mood and
orchestrating the highs and lows.
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00:22:22,923 --> 00:22:27,090
♫ ("Crazy in Love" by Beyonce & Jay-Z)
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00:22:28,078 --> 00:22:29,645
- You'll get guys coming up to you,
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shaking your hand, dragging
their girl with them,
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you know it means a lot.
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Okay, you've had a good
time, that works for you.
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You're off to enjoy the
rest of your evening.
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00:22:38,361 --> 00:22:40,125
- When they hear it they
know that they're meant
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to react a certain way, and they do.
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00:22:46,890 --> 00:22:48,852
- If music can make us want sex, just by
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pushing the right buttons,
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I need to find out if it can push mine.
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00:22:54,344 --> 00:22:56,759
So I'm on my way to Medical School
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00:22:56,759 --> 00:22:59,348
to meet up with Dr. Harry
Witchel and he's done
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all types of research
into the effects that
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music has on people.
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He's also written a book
called "You Are What You Hear".
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He's going to conduct a
little experiment on me.
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00:23:08,525 --> 00:23:10,789
I'm not entirely sure what it involves but
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I've had to give him
some music that I'm into,
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00:23:13,331 --> 00:23:16,153
and I guess if I had a song to have sex to
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it would be Patti Smith, "Gloria".
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00:23:18,045 --> 00:23:20,402
So that's one of the
tracks I told him about.
497
00:23:20,402 --> 00:23:21,485
So we'll see.
498
00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:29,597
Harry is going to monitor
my heartbeat and any changes
499
00:23:29,597 --> 00:23:31,884
on my skin, which will show if I
500
00:23:31,884 --> 00:23:32,884
get aroused.
501
00:23:33,858 --> 00:23:36,389
- So if I put this in your lap
502
00:23:36,389 --> 00:23:37,294
- Yeah.
503
00:23:37,294 --> 00:23:39,303
- So what we're going to do is
504
00:23:39,303 --> 00:23:42,604
I'm going to play a piece of music.
505
00:23:42,604 --> 00:23:44,902
While that's going, you'll
see some photographs
506
00:23:44,902 --> 00:23:47,948
of men's faces, and those men's faces
507
00:23:47,948 --> 00:23:50,115
may be attractive to you, they may not.
508
00:23:50,115 --> 00:23:52,237
If you think he's sexy,
that's the left button.
509
00:23:52,237 --> 00:23:54,268
If you don't think he's sexy,
that's the right button.
510
00:23:54,268 --> 00:23:56,161
You press the button as
soon as you feel that way.
511
00:23:56,161 --> 00:23:57,391
So it's all good,
512
00:23:57,391 --> 00:24:00,308
are we clear on that?
- Yeah, yeah.
513
00:24:02,269 --> 00:24:06,779
He's going to show me a
series of photos of men.
514
00:24:06,779 --> 00:24:10,544
But play different music
to see how I react.
515
00:24:10,544 --> 00:24:13,435
(sexy music)
516
00:24:13,435 --> 00:24:15,733
That's a great picture.
517
00:24:15,733 --> 00:24:17,057
Hi, Dave Grohl!
518
00:24:17,057 --> 00:24:17,890
Yes!
519
00:24:22,525 --> 00:24:24,220
- Okay, that's good.
520
00:24:24,220 --> 00:24:26,415
Now let's talk a little
bit about this here music.
521
00:24:26,415 --> 00:24:27,248
- Ahhh!
522
00:24:29,487 --> 00:24:30,737
Love this song.
523
00:24:32,301 --> 00:24:33,891
I won't be massively surprised if
524
00:24:33,891 --> 00:24:37,374
playing one of my favorite
songs makes me more, open
525
00:24:37,374 --> 00:24:39,388
to finding someone attractive.
526
00:24:39,388 --> 00:24:43,555
♫ ("Bloodbuzz Ohio" by The National)
527
00:24:44,590 --> 00:24:47,411
(laughs)
528
00:24:47,411 --> 00:24:48,479
- What happened with this
529
00:24:48,479 --> 00:24:50,659
set was that you had
really strong arousal.
530
00:24:50,659 --> 00:24:52,986
So your heart rate, which is
normally resting at around
531
00:24:52,986 --> 00:24:56,306
65 to 70, was up at around
90 for a little bit,
532
00:24:56,306 --> 00:24:57,943
right at the beginning of the song,
533
00:24:57,943 --> 00:24:59,964
because you were like "yeah,
let's dance" or something.
534
00:24:59,964 --> 00:25:03,609
You had fairly strong
responses to Fassbinder
535
00:25:03,609 --> 00:25:07,371
(laughs)
That one had the most obvious
536
00:25:07,371 --> 00:25:09,101
sexual responses.
537
00:25:09,101 --> 00:25:10,947
- I'm so fickle
- Well
538
00:25:10,947 --> 00:25:13,269
(laughs)
- Or predictable
539
00:25:13,269 --> 00:25:16,436
(laughs)
- I tell you.
540
00:25:18,093 --> 00:25:18,926
Alright.
541
00:25:20,091 --> 00:25:24,258
♫ ("You're Beautiful" by James Blunt)
542
00:25:25,284 --> 00:25:28,201
(pretends snoring)
543
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:32,276
- Oh, dear.
544
00:25:35,593 --> 00:25:36,426
Ugh.
545
00:25:38,031 --> 00:25:39,099
- Okay
(Turns off music)
546
00:25:39,099 --> 00:25:40,423
- Ah, thank God for that.
547
00:25:40,423 --> 00:25:43,313
- You had almost no sexual responses.
548
00:25:43,313 --> 00:25:44,265
- Funny that.
- There was
549
00:25:44,265 --> 00:25:47,342
no real arousal, almost
I would guess a kind of
550
00:25:47,342 --> 00:25:48,979
anger response.
(laughs)
551
00:25:48,979 --> 00:25:50,802
Well there you go.
- Yeah.
552
00:25:50,802 --> 00:25:53,298
♫ ("Gloria" by Patti Smith)
553
00:25:53,298 --> 00:25:55,829
- Now we're talking. "Gloria".
554
00:25:55,829 --> 00:25:58,579
Now this one should get me going.
555
00:26:00,252 --> 00:26:03,835
♫ "Gloria, G-l-o-r-i-a"...
556
00:26:12,872 --> 00:26:15,752
- Your primary response
was to the music itself.
557
00:26:15,752 --> 00:26:17,064
- Yeah.
- I didn't see all
558
00:26:17,064 --> 00:26:20,431
that much in much of your
response to photographs.
559
00:26:20,431 --> 00:26:21,499
I would say that,
560
00:26:21,499 --> 00:26:24,076
I don't think "Gloria"
is really a song for
561
00:26:24,076 --> 00:26:26,340
getting to know someone else.
562
00:26:26,340 --> 00:26:29,340
Things where you responded strongly,
563
00:26:30,250 --> 00:26:33,583
to the music in a potentially sexual way
564
00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:37,569
would have been with The National, whereas
565
00:26:37,569 --> 00:26:39,182
we had passion killers--
566
00:26:39,182 --> 00:26:40,285
- James Blunt.
567
00:26:40,285 --> 00:26:41,319
- What's wrong with James Blunt?
568
00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:42,375
- Oh, come on.
- He seems like
569
00:26:42,375 --> 00:26:43,455
he's so popular in America.
- I'm sure he's a
570
00:26:43,455 --> 00:26:45,220
lovely--
- Everyone in America
571
00:26:45,220 --> 00:26:46,462
loves him.
- ...lovely man,
572
00:26:46,462 --> 00:26:47,611
just that song.
573
00:26:47,611 --> 00:26:49,295
- I'm sure you'll change
your mind about it.
574
00:26:49,295 --> 00:26:50,351
- I don't think I ever will.
575
00:26:50,351 --> 00:26:51,350
(laughs)
576
00:26:51,350 --> 00:26:54,891
That's something that will never change.
577
00:26:54,891 --> 00:26:56,615
[Narrator] I'm really surprised "Gloria"
578
00:26:56,615 --> 00:26:58,647
didn't get more of a reaction.
579
00:26:58,647 --> 00:27:00,162
I think I need to dig a bit deeper
580
00:27:00,162 --> 00:27:04,392
into the science behind
songs to have sex to.
581
00:27:04,392 --> 00:27:07,366
I'm off to meet scientist
and author Zoe Cormier
582
00:27:07,366 --> 00:27:09,978
who has very strong and
fascinating views about
583
00:27:09,978 --> 00:27:13,145
how and why music affects us sexually.
584
00:27:14,332 --> 00:27:17,443
If there's one person
who can help me answer
585
00:27:17,443 --> 00:27:19,893
questions about the relationship between
586
00:27:19,893 --> 00:27:22,470
sex and music, it's you, Zoe.
587
00:27:22,470 --> 00:27:24,316
(laughs)
You wrote a book on it.
588
00:27:24,316 --> 00:27:27,149
Where did your interest in
the relationship between
589
00:27:27,149 --> 00:27:29,065
sex and music come from?
590
00:27:29,065 --> 00:27:30,992
- Well I put myself through school
591
00:27:30,992 --> 00:27:32,432
by bartending at a nightclub.
592
00:27:32,432 --> 00:27:34,963
So I spent five years watching
593
00:27:34,963 --> 00:27:36,880
other people get wasted
594
00:27:38,388 --> 00:27:40,305
and try and hook up and
595
00:27:41,290 --> 00:27:45,957
so just observing the
ecology of the human species.
596
00:27:45,957 --> 00:27:50,009
And there's no question
that the relationship
597
00:27:50,009 --> 00:27:52,796
between sex and music exists.
598
00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:55,176
- One of the other things
that I find fascinating
599
00:27:55,176 --> 00:27:57,521
in your book is that you
say that music has this
600
00:27:57,521 --> 00:27:59,100
intense effect--
- Yeah
601
00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:01,944
- Physically and mentally, on the brain,
602
00:28:01,944 --> 00:28:03,581
on the human species.
603
00:28:03,581 --> 00:28:04,859
- Yeah. There's a part of your brain
604
00:28:04,859 --> 00:28:06,577
it's called the nucleus acumbinds,
605
00:28:06,577 --> 00:28:08,588
it's right in the middle.
606
00:28:08,588 --> 00:28:11,285
And if you were to have sex,
607
00:28:11,285 --> 00:28:13,452
it would release dopamine,
608
00:28:14,571 --> 00:28:17,654
serotonin, oxytocin- happy chemicals.
609
00:28:19,424 --> 00:28:23,278
What's amazing is that
they found out in 2005
610
00:28:23,278 --> 00:28:27,272
that music produces the exact same thing.
611
00:28:27,272 --> 00:28:31,440
Mathematics doesn't do that,
language doesn't do that.
612
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,726
Music does that, and when
you listen to Marvin Gaye,
613
00:28:34,726 --> 00:28:38,743
you actually do have a
release of sexy chemicals.
614
00:28:38,743 --> 00:28:40,832
- What is it about music though?
615
00:28:40,832 --> 00:28:44,768
Is it the beat, is it the
tempo, is it the voice,
616
00:28:44,768 --> 00:28:45,999
is the melody?
617
00:28:45,999 --> 00:28:46,870
- They don't know yet.
618
00:28:46,870 --> 00:28:49,969
It's entirely personal, and
one of the reasons that we
619
00:28:49,969 --> 00:28:52,570
don't know is because the science of
620
00:28:52,570 --> 00:28:55,391
music and biology is very new.
621
00:28:55,391 --> 00:28:58,607
So for a very long time,
scientists were obsessed with
622
00:28:58,607 --> 00:29:02,044
language and they thought
that language was the thing
623
00:29:02,044 --> 00:29:05,004
that demarcated us from animals.
624
00:29:05,004 --> 00:29:08,837
And music was denigrated
as a trivial pursuit.
625
00:29:09,811 --> 00:29:11,854
So they've only really
been only looking at
626
00:29:11,854 --> 00:29:13,410
this for 15 years.
627
00:29:13,410 --> 00:29:15,337
The scientists have discovered that
628
00:29:15,337 --> 00:29:18,112
when you listen to music that you like,
629
00:29:18,112 --> 00:29:22,327
all the neurons in your
head pulse in synchrony.
630
00:29:22,327 --> 00:29:25,241
And I don't mean that they
fire at the same time,
631
00:29:25,241 --> 00:29:28,317
I mean that they harmonize
their firing, and they've
632
00:29:28,317 --> 00:29:30,326
never seen this before.
633
00:29:30,326 --> 00:29:31,916
- Another thing that you
say in your book is that
634
00:29:31,916 --> 00:29:34,250
music is one of the few
things that connects
635
00:29:34,250 --> 00:29:36,340
both sides of the brain.
636
00:29:36,340 --> 00:29:37,582
What are the other things?
637
00:29:37,582 --> 00:29:40,057
- Nothing. Only music, so
638
00:29:40,057 --> 00:29:43,229
there's a bit in the middle of your head
639
00:29:43,229 --> 00:29:45,528
is called the corpus callosum.
640
00:29:45,528 --> 00:29:49,452
And music is the only
thing that strengthens the
641
00:29:49,452 --> 00:29:51,881
connections between
the left and the right.
642
00:29:51,881 --> 00:29:54,617
So when you listen to music
and when you play music,
643
00:29:54,617 --> 00:29:58,518
it uses every single part of your brain,
644
00:29:58,518 --> 00:30:00,843
from the front to the back,
645
00:30:00,843 --> 00:30:03,606
from the right to the left.
646
00:30:03,606 --> 00:30:07,658
From the ancient structures
to the very new structures
647
00:30:07,658 --> 00:30:12,093
at the front, it even
stimulates the brain stem
648
00:30:12,093 --> 00:30:14,705
and that hence had a very
ancient role that it plays
649
00:30:14,705 --> 00:30:15,955
in our biology.
650
00:30:17,550 --> 00:30:20,580
- If what Zoe tells me is
true, then the power of music
651
00:30:20,580 --> 00:30:23,970
to cause sexual impulses
isn't just cultural
652
00:30:23,970 --> 00:30:26,687
or even a matter of personal choice.
653
00:30:26,687 --> 00:30:29,798
It's evolutionary,
hard-wired into the way our
654
00:30:29,798 --> 00:30:32,886
very brains have developed over millennia.
655
00:30:32,886 --> 00:30:35,615
I'm not sure I've got time
on this journey to go back
656
00:30:35,615 --> 00:30:38,715
to the birth of mankind,
but there are still some
657
00:30:38,715 --> 00:30:42,209
very important areas
where sex and music meet
658
00:30:42,209 --> 00:30:44,292
that I do need to get to.
659
00:30:48,990 --> 00:30:51,195
My mission to discover
if there's some kind of
660
00:30:51,195 --> 00:30:54,249
shared DNA between all
songs to have sex to
661
00:30:54,249 --> 00:30:57,685
has thrown up some pretty
interesting results from
662
00:30:57,685 --> 00:31:00,797
the role of philosophy,
the power of seduction,
663
00:31:00,797 --> 00:31:03,514
the importance of mood
setting to our evolution.
664
00:31:03,514 --> 00:31:06,602
And of course then there's
the claim that music is the
665
00:31:06,602 --> 00:31:10,769
only pursuit that links both
sides of the human brain.
666
00:31:11,780 --> 00:31:15,774
Sex and music go hand in
hand across all genres.
667
00:31:15,774 --> 00:31:17,922
But there is one musical tradition
668
00:31:17,922 --> 00:31:20,824
that has been more strongly
associated with seduction
669
00:31:20,824 --> 00:31:22,264
than all others.
670
00:31:22,264 --> 00:31:23,901
♫ "Try not to let you down
671
00:31:23,901 --> 00:31:26,083
♫ But I guess I make mistakes"
672
00:31:26,083 --> 00:31:27,871
- Black music culture seems to have a
673
00:31:27,871 --> 00:31:32,038
special place in the story
of songs to have sex to.
674
00:31:34,837 --> 00:31:38,111
Legendary producer and
musician Dennis Bovell
675
00:31:38,111 --> 00:31:41,432
is one of British black
music's influential figures,
676
00:31:41,432 --> 00:31:43,568
and has worked with artists from Fela Kuti
677
00:31:43,568 --> 00:31:45,818
and Madness to Marvin Gaye.
678
00:31:46,981 --> 00:31:49,396
I'm going to meet him in his
studio, where he's working
679
00:31:49,396 --> 00:31:51,660
with his latest protege, Karmy.
680
00:31:51,660 --> 00:31:53,878
(singing)
681
00:31:53,878 --> 00:31:57,545
(R&B/soul music)
682
00:32:00,484 --> 00:32:02,864
♫ What's my name, baby
683
00:32:02,864 --> 00:32:05,163
♫ Come join me on this crazy ride
684
00:32:05,163 --> 00:32:07,543
♫ Say my name, honey
685
00:32:07,543 --> 00:32:09,958
♫ There's a place for you by my side
686
00:32:09,958 --> 00:32:12,430
♫ What's my name, sugar
687
00:32:12,430 --> 00:32:14,845
♫ I won't stop til I hear the noise
688
00:32:14,845 --> 00:32:17,376
♫ Scream my name, darlin
689
00:32:17,376 --> 00:32:22,009
♫ I won't stop til I hear your voice
690
00:32:22,009 --> 00:32:23,530
- Yeah.
- Beautiful!
691
00:32:23,530 --> 00:32:24,667
- You know it is!
692
00:32:24,667 --> 00:32:27,883
- Still making music and
still finding great voices.
693
00:32:27,883 --> 00:32:30,615
- Yeah I've always
appreciated a good voice.
694
00:32:30,615 --> 00:32:34,448
Coming from a family of
vocalists and singers.
695
00:32:35,604 --> 00:32:37,833
- [Voiceover] Dennis was
also one of the creators of
696
00:32:37,833 --> 00:32:40,787
Lover's Rock, one of the
genres most associated with
697
00:32:40,787 --> 00:32:43,063
sex and seduction.
698
00:32:43,063 --> 00:32:46,906
"Silly Games", his 1979
hit for Janet Kay propelled
699
00:32:46,906 --> 00:32:49,959
Lover's Rock into the mainsteam.
700
00:32:49,959 --> 00:32:54,359
♫ ("Silly Games" by Janet Kay)
701
00:32:54,359 --> 00:32:56,443
"Silly Games", it's timeless!
702
00:32:56,443 --> 00:33:00,007
What is it about the female
voice that you drawn?
703
00:33:00,007 --> 00:33:03,014
- There wasn't a Shirley Bassey of reggae.
704
00:33:03,014 --> 00:33:06,056
So I tried to kind of make
a Shirley Bassey of reggae,
705
00:33:06,056 --> 00:33:10,119
you know, someone that had
quite a powerful voice.
706
00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:13,719
(singing) We play hide and seek.
707
00:33:13,719 --> 00:33:15,077
- What was the process for you when you
708
00:33:15,077 --> 00:33:17,097
set out to make that song?
709
00:33:17,097 --> 00:33:19,384
Because you talk about
the start of the song
710
00:33:19,384 --> 00:33:20,243
almost being like this kind of
711
00:33:20,243 --> 00:33:22,055
mating call-type thing.
- Yes.
712
00:33:22,055 --> 00:33:24,945
The intro to that song was
kind of a stand-off affair.
713
00:33:24,945 --> 00:33:28,092
It was, girl-meets-boy,
boy-meets-girl but they're not
714
00:33:28,092 --> 00:33:30,575
really sure, and the boy doesn't want to
715
00:33:30,575 --> 00:33:31,910
be slapped in the face
716
00:33:31,910 --> 00:33:34,209
and the girl doesn't
want to be knocked back.
717
00:33:34,209 --> 00:33:36,867
So the girl has the
brazenness to say, look
718
00:33:36,867 --> 00:33:39,189
I can see that you're shy, so,
719
00:33:39,189 --> 00:33:42,022
let's stop playing this silly game.
720
00:33:42,022 --> 00:33:43,996
♫ ("Silly Games" by Janet Kay)
721
00:33:43,996 --> 00:33:46,225
In the process of teaching her the song,
722
00:33:46,225 --> 00:33:50,392
when I hit the note- (sings high note)
723
00:33:51,682 --> 00:33:53,737
she looked at me in amazement, was like,
724
00:33:53,737 --> 00:33:55,536
"you can sing that note?"
725
00:33:55,536 --> 00:33:57,881
I go, "that's what I want you to sing!
726
00:33:57,881 --> 00:33:59,885
Said "give me that microphone".
727
00:33:59,885 --> 00:34:04,169
(laughs)
The rest is history!
728
00:34:04,169 --> 00:34:08,336
(singing) "To play,
your", everything, "game"
729
00:34:14,579 --> 00:34:15,412
Alright.
730
00:34:24,083 --> 00:34:26,058
All the way through the
song, from the intro
731
00:34:26,058 --> 00:34:29,785
to the end of the song, she's
almost having an orgasm.
732
00:34:29,785 --> 00:34:31,178
- Did you tell Janet all this,
733
00:34:31,178 --> 00:34:32,363
when you wrote the song?
- Oh no!
734
00:34:32,363 --> 00:34:34,446
(laughs)
735
00:34:38,350 --> 00:34:40,187
- Barry White is one of those names that
736
00:34:40,187 --> 00:34:44,100
pops off every time you
mention songs to have sex to.
737
00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:46,236
When you look at this list of singers,
738
00:34:46,236 --> 00:34:48,930
I mean most of them are black singers.
739
00:34:48,930 --> 00:34:52,041
Is that instinctive? Is that
something that is in the genes?
740
00:34:52,041 --> 00:34:53,620
- I think they're the
only ones that would dare.
741
00:34:53,620 --> 00:34:55,385
(laughs)
742
00:34:55,385 --> 00:34:59,414
Because I mean, James
Brown, quite earlier on
743
00:34:59,414 --> 00:35:02,792
he went, "get up! I feel
like a sex machine".
744
00:35:02,792 --> 00:35:04,975
You know it was like,
wow that's a bit risque.
745
00:35:04,975 --> 00:35:07,427
And then, Marvin Gaye came along, and
746
00:35:07,427 --> 00:35:09,645
cleaned up the whole act and suddenly,
747
00:35:09,645 --> 00:35:12,512
you had sex again and it
was "Sexual Healing" so
748
00:35:12,512 --> 00:35:16,095
it come from the obscene
to being medicine.
749
00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:23,887
♫ ("Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye)
750
00:35:25,724 --> 00:35:28,232
- You know, I started this
journey with an open mind,
751
00:35:28,232 --> 00:35:30,937
and look where I've ended up.
752
00:35:30,937 --> 00:35:33,687
With Marvin Gaye and Barry White.
753
00:35:38,333 --> 00:35:41,375
- "Sexual Healing" is, I
can't really explain it
754
00:35:41,375 --> 00:35:42,408
to be honest.
755
00:35:42,408 --> 00:35:44,358
I think it's the beat and
756
00:35:44,358 --> 00:35:47,772
you know those songs that
just, do it for you but
757
00:35:47,772 --> 00:35:50,890
there's no words to describe why.
758
00:35:50,890 --> 00:35:52,620
That's the song.
759
00:35:52,620 --> 00:35:53,665
- He was a sex idol.
760
00:35:53,665 --> 00:35:56,132
Men want to be him, women
want to be with him.
761
00:35:56,132 --> 00:35:59,393
You know, so (laughs).
762
00:35:59,393 --> 00:36:02,121
- Marvin Gaye is,
actually, kind of timeless.
763
00:36:02,121 --> 00:36:04,234
It's just that, ooh, that whole thing.
764
00:36:04,234 --> 00:36:07,287
It's sexy. Marvin Gaye, Barry White,
765
00:36:07,287 --> 00:36:09,145
all those sorts of things.
766
00:36:09,145 --> 00:36:10,608
I don't think there's
anything wrong with them,
767
00:36:10,608 --> 00:36:12,326
I think they're sexy songs.
768
00:36:12,326 --> 00:36:16,493
♫ ("Can't Get Enough of
Your Love" by Barry White)
769
00:36:19,037 --> 00:36:20,952
- His voice has something.
770
00:36:20,952 --> 00:36:23,367
His voice is incredibly sexy.
771
00:36:23,367 --> 00:36:27,791
Even as a man I can say
that his voice was sexy.
772
00:36:27,791 --> 00:36:30,914
And a woman would agree 100 percent.
773
00:36:30,914 --> 00:36:32,260
- I mean I've always
said my ideal threesome
774
00:36:32,260 --> 00:36:34,677
is Tom Jones and Barry White.
775
00:36:38,263 --> 00:36:40,480
- When it comes to songs to have sex to,
776
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,976
there's something very
powerful about those
777
00:36:42,976 --> 00:36:45,059
strong Black male voices.
778
00:36:46,686 --> 00:36:49,143
And who better to put
that in context than my
779
00:36:49,143 --> 00:36:52,347
old mate, and Britain's best-known R&B DJ,
780
00:36:52,347 --> 00:36:53,514
Trevor Nelson.
781
00:36:54,866 --> 00:36:56,910
- For me when you talk
about classic music,
782
00:36:56,910 --> 00:36:59,557
Isley Brothers, I mean look at these guys.
783
00:36:59,557 --> 00:37:01,182
Look at them.
- Oh man!
784
00:37:01,182 --> 00:37:03,585
- Rose in his hand, it's so cliche
785
00:37:03,585 --> 00:37:06,012
- But look at the titles of the tracks,
786
00:37:06,012 --> 00:37:07,831
"I Need Your Body", "Between the Sheets",
787
00:37:07,831 --> 00:37:09,062
"Let's Make Love Tonight".
788
00:37:09,062 --> 00:37:10,327
- Stop there, you don't need to go
789
00:37:10,327 --> 00:37:12,162
I don't even get to 2
790
00:37:12,162 --> 00:37:13,458
I don't touch side two,
should we hear this?
791
00:37:13,458 --> 00:37:15,361
(laughs)
792
00:37:15,361 --> 00:37:17,079
(moves record backwards)
793
00:37:17,079 --> 00:37:18,159
This is it for me.
794
00:37:18,159 --> 00:37:21,044
♫ ("Between the Sheets" by Isley Brothers)
795
00:37:21,044 --> 00:37:22,565
This tune, alright?
796
00:37:22,565 --> 00:37:23,815
It's so simple.
797
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:29,972
But it's so Isleys.
798
00:37:29,972 --> 00:37:33,502
♫ "Hey girl, ain't no mystery"
799
00:37:33,502 --> 00:37:35,127
Ah!
800
00:37:35,127 --> 00:37:38,210
- Back in the room, back in the room.
801
00:37:39,307 --> 00:37:41,954
It's no coincidence that
so many of these artists
802
00:37:41,954 --> 00:37:44,084
in these songs are black artists.
803
00:37:44,084 --> 00:37:45,605
- It's no coincidence.
804
00:37:45,605 --> 00:37:47,599
You know, the blues,
we know about the blues
805
00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:51,999
comes out of the fact that
the black race in America
806
00:37:51,999 --> 00:37:54,298
were always the bottom run.
807
00:37:54,298 --> 00:37:58,350
And one thing that had some
sort of parody was sex.
808
00:37:58,350 --> 00:38:00,916
You know you can be the
poorest person on the planet
809
00:38:00,916 --> 00:38:02,901
but you can have the
best sex in the world,
810
00:38:02,901 --> 00:38:04,387
you can have much better sex than
811
00:38:04,387 --> 00:38:05,954
the guy who runs Microsoft!
812
00:38:05,954 --> 00:38:07,928
And when you're singing about sex,
813
00:38:07,928 --> 00:38:10,354
it's easy and it's about meaning it!
814
00:38:10,354 --> 00:38:12,340
And I think that's why it's so convincing
815
00:38:12,340 --> 00:38:14,406
and I think that's why it's so seductive
816
00:38:14,406 --> 00:38:17,529
and obviously that
incredible natural voice
817
00:38:17,529 --> 00:38:20,118
that black people tend to possess.
818
00:38:20,118 --> 00:38:22,731
What about this, this
is Marvin Gaye, come on.
819
00:38:22,731 --> 00:38:25,540
I'm sure everyone's spoken
about him on this show
820
00:38:25,540 --> 00:38:27,119
already, right?
821
00:38:27,119 --> 00:38:27,952
About how important he is.
822
00:38:27,952 --> 00:38:29,618
- But how important is he to you?
823
00:38:29,618 --> 00:38:32,358
- Well, I think he's less
cheesy than Barry White.
824
00:38:32,358 --> 00:38:34,494
Barry White is your baby-making God.
825
00:38:34,494 --> 00:38:38,592
But this guy, I played
him at my first ever gig.
826
00:38:38,592 --> 00:38:40,113
And that was a school disco.
827
00:38:40,113 --> 00:38:42,203
My last song of the night
828
00:38:42,203 --> 00:38:45,106
was this, and my friends
were all dancing the
829
00:38:45,106 --> 00:38:46,743
girls apart from me.
830
00:38:46,743 --> 00:38:50,910
♫ ("Let's Get it On" by Marvin Gaye)
831
00:38:57,168 --> 00:38:58,254
- Listen to this.
832
00:38:58,254 --> 00:38:59,531
(reading) I can't see anything wrong with
833
00:38:59,531 --> 00:39:01,574
sex between consenting anybodies.
834
00:39:01,574 --> 00:39:04,186
I think we make far too
much of it, after all,
835
00:39:04,186 --> 00:39:07,105
one's genitals are just
one important part of the
836
00:39:07,105 --> 00:39:09,101
magnificent human body.
837
00:39:09,101 --> 00:39:10,936
I have no argument with the essential part
838
00:39:10,936 --> 00:39:12,851
they play in the
reproduction of the species.
839
00:39:12,851 --> 00:39:15,034
However, the reproductive process has been
840
00:39:15,034 --> 00:39:17,785
assured by the pleasure
both parties receive
841
00:39:17,785 --> 00:39:19,376
when they engage in it."
842
00:39:19,376 --> 00:39:21,849
- And that's the power of music.
843
00:39:21,849 --> 00:39:23,857
♫ "Let's get it on"
844
00:39:23,857 --> 00:39:25,036
(reading)
- "I hope the music that I
845
00:39:25,036 --> 00:39:28,256
present here makes you lucky." Woo-hoo!
846
00:39:28,256 --> 00:39:31,423
- For forty-odd years, he's not wrong.
847
00:39:34,746 --> 00:39:39,315
- It's really human, this
idea of having sex to music.
848
00:39:39,315 --> 00:39:41,022
- What's more beautiful than
849
00:39:41,022 --> 00:39:44,105
two people sharing the same pleasure.
850
00:39:46,003 --> 00:39:49,103
- Music has that kind of power, you know?
851
00:39:49,103 --> 00:39:52,470
- It puts the right sort
of beats into your body.
852
00:39:52,470 --> 00:39:55,053
♫ "I love you"
853
00:39:58,379 --> 00:40:00,585
- I started with a simple question:
854
00:40:00,585 --> 00:40:04,718
why are some songs great
songs to have sex to?
855
00:40:04,718 --> 00:40:08,724
But simple questions don't
always have simple answers.
856
00:40:08,724 --> 00:40:13,298
It's down to personal taste,
amongst many other factors.
857
00:40:13,298 --> 00:40:16,827
But from all the songs I've
encountered on this journey,
858
00:40:16,827 --> 00:40:20,994
here's what might make the
top ten songs to have sex to:
859
00:40:21,912 --> 00:40:26,079
♫ ("Gloria" by Patti Smith)
860
00:40:28,773 --> 00:40:32,940
♫ ("Je T'aime" by Jane
Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg)
861
00:40:35,054 --> 00:40:36,854
Before "Je T'aime", songs spoke about
862
00:40:36,854 --> 00:40:39,304
sex in code and double-entendre.
863
00:40:39,304 --> 00:40:44,098
But there was no doubting what
these two were talking about.
864
00:40:44,098 --> 00:40:48,265
♫ ("Sexy Boy" by Air)
865
00:40:49,834 --> 00:40:52,806
Air's blissed-out track for
the chill-out generation
866
00:40:52,806 --> 00:40:55,952
may well have been responsible
for the mini-population boom
867
00:40:55,952 --> 00:40:58,567
at the turn of the millennium.
868
00:40:58,567 --> 00:41:00,093
♫ ("Love to Love You
Baby" by Donna Summer)
869
00:41:00,093 --> 00:41:02,361
Unlike most of the sex people had to it,
870
00:41:02,361 --> 00:41:04,880
"Love to Love You Baby" lasted
871
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,157
16 minutes.
872
00:41:06,157 --> 00:41:08,119
♫ "Love to love you baby"
(moaning)
873
00:41:08,119 --> 00:41:12,731
♫ ("Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
874
00:41:12,731 --> 00:41:15,482
The amazing "Relax" became
a rallying cry for a
875
00:41:15,482 --> 00:41:18,815
newly-defiant gay movement in the 1980s.
876
00:41:25,142 --> 00:41:29,948
♫ ("Moments in Love" by Art of Noise)
877
00:41:29,948 --> 00:41:33,095
As much an artistic
experiment as it was a song,
878
00:41:33,095 --> 00:41:35,243
"Moments in Love" was a
crossover hit, as well
879
00:41:35,243 --> 00:41:36,993
as a bedroom classic.
880
00:41:39,167 --> 00:41:41,280
♫ ("Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye)
881
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,567
Marvin Gaye had a late career
comeback with one of the
882
00:41:43,567 --> 00:41:46,484
overtly sexual songs ever released.
883
00:41:49,372 --> 00:41:53,638
♫ ("Silly Games" by Janet Kay)
884
00:41:53,638 --> 00:41:56,796
In the otherwise
male-dominated reggae world,
885
00:41:56,796 --> 00:41:59,879
"Silly Games" put the sisters on top.
886
00:42:01,504 --> 00:42:05,671
♫ ("Between the Sheets" by Isley Brothers)
887
00:42:07,309 --> 00:42:10,246
This timeless track is a seduction staple,
888
00:42:10,246 --> 00:42:12,870
relied on for generations to set the mood
889
00:42:12,870 --> 00:42:14,120
in the bedroom.
890
00:42:18,965 --> 00:42:23,233
♫ "Makin' love, between the sheets"
891
00:42:23,233 --> 00:42:27,400
♫ ("Let's Get it On" by Marvin Gaye)
892
00:42:30,230 --> 00:42:33,667
And we climax with the
only man allowed in twice.
893
00:42:33,667 --> 00:42:36,395
This was a huge hit for
Marvin, and the tune that would
894
00:42:36,395 --> 00:42:40,395
top most people's lists
of songs to have sex to.
895
00:42:45,841 --> 00:42:46,822
♫ Woo
896
00:42:46,822 --> 00:42:49,661
♫ Let's get it on
897
00:42:49,661 --> 00:42:52,494
♫ Ahh, baby
898
00:42:52,494 --> 00:42:55,245
♫ Let's get it on
899
00:42:55,245 --> 00:42:58,496
♫ Let's love, baby
900
00:42:58,496 --> 00:43:01,863
♫ Let's get it on
901
00:43:01,863 --> 00:43:05,280
♫ Sugar, let's get it on
901
00:43:06,305 --> 00:43:12,560
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