As promised I will do a small blog about explicit lyrics/expressions in tunes and the reaction of those tunes in the begin Nineties on Dutch Radio. Singing about love and sex is of all times. Who doesn't remember the soft erotic track 'Je t'aime' by Serge Gainsbourg, with the vocals of Jane Birkin. The rumor at the time was that Jane wasn't singing the vocals but the beautiful actress Brigitte Bardot. But it's Jane Birkin who sang the vocals.
I don't know about that tune if the national top 40 played the tune on national radio, but it was a controversial tune back then. The first tune I want to mention is a tune by house producer Lil' Louis. The track was called 'French Kiss' and everybody remember the track because of the video. There was a small child who was playing with all kind of toys, and especially a toy monkey was drumming in the clip.
What was so special about the tune? Well, actually the track started as a 120 BPM track and about three minutes, the track begins to slow down until 80 BPM. It is also the moment why ´female kissing samples´ started in that break. When the record is on it´s slowest point, the track starts to become faster until the same speed of the beginning, also with those samples and the track will end about 10 minutes.
As you will probably know Holland is a country where a lot is tolerated, but on Dutch Radio and TV they draw a line with sexual content. And in this case the track did reach the number one position. Did they play the record on telly or on Radio=
Yes they actually did. But the commercials or the DJ started before the record went slower and the then shocking samples began. There was also another issue, sexual content on MTV and TMF was allowed after 23.00 EUT. Some more information about ´French Kiss´ is that the originally tune didn`t have the sexual content. The original track was from 1986, and in 1989 FFRR licensed the track from a small label Diamond records. And in England they also didn´t play the record. So they decided at FFRR to release some remixes, with actually vocals and some more edits and a instrumental version.
Second track in 1989 which caused trouble about sexual lyrics, is a tune by the HipHop collective the 2 Live Crew. The recordcompany and the 2 Live Crew themselves, already foresee, so they released two versions, the Nasty version and the Clean version. On Dutch Radio they broadcasted the Clean versions, with quite decent raps. This tune did make it to the number one position as well.
I think the 2 live crew was inspired by Tone Loc. Tone Loc did release some ´Wild Thing´ (1989) and 'Funky Cold Medina' (1989). Both tunes also have explicit lyrics, but the rap lyrics weren't that explicit. So both tunes were played on Dutch Radio and on Television. I'm asking myself, if both tunes nowadays will be played, because of Woke.
Hinco Heemskerk
Hello everybody,
As promised I will do a small blog about explicit lyrics/expressions in tunes and the reaction of those tunes in the begin Nineties on Dutch Radio. Singing about love and sex is of all times. Who doesn't remember the soft erotic track 'Je t'aime' by Serge Gainsbourg, with the vocals of Jane Birkin. The rumor at the time was that Jane wasn't singing the vocals but the beautiful actress Brigitte Bardot. But it's Jane Birkin who sang the vocals.
I don't know about that tune if the national top 40 played the tune on national radio, but it was a controversial tune back then. The first tune I want to mention is a tune by house producer Lil' Louis. The track was called 'French Kiss' and everybody remember the track because of the video. There was a small child who was playing with all kind of toys, and especially a toy monkey was drumming in the clip.
What was so special about the tune? Well, actually the track started as a 120 BPM track and about three minutes, the track begins to slow down until 80 BPM. It is also the moment why ´female kissing samples´ started in that break. When the record is on it´s slowest point, the track starts to become faster until the same speed of the beginning, also with those samples and the track will end about 10 minutes.
As you will probably know Holland is a country where a lot is tolerated, but on Dutch Radio and TV they draw a line with sexual content. And in this case the track did reach the number one position. Did they play the record on telly or on Radio=
Yes they actually did. But the commercials or the DJ started before the record went slower and the then shocking samples began. There was also another issue, sexual content on MTV and TMF was allowed after 23.00 EUT. Some more information about ´French Kiss´ is that the originally tune didn`t have the sexual content. The original track was from 1986, and in 1989 FFRR licensed the track from a small label Diamond records. And in England they also didn´t play the record. So they decided at FFRR to release some remixes, with actually vocals and some more edits and a instrumental version.
Second track in 1989 which caused trouble about sexual lyrics, is a tune by the HipHop collective the 2 Live Crew. The recordcompany and the 2 Live Crew themselves, already foresee, so they released two versions, the Nasty version and the Clean version. On Dutch Radio they broadcasted the Clean versions, with quite decent raps. This tune did make it to the number one position as well.
I think the 2 live crew was inspired by Tone Loc. Tone Loc did release some ´Wild Thing´ (1989) and 'Funky Cold Medina' (1989). Both tunes also have explicit lyrics, but the rap lyrics weren't that explicit. So both tunes were played on Dutch Radio and on Television. I'm asking myself, if both tunes nowadays will be played, because of Woke.
This is part one of the explicit blog...
Yours Sincerely,
Hinco
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