THE TOP FIVE SLEAZIEST SPOKEN LINES IN POP SONGS

Sometimes subliminal messages just don’t cut it in pop songs. For a good dose of in-your-face sleaze (stylish or vulgar), composers employ the trick of making singers chant some words that would hopefully encourage listeners to buy records right after they, er, satisfy their basic instincts.

Admittedly, the sleaze factor of the spoken lines are affected by their speakers. It helps if the speaker/singer already has some sexy-sleazy vibe going for him or her.

1. Best used in club or bar hook-ups and in making propositions for quickies in an elevator or airplane restroom.

Just something about you
The way I’m lookin’ at you whatever
You keep lookin’ at me
You gettin’ scared now, right?
Don’t fear me baby, it’s just destiny
It feel good right?

Who and Where in “Like I Love You”
Sleaze Factor This is a one-night stand notice and also a veiled advertisement of dick size. The sleaze index is spiked by the fact that the singer is rumored to be the one who popped the cherry of…

2. Best used in the heat of the moment and when you have to reach your climax in a hurry because your legal spouse is unexpectedly already on his/her way home.

Will you touch mine?
Will you touch me baby? Right here

Who and Where in “Good Enough”
Sleaze Factor Does this even need an explanation? The singer/speaker is a certified bad boy who has been blamed for making a complete mess out of a very nice woman’s life.

3. Best used for wooing emotionally vulnerable women who think that everyone tells the truth. It can also be used as an effective spiel for calming down or winning back naive women who are nonetheless on the verge of wising up or getting cold feet.

I wonder if you’re lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the world’s a stage
And each must play a part
Fate had me playing in love with you as my sweetheart
Act one was when we met
I loved you at first glance
You read your lines so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two
You seemed to change, you acted strange
And why I’ll never know
Honey, you lied when you said you love me
And I had no cause to doubt you
But I’d rather go on hearing your lies
Than to go on living without you
Now the stage is bare and I’m standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won’t come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down

Who and Where in “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
Sleaze Factor The words may seem harmlessly mushy at first but read again and you will begin to feel creeped out by its stalker-esque leanings. The singer/speaker lived large and pursued a 14-year-old girl relentlessly until she finally became his wife! That’s either devotion or something else.

4. Best used for telling your consenting sex slave to shut up and just enjoy the dripping of the candle wax.

Be quiet, big boys don’t cry
Big boys don’t cry

Who and Where in “I’m Not In Love”
Sleaze Factor The lines have sadomasochistic charm. Though the band responsible for the music is not identified as particularly notorious, they managed to generate a sleaze buzz with these lines. According to the Wikipedia entry, “the instrumental break featured the repeated spoken phrase was spoken by Kathy Warren, the receptionist of the Strawberry Studios where the band recorded the track.” This was a stroke of sleaze genius by the band, if you ask me.

5. Best used for explaining to the cops and/or the judge why you ran naked across a football stadium or why you and an accomplice willfully shocked crowds by doing the nasty at the back of a church.

I’m not sorry
It’s human nature

Express yourself, don’t repress yourself

I’m not apologizing
Would it sound better if I were a man?
You’re the one with the problem
Why don’t you just deal with it

I don’t have to justify anything

Oops, I didn’t know I couldn’t talk about sex

Who and Where in “Human Nature”
Sleaze Factor Hey, it’s Madonna!!! The songs trip hop beat is the perfect suggestive rhythm for the song’s lyrics. The spoken (more like whispered) segments were cleverly interspersed with the lyrics. Sheer provocative genius.