Sexy-time soundtracks
Music can have an incredible impact on any part of one’s life at any moment in time. We associate certain songs with memories that have meaning to us – the music can sometimes enhance that memory. Music can raise you up with an uplifting beat or bring you right back down to earth with honest lyrics and a sobering melody.
So it really should be no surprise that I bring music into my sex column. The right tunes can change the mood or get you excited. And there’s no denying that nearly every musician is inherently sexy. So this week, I decided to ask a few music industry professionals about sex and music.
Question 1: Do you listen to music while having sex – if so who do you listen to and why?
Question 2: Who do you think is the sexiest musician (based primarily on their music, not necessarily their looks) and why?
Glenn Alderson: General Manager, Beatroute Magazine
Answer to question 2:
“If I had to pick the sexiest musician, I would say Stephen Merrit from the Magnetic Fields on the mere fact that every one of his songs is oozing with awkward sexuality. Sure he’s probably singing about dudes most of the time but he’s got this one song called “Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits.” I’m not sure exactly what he’s alluding to but it’s from this triple-disc record he put out back in 1999 called 69 Love Songs. I don’t know if you can get any sexier than that.”
Solomon Kane: Musician
Answer to question 1:
“I do listen to music while having sex, not always though. When I do, I guess it is for a number of reasons. I think that listening to music during sex makes it seem like more of an event, like a hot sex scene in a movie. Most people would like to have a soundtrack to their lives, especially during sex.”
I don’t think I am alone in this, but I like to use music as a benchmark. Certain songs that are associated to moments in time. I guess it just helps me remember the good times. More importantly the sexy good times. There are more reasons, but I guess those are the main ones.”
Dan Vacon: lead singer of The Dudes and The Dojo Workhorse
Answer to question 2:
“Probably Elvis. I think it’s mostly because of his confidence. How did he ever pull off the one-piece tasseled karate jumpsuit look? He was smart as hell and knew exactly how hilarious he was. It was a huge joke for him near the end. It was like, “Check out how insane I can act and watch everyone eat it up.” That’s what’s sexy to me.”
Heath McCoy: Calgary Herald entertainment reporter and music critic (he also plays the drums)
Answer to question 1:
“I make sweet love to the sounds of thrash metal — anything at a thousand beats per minute or more.
Then I turn on the jackhammer.” (Jaunty Jezebel note: he’s kidding. I was only allowed to include this if I made it clear he was joking.)
“No, that’s not true at all. Actually, I don’t like to listen to anything all that heavy when I’m getting busy.
For that, I generally prefer jazz — really seductive, romantic jazz. John Coltrane is perfect. Anything that rocks, with a really slamming beat, is too distracting for me, probably because I’m a drummer and obsessed with heavy beats. I get caught up in it and it throws me off.”
Sheena Jardine-Olade: DJ Donna Dada and Reflector contributor
Answer to question 1:
“I listened to music during sex mainly as background noise. A little something to fill in the dead space, and I never really noticed it nor chose to notice it just because I tended to be a little more focused on the task at hand.”
However, it wasn’t until I was travelling in Europe [that I had] a change of heart about that. I had taken home this Finnish boy who was obviously younger than me and still believed that skateboarding was the best form of transportation, that graffiti belonged in the streets and not the art galleries, and that it was okay to get a doctor’s note excusing him from the army because he was a chronic weed smoker.”
With this exuberance also came a love of all things hip-hop…but surprisingly good musical hip-hop. He had created me a playlist of all the hip-hop that he enjoyed, most of it American with a little bit of European and Finnish hip-hop thrown in there to round it off, towards the end it was strictly instrumental J Dilla (RIP).”
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