Strip Club Music
EastCoaster
I strongly prefer women of color. Every color.
As a working musician, I'm usually drawn instinctively to any music I hear, but in a strip club I tend not to pay much attention to it (unless it's too loud to allow conversation) because my focus is always on the girls. However, I want to pose a couple of questions to the group here on TUSCL to see if any of you can shed light on a particular kind of music that I hear only in strip clubs.
Let me add that in my life outside the clubs, I don't hear much rap or hip-hop, and regardless of the genre, I am usually focused more on the music than on the lyrics. However, there are times when something I hear really stands out in one way or another.
What I'm asking about today is the kind of songs where the lyrics are specifically about strippers, lap dances, and VIPs, or they are so sexually graphic that I doubt the songs could be played on the radio. There's one song I've heard where in the auto-tuned chorus the guy sweetly croons "You know I really wanna fuuuuuuuck you..." and another where the girl says "I wanna show you my pussy." There are others, but you get the idea and I'm sure you've heard this type of lyrics before. Yes, I'm aware that in 1975, Barry White recorded "Love Serenade, " which includes the lyrics "I wanna see you the way you came into the world, I don't wanna feel no clothes, I don't wanna see no panties. And take off that brassiere, my dear." But what I'm hearing today seems much more explicit.
My questions: Are songs like these played on the radio anywhere? Are they available on services like SiriusXM, Spotify, or Pandora? Are there studios that produce music just for strip clubs? Are there artists who make a living in this genre? Is there a name for this genre? Have I just been living under a rock and this is somehow mainstream now and I missed the launch party? Inquiring minds want to know.
Let me add that in my life outside the clubs, I don't hear much rap or hip-hop, and regardless of the genre, I am usually focused more on the music than on the lyrics. However, there are times when something I hear really stands out in one way or another.
What I'm asking about today is the kind of songs where the lyrics are specifically about strippers, lap dances, and VIPs, or they are so sexually graphic that I doubt the songs could be played on the radio. There's one song I've heard where in the auto-tuned chorus the guy sweetly croons "You know I really wanna fuuuuuuuck you..." and another where the girl says "I wanna show you my pussy." There are others, but you get the idea and I'm sure you've heard this type of lyrics before. Yes, I'm aware that in 1975, Barry White recorded "Love Serenade, " which includes the lyrics "I wanna see you the way you came into the world, I don't wanna feel no clothes, I don't wanna see no panties. And take off that brassiere, my dear." But what I'm hearing today seems much more explicit.
My questions: Are songs like these played on the radio anywhere? Are they available on services like SiriusXM, Spotify, or Pandora? Are there studios that produce music just for strip clubs? Are there artists who make a living in this genre? Is there a name for this genre? Have I just been living under a rock and this is somehow mainstream now and I missed the launch party? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Last week when I was in the club, I walked in to a Disturbed song (The Sickness) and I knew right away the owner was nowhere to be found.
I have asked strippers why they like music that is so degrading to them but I have never gotten an intelligible response. I think it's just part of the youth culture today, and they just go along with it without thinking about the implications of the lyrics.
I now like some of these songs as they remind me of some very special sexual times with some wonderful young sluts. As an aside, if you don't understand the lyrics, you can ask a stripper to translate. It's amazing some of the street jargon that I now understand through rap. If you get high and listen to the music, it will also make a lot more sense.
I think much of this music is now mainstream. My son has some of the songs on his phone for example and he's not a strip club regular. I don't think you can play some of this music on the radio without editing but I'd be willing to bet that you can hear it on satellite radio where there are not many rules. It's also freely available on aps like pandora which is how I think most young people get their music these days. I just shazam what I like and download it on iTunes. iTunes has almost all of the raunchiest stuff.
Drink beer and cry your self asleep like a real mang be about
I occasionally hear "clean" versions of some of these types of songs. I am quite certain there's a wider audience for these types of songs beyond the strip club, but I'm also quite certain that I am not in the target demographic :)
Probably not a coincidence, the clubs I go to tend to not play these types of explicit songs -- in fact, two of the clubs have a "Little or No Rap Music" policy in general. I actually dig the music I hear in the alcohol clubs I go to, and in at least one of the nude/extras clubs I go to (the girls generally pick their own music in that club, but the DJ has to approve)... I Shazam or SoundHound a song at least once or twice per trip, I thiink
I don't know the names of the songs but tunes like "let me see your pussy" or however it goes
and occasionally some other tunes. I only hear mainstream music on the large radio stations I listen to.
Now when I lived in a different location I occasionally listened to the University radio station. They played some off the wall tunes but nothing that graphic. The music does show up on youtube videos.
Rap/hip-hop came from the streets/hoods; and that is how the streets/hoods talk to a large extent AFAIK.
I have heard some SC music on satellite or online but for the most part I honestly don't remember what they played ITC because it all sounds like the same misogynistic chest thumping drivel to obviously cover up the fact that the "musician" has a premature ejaculating tiny dick. It usually goes in one ear and out the other. There are a handful of SC songs that are actually good and I have a few in our iTunes.
We've seen the gang banger sub group, car sub group, i smoke and drink so I'm chill sub group among others and over the last several years the stripper/i make it rain 'cause i can sub group has emerged. Problem I see is each one has to try and outdo the next one. There can't just be happy stripper songs keeping it fun. No, we have to have each new song get more and more derogatory about how we be fucking strippers because they're bitches and ho's. It's the lyrical version of a pissing match or whipping out your dicks and a measuring tape.
rockstar, I'd love to hear something you wrote.