Name: Top 10 Blatant Innuendos In Pop Songs
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Welcome to watchmojo and today we're counting down our picks for those songs that weren't even attempting subtlety when it came to some obvious innuendo.

This British groups certainly weren't mincing about when it came to the sexually charged video clip for Relax.

The homegrown controversy behind Frankie Goes to Hollywood was actually so noteworthy back in the day that it got them briefly banned by the BBC.

There was no stopping Frankie Goes to Hollywood from taking over their early 80s world.

However, despite some humdrumming about how Relax freely celebrated its frank and explicit sexuality, the musical side of things seemed to echo this sentiment as well, as the booming bass and pulsing synth drives home Relax with a vibe that's almost menacing with how intensely it intends to make its presence known as an ode to catch and release seduction.

We be here all day if we were to attempt counting all of the myriad ways songs have utilized placeholder metaphors in lieu of referencing private parts or the sexual act Whistle by Flo Rida actually references both of these things, since the song is a not so subtle ode to one very specific sort of act.

On that spectrum, Flo Rida also chooses the word whistle as a noun to describe an aspect of his anatomy.

So yeah, the meaning becomes very clear here right from the get go.

Although we guess you could just take whistle at face value.

Maybe Flo Rida just likes to whistle while he works.

Yeah, we'll just keep telling ourselves that.

This tune didn't need to be a single in order for it to briefly earn her the ire of Katy Perry's record company Capitol.

The label initially didn't want Peacock to be included on Perry's third lp, Teenage Dream, but

So what we're left with is, well, it's a song.

A song that makes snow bones about comparing the male peacock's beautiful plumage with some low hanging comedic fruit.

she's not gonna rest until it's shown off in all of its presumed glory.

It's silly and juvenile, sure, but Teenage Dream did just fine on its own, with or without Pecan.

There's nothing new concerning the habitual inclusion of sexual innuendo within music that's being marketed to a te preteen audience.

Evidence of this promotional strategy can be traced back to the bubblegum pop artists of the 60s and 70s, while Christina Aguilera's debut single, Genie in a Bottle was a great example of this tactic taking shape in the late 90s.

The song's three songwriters clearly knew what their audience might infer via the whole rub me the right way bit from the song's chorus.

Elsewhere, the verses also make no bones about how the protagonist clearly wants to do something, yet is reluctant to go all the way.

It's an interesting visual juxtaposition against Aguilera's 2012 single Dirty, which was, well, exactly that.

The songwriters behind the behind the Starland Vocal Band are famous, and

not just for their 1976 hit Afternoon Delight.

Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert co wrote Take Me Home, Country Roads with John Denver, but

that little bit of trivia likely pales in comparison to the hubbub caused by their group, the Starland Vocal Band.

That's because Afternoon Delight was a song that celebrated what used to be referred to as a nooner slang for a sexual rendezvous that takes place during the day.

The Skyrockets in flight referenced in the song represent the after effects from such activity, a rather innocent ode to getting away for a bit with somebody you love.

Skyrockets in flight, Afternoon Daylight five.

Sure, it might have been easy for us to go with something more on the nose, a la I Touch Myself by the Divinyls, but

for our money, Cyndi Lauper's She Bop plays around a little better with its innuendo.

actually a lot of people knew exactly what Lauper was cooking up with Shebop even back in the 1980s.

After all, the subject of female self love, of the sexual variety, wasn't exactly commonplace around this time.

But Lauper, to her credit, does such a good job on the entire tune.

The musical hooks are catchy, Lauper's vocals are on point, and

she Bop remains one of this unusual star's biggest hits.

Every decade has retained its own unique style of novelty hit that will forever remind those that were there about their youth.

Youth's strangest and perhaps questionable musical hits.

Aqua's Barbie Girl just happens to be one of those defining tunes for the late 90s, a song that wears its vapidness upon a sleeve while at the same time winking to its core audience.

Both band and fan alike knew what was going on here as Aqua played around with the Barbie doll's complex history of sexual politics.

In the sense being in on the joke has allowed for Barbie Girl to endure a lot longer than other, perhaps less self aware contemporaries of its day.

Here's a Do you think that anybody was fooled by the artwork that accompanied the Clean version of this 1996 single from Genuine?

We find it hard to believe, even if that release of Pony did feature a normal, everyday looking horse.

Equine jokes aside, the actual sound of Pony is so filthy that it almost doesn't need to play around with innuendo.

That sweaty R and B groove practically drips with an almost humid air, while Genuine knowingly plays around with the song's subject matter in a manner that's keenly self aware.

There were a lot of erotically charged RB tunes released back in the 90s, but

Pony is definitely remembered more than most.

It's refreshing in a way to discuss and unpack all of the things that helped make Milkshake a hit for Khalees back in the day.

The singer told About.com about how the song's point was to celebrate that something that makes women special, and

this overarching intent makes it easy for listeners to decide for themselves what that something is exactly.

The titular milkshake could mean a literal swaying of the hips, or it could be a certain level of confidence or grace that others find attractive.

Thus, it's cool that this jam for Khalees keeps this out of the gutter for once, at least.

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Heavy metal was a big business on the pop charts back in the 1980s and into the 90s.

This was where Warrant's cherry pie made a huge impact, reaching number 10 on the Billboard top 100 despite its rather on the nose brand of lyrical innuendo.

This was actually by design, since songwriter James Lane composed what he felt was a throwaway tune for Warrant's label, Columbia.

Cherry Pie was a certified hit, however, which effectively ended earlier plans to call the album Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Lane and crew were now saddled with the albatross of a novelty song that was full of fruit puns as their definitive radio tune, and

they weren't exactly thrilled from a creative standpoint?

Should artists go all in with their innuend or shoot for subtlety?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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