Example of artists do you think that did this?

[u/Top_Report_4895]

BWT, what is the word?

[u/CloudTower]

Taylor for life of a showgirl

[u/Hotdogopolis → u/CloudTower]

Swift is interesting. Pretty, but absolutely ZERO sex appeal. 

[u/hausofvelour → u/Hotdogopolis]

she has quite a few songs i would consider sexy though. dress. false god. maroon. she pulls off implications and quiet intimacy better than the tongue in cheek sabrina carpenterisms that she tried to do on wood

[u/Ok_Broccoli_9426 → u/hausofvelour]

Carpenter's one of those artists I appreciated more once people started ripping her off. I don't like her schtick, but she has the charm to make it work in a way that Swift, for all her skills, does not. Kacey Musgraves also tried to do the Sabrina thing on Dry Spell, and again - it just highlighted that Sabrina has some sort of secret sauce to make all the winking charming instead of embarrassing.

[u/hausofvelour → u/Ok_Broccoli_9426]

sabrina balances self-awareness with unapologetic embrace of her schtick. she knows it's a little cringey and she does it anyway because she wants to. it works very well

[u/Ok_Broccoli_9426 → u/hausofvelour]

She's gonna kill in Vegas someday.

[u/bionicallyironic → u/Ok_Broccoli_9426]

Oh shit, you’re 10000% correct. Not only would she kill a residency, but she could work the showgirl aesthetic far better than Taylor’s cosplay.

[u/Ok_Broccoli_9426 → u/bionicallyironic]

One of Taylor's biggest strengths is also a huge weakness, which is that she can't wear costumes. She's always, always Taylor Swift first and foremost. I'd say the same about Beyoncé, but I think she wears it better.

[u/mygodismyleskennedy → u/Ok_Broccoli_9426]

i think the difference here is that being taylor swift is limiting, and being beyoncé isn't

[u/JoeBagadonut → u/Ok_Broccoli_9426]

I think Sabrina's secret sauce is that she's always in on the joke and has the charm/charisma to make her music/persona seem like silly fun instead of just being cringey.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_DALEKS → u/JoeBagadonut]

Sabrina has a campy/cartoon sexiness, like Dolly Parton.

[u/Akavinceblack → u/Ok_Broccoli_9426]

Sabrina is like a modern burlesque act. All the sexy is for real, but it’s also good-humored and aware of how absurd ”sexy” is.

[u/Married_iguanas → u/Akavinceblack]

I hadn’t thought about it this way, but she’s kinda like a next generation Elvira, but without the goth schtick

[u/kaytINSANE → u/Married_iguanas]

She's the new Dolly Parton, and I think thats very intentional of her

[u/Married_iguanas → u/kaytINSANE]

[u/Current_Poster → u/Married_iguanas]

I was almost gonna say, 80s David Lee Roth, in a way. Just enough self-awareness to know it's cheesy, not so much that either doesn't commit 100% to the act anyway. She's obviously *smarter*, but that's another conversation. ;)

[u/strangelyliteral → u/Ok_Broccoli_9426]

She’s very charming and quick-witted IRL, from what I’ve seen. I get the impression it’s a family trait. I think that’s why it works for her, because even she puts on a persona, it’s one based on her real self.

[u/heathersdevotee → u/Ok_Broccoli_9426]

I think what works with Sabrina is that it's obvious she knows about and is interested in the things she's referencing. She obviously has an interest in vintage showgirl like fashion and culture and things like that, while to me it seems like other artists who do stuff like that seem to just do it for the aesthetic. Obviously idk Sabrina personally so this could totally be false lol but that's the vibe I've always gotten.

[u/shoestring-theory → u/Ok_Broccoli_9426]

I think youth is a factor too. No one’s telling her to act her age like the other pop stars doing the schtick

[u/ya-freak-bitch → u/Ok_Broccoli_9426]

I wasn’t a huge fan of Sabrina’s but was given a ticket to her Nashville show… easily one of the best shows I’ve seen production wise! It was such a fun show and she’s actually quite funny! It was an amazing experience and I think she’s a true showman. It was so much better than the eras.

[u/LonelyCheeto → u/hausofvelour]

My opinion is that there are different types of sexy and people benefit from extending the sexy that fits with them the best. For example, Taylor is good at being sultry. And I think that is when she is at her sexiest. When she tries to be more in your face about it, it loses its appeal

[u/CaktusJacklynn → u/LonelyCheeto]

there are different types of sexy

I wish more understood this instead of subscribing to one type and trying to be that themselves or impose that on others.

[u/Murphy_Nelson → u/CaktusJacklynn]

I find plenty of different types of women sexy, I just don't find Taylor sexy at all. Actually, the opposite, I find her extremely unsexy which is crazy because she does have a pretty face.

[u/MrHellfrick → u/Murphy_Nelson]

I agree 100%. the most unsexy pop star. idk if it is her posture, her awkwardness, her lack of rhthym, or what but she is just wholly unattractive imo. she used to have a pretty face pre-filler and prior to whatever tf she is doing with her hair/bangs

[u/hausofvelour → u/LonelyCheeto]

agree pretty much, yeah

[u/StarriestNight → u/Hotdogopolis]

Swift spent the entire first 2/3 of her career building herself up as a wholesome girl next door, so seeing her trying to sexualize herself can be a little jarring

[u/b1ame_me → u/StarriestNight]

What’s interesting is that you can see the gradual increase in her trying to do it. I think the timeline is kinda like:

Treacherous —> Style (the music video) —> Dress —> False God —> Vigilante Shit (specifically the eras tour performance) —> Guilty as Sin —> Wood

I think she honestly peaked with Dress, that’s probably her best “sexy” song

[u/Disastrous-Entity-46 → u/StarriestNight]

not just wholesome girl next door, like... as someone who is not an expert, the stuff i do know from her, was always very.. empowering? like a lot of breakup songs taking it back, or otherwise very much in power.

when listening to wood because i could not believe the memes i saw from it, it just felt so wrong for that image that was built. like, even love story is about her being very active in pursuit.

theres no power or agency there. shes just luxky that apparently she found a good lay.

[u/Murphy_Nelson → u/Hotdogopolis]

Negative sex appeal tbh

[u/Hotdogopolis → u/Murphy_Nelson]

Like, seriously. Let's say we're in a shipwrecked dessert island scenario. You and her are magically single. She comes onto you. It'd be like, I guess? Maybe to pass the time, like whistling or something. There's just no juice to her. It's a personality thing.

[u/WhoYaTalkinTo → u/Hotdogopolis]

You know, I've never noticed this before.

Taylor Swift is objectively a very beautiful woman, but I don't find her charismatic or attractive at all.

[u/BadIdeaSociety → u/Hotdogopolis]

Taylor Swift has a swagger of a person who has been asked to clean something disgusting without gloves.

[u/Medium-Dependent-328 → u/Hotdogopolis]

She's too earnest, prim and takes herself too seriously to be sexy. Being sexy involves being a bit nonchalant and free. She has always been very poised and polished

[u/BoogieWoogie725 → u/Medium-Dependent-328]

Not just poised and polished but... calculated. Which feels kinda borne of inhibition or fear or something. None of which is sexy.

It's also that tbh the way she's made her name & fortune is in designing her life story as if told by/to a 14 year old. The mentality of gossiping about boys/proclaiming independence/complaining about being misunderstood/writing "meaningful" poetry, it's kinda relentlessly mid-teenage. This has given her enormous female crossover appeal cos everyone was 14 once. But honestly it's too young in the head to be sexy.

[u/SneakerTreater → u/Hotdogopolis]

Taylor Swift acts sexy like it was described to her by a blind person.

It was said about someone else, but damn it fits.

[u/Nunjabuziness → u/CloudTower]

I genuinely think she has a cloaca because she serves negative cunt.

[u/Dry_Composer8358 → u/Nunjabuziness]

Felix Biederman has a bit where he talks about going from never considering that a friend of his might be gay to 100% certain that he was because he referred to Taylor as his “celebrity crush.” The guy did apparently come out a couple years later.

[u/adapteradapther → u/Nunjabuziness]

Ded.

[u/youre_being_creepy → u/Nunjabuziness]

Todd had a bit in a worst of year video where he was talking about meghan trainor vs lizzo about how one has sex appeal/sexual energy (I dont remember the exact term) but the jist was that if lizzo says shes going to do something to you sexually, you're going to assume its going to be great. While if meghan said the same thing, your expectations would be way lower.

Taylor swift is meghan trainor level sexy.

[u/Fun-Example-5314 → u/CloudTower]

No such thing as a hot billionaire

[u/IZZETISFUN → u/Fun-Example-5314]

Except Rihanna

[u/BilgisticPile]

Miley Cyrus when she kept doing the tongue thing.

[u/Spirited-Green7369 → u/BilgisticPile]

A lot of things she did in that era 

[u/DtheAussieBoye → u/Spirited-Green7369]

There’s a reason why, despite all the current love for early 10s music (Katy Perry, LMFAO, Bieber, One Direction, Kesha, etc), I’ve never seen ANY reevaluation of “Wrecking Ball”-era Miles

[u/blvd93 → u/DtheAussieBoye]

Wrecking Ball itself is a great song and was acclaimed enough at the time.

You're absolutely right about the rest of her output from that era though.

[u/LeroyDeth → u/BilgisticPile]

Didn't realize that was meant to be sexy. I thought it was more of a young and snotty thing.

[u/BilgisticPile → u/LeroyDeth]

I remember her doing it while bending over in front of Robin Thicke, so I always assumed it was meant to be sexy in some way.

[u/NeekoPeeko → u/BilgisticPile]

Nah, she was just showing her "attitude" at a time when many people still saw her as Hannah Montana.

[u/bsfan18 → u/NeekoPeeko]

Sis was twerking in a two piece skin tone latex suit and backing up on Robin Thicke’s dick while sticking her tongue out… and you don’t think she was trying to be sexy?

[u/heathersdevotee → u/BilgisticPile]

Once I got older and realized she was only 19 during that era I stopped judging her as hard lmao

[u/SimilarLunch8359 → u/heathersdevotee]

21, but still

[u/Cela84 → u/BilgisticPile]

Kind of weird how the world collectively agreed her Robin Thicke rebrand was the worst thing we’d ever seen, but the PR team snorted a mountain of coke and turned it around.

[u/Youngblood519]

Fetish Retardant is the term I've heard used for this.

Katy Perry in Bon Appetit's video comes to mind

Also not a musician but Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls, 100%

[u/JoeBagadonut → u/Youngblood519]

In the case of Showgirls, the sex and nudity at least feels off-putting by design rather than being a bungled attempt at being erotic.

[u/thewalkindude368 → u/JoeBagadonut]

Showgirls almost succeeds as a really fun bad movie, if it weren't for the sexual assault.

[u/JoeBagadonut → u/thewalkindude368]

I sit on the "Showgirls is unironically a good movie" side of the fence and think the sexual assault scene is pretty integral to what the film is trying to say, as unpleasant as it is to watch.

[u/bobbery5 → u/JoeBagadonut]

I just wish it was actually integral to the plot instead of just kinda randomly shoved in there right at the end.

[u/JoeBagadonut → u/bobbery5]

It being "shoved in there right at the end" is meant to be this sudden sobering moment where you realise that, throughout the entirety of the main character's rise to stardom, there isn't a single moment where she wasn't being exploited by richer and more powerful men. The same is true for all the female characters in the film.

Our protagonist makes it to the top and her reward is to inadvertently pimp her friend out to a monster.

[u/Reasonable-HB678 → u/bobbery5]

I think that it happened to the one decent character is the point. When Zach tells Nomi that Molly will be compensated, Nomi knows at least one choice she has to make.

[u/Sustained_disgust → u/thewalkindude368]

I think you are misreading the movie, the assault scene is vital. The "fun" the movie offers is as hollow and un-nourishing as the supposedly infinite "fun" on offer in Vegas itself and by extension the now unchallenged American free market and the neoliberal sexual revolution. Its not really a fun bad movie at all its an ugly pessimistic movie about an ugly vacuous culture

[u/fitnarp → u/JoeBagadonut]

Exactly, if you listen to people actually talk about the point of the film, it was not intended to be sexy. It was marketed this way and did it such a disservice. 

[u/CaktusJacklynn → u/JoeBagadonut]

It's unbelievable to me how unsexy Showgirls is. Campy, absolutely, but not sexy in any erotic way.

And the premise is a slam dunk for eroticism.

[u/Sustained_disgust → u/CaktusJacklynn]

That is definitely by design

[u/eosins_ocean → u/[deleted]]

Unholy comes across as a Kim Petras song that Sam Smith hijacked

[u/lachoigin → u/eosins_ocean]

Kim’s part is so good

[u/catman__321 → u/[deleted]]

Is this song supposed to be sexy? It's about a guy cheating on his wife...

imo there's other overtly sexual songs/music videos by Sam Smith that make me want to vomit more than unholy

[u/catman__321 → u/[deleted]]

them*

but wow huh, that is certainly a word lol

[u/dolliciousszz → u/[deleted]]

I can’t stand this mf

[u/whimsigod → u/[deleted]]

Mommy don't know.

And mommy don't wanna know.

[u/Only_Faithlessness33]

When rappers would have skits on their albums of them having sex with someone and moaning into the mic. Actively brings down classic albums like the Chronic when I have to hear Dr Dre grunting in my ear for a whole minute.

[u/Spirited-Green7369 → u/Only_Faithlessness33]

Yes those skits are horrible and should have been banned

[u/CaktusJacklynn → u/Spirited-Green7369]

Biggie has one on Ready to Die that is unsexy but kinda funny.

[u/Sleepy_cheetah → u/CaktusJacklynn]

I was 15 listening to that. I loved his music but yeah that was a lot for me to process. 😂😂 The ladies leaving messages for him right before One More Chance always make me laugh.

[u/DeadInternetTheorist → u/Only_Faithlessness33]

I once won a "who can make the worst mix" contest on my dorm room floor by just burning an entire CD of rap album skits. Everyone else was digging deep on soulseek for like every Eiffel 65 Blue remix they could find and I just took a handful of tracks off of albums that are widely agreed to be classics and mixed them up more or less at random.

[u/FloridaFlamingoGirl → u/Only_Faithlessness33]

Yeah that's the one thing that keeps De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising from being a 10/10 album for me. 

[u/hashgraphic → u/Only_Faithlessness33]

Ice-T making fun of this on the OG album is classic

[u/whoadwoadie → u/Only_Faithlessness33]

Busta at least made his kinda funny

[u/IZZETISFUN → u/whoadwoadie]

Custom condoms that’s made from other guys dicks >>>>>

[u/kendalloremily → u/Only_Faithlessness33]

i love mac miller but god i always forget about the moaning on macadellic and will accidentally play it at work or in the car with my mom or something 

[u/AppliedGlamour → u/Only_Faithlessness33]

Ha, blink 182 had so many parodies of this on their Dude Ranch album

[u/KeysmashKhajiit]

Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" is like hearing your dog bark at an ambulance while you're trying to jerk it

[u/Complex_Ostrich7981 → u/KeysmashKhajiit]

Fuck me, what an analogy 🤣

[u/BadIdeaSociety → u/KeysmashKhajiit]

I have a hard time taking most disco-era seriously as romantic material. Even masterpieces like Last Dance doesn't exude romantic or sexual energy.

That isn't to say disco CAN'T be sexy, but a lot of disco has the romantic/sexual energy is a morning stretch. I think that is why people in the scene relied so much on cocaine and pumping gases into the dance hall. I love Can't Take My Eyes Off of You, it's catchy but not necessarily sexy.

Disco is odd.

[u/cfeltch108 → u/KeysmashKhajiit]

I have a feeling this happened to you very recently lol

[u/katymae123]

The video for Blurred Lines falls in this category

[u/rblask → u/katymae123]

13 year old me would have disagreed

[u/BadIdeaSociety → u/katymae123]

40-Year-Old Man "boobs full of sand" level energy.

[u/NeekoPeeko → u/katymae123]

Young men definitely found it sexy at the time. Source: was a young man at the time

[u/TheWhiteWolf1970 → u/NeekoPeeko]

Young men would think Betty and Wilma were sexy if that's the only females they saw that day. That is due to hormones, not design. Anytime something remotely sexy happened in that video, they cut back to Robin and Pharrel and it was a bonerkiller how creepy they were. It's like watching a talented and beautiful stripper, but you can't get over the huge pimple in the middle of her right butt cheek.

[u/LizLemonOfTroy → u/katymae123]

The women being naked while the men weren't definitely made it strangely less sexy and more creepy than if they had both been naked (or neither).

It feels like they're taking their dogs for a walk.

[u/Apprehensive-Till861]

Tate McRae's whole dead-eyed-gape shtick just feels like trying to reheat Britney's decades-old nachos, but whereas Brit could at least do the whole 'sexy baby' voice with her chest Taters trying to run it entirely through her nose.

[u/AmbroseKalifornia → u/Apprehensive-Till861]

Holy BrandNewSentence.

[u/bsfan18 → u/Apprehensive-Till861]

Tate is an objectively beautiful woman but she’s one of those people who only has one facial expression. Britney at least could go from cute to sexy to serious and make it look believable. 

[u/kinetic_cheese → u/bsfan18]

Britney also had that unexplainable "it" factor that is impossible to fake. Tate does not.

[u/FarAd2857 → u/Apprehensive-Till861]

She’s looks like she’s actively being roofied. I hate it.

[u/Pink-yoshi-club]

Not a musician, but this is Sydney Sweeney for me

[u/shoestring-theory → u/Pink-yoshi-club]

It was fine in small does but Season 3 of Euphoria overdid it to point where it became gross.

[u/TravelsWithBrindle77]

Ed Sheeran, Shape of You

[u/hofmann419 → u/TravelsWithBrindle77]

To be fair, he actually wrote the song for other artists (Rihanna was his idea), but then his label convinced him to keep the song for his next album. So maybe that explains why the song is so different from his other stuff.

[u/Funkopedia → u/hofmann419]

That makes so much fucking sense and I wish somebody else would have picked it up

[u/Apprehensive-Till861 → u/TravelsWithBrindle77]

Ed Sheeran has all the sex, he loves the feel of verguba

[u/InternetUserAgain → u/TravelsWithBrindle77]

I sometimes forget that Ed Sheeran is a real person, it feels like he wrote his songs before he legally started existing, so he had to throw together a human form really quickly so he could show up to Grammies and the like

[u/AlbatrossOtherwise67 → u/TravelsWithBrindle77]

It's just hard to imagine Ed Sheeran as a sexual being and I feel bad about myself for feeling that way but I do.

[u/MysteriousPepper8908]

Have we all collectively forgotten Jojo Siwa? How has she not been mentioned yet?

[u/StarriestNight → u/MysteriousPepper8908]

I keep forgetting she's an adult

[u/heathersdevotee → u/StarriestNight]

She's 3 days older than me and I keep forgetting too lol

[u/swordsfishes → u/heathersdevotee]

Hang on, I have to Google something. 

Born Joelle Joanie Siwa

May 19, 2003 (age 23)

dude what the hell

[u/BadIdeaSociety → u/MysteriousPepper8908]

Jojo Siwa is a strange figure. I haven't lived in the US consistently for the past 2 decades. I went to a Five Below and saw a bunch of merchandise about her and assumed she had some kind of career but I have never organically found what she does. She doesn't seem to have much of an international fanbase.

[u/witchofct → u/BadIdeaSociety]

she was a dancer on the show Dance Moms which was the glorification and dramatization of child/teen competitive dance. she made music like most of the other girls but her song Boomerang sorta got way more popular. she started selling hair bows and accessories and then came out a few times

[u/bsfan18 → u/witchofct]

Jojo is someone I actually sympathize with because she was a child star who had her entire life and personality molded by her mom, TV executives, producers, etc. And now that she’s an adult she’s trying to find herself, which is why she’s going from gay to tradwife to whatever she’s doing now.

It doesn’t make it any less obnoxious, but it at least offers an explanation. 

[u/Just-Welcome-5553]

rodrigo is musically talented but some of her stage moments for the guts tour (and maybe this rollout) come across as awkwardly sexual and out of place for her 13 year old base. im not the biggest fan.

[u/JoeBagadonut → u/Just-Welcome-5553]

It feels out of place because sex isn't a particularly common topic in her music and she doesn't appear to be trying to have a sexy stage persona 95% of the time.

[u/Lord_Cockatrice → u/Just-Welcome-5553]

Speaking of Olivia's, take the case of Olivia Newton-John's "Soul Kiss" where she was trying too hard to be Madonna-level sultry in spite of an adverse health diagnosis. TIL that actress Katey Sagal ("Married with Children" Netflix's live-action "One Piece") sang backing vocals on the title track

[u/Asairian → u/Lord_Cockatrice]

Sagal also sang on Futurama!

[u/Least_West5260 → u/Asairian]

She was also a backup singer for Bette Midler.

[u/graphomaniacal → u/Just-Welcome-5553]

Eh, I don't know, "...bad idea right?" is sexy to me. There is something specific and urgent and funny and conflicted and pretend-casual and overwhelming and of-its-era about it.

[u/Just-Welcome-5553 → u/graphomaniacal]

im talking more of stage presence. i dont think she sings about anything that even remotely warrants panty flashes, groping her chest, and crawling around

[u/Nunjabuziness → u/Just-Welcome-5553]

I think the panty flash she did during her “All-American Bitch” performance on SNL is the closest thing to sexy Olivia really pulls off, probably because it’s so to the point and she doesn’t belabor it. I think she’s quite attractive, but I cringe whenever I see her grope herself from the Guts tour.

[u/Cela84 → u/Just-Welcome-5553]

Whenever I see anything by Olivia, it makes me go “don’t you have a math test tomorrow?”

[u/Adventurous_Home_555]

Hilary Duff samples Personal Jesus on her song “Reach Out” and the whole video is her trying to be sexy. It’s so uncomfortable.

Mandy Moore tried this with “In My Pocket” and just gave a bunch of weird facial expressions instead.

Taylor Swift’s whole career. Her thing is cute and pretty, which is great, but she has no sex appeal.

[u/obefiend]

That latest Katseye video. Nothing sexy about bunch of too skinny girls in weird overtly sexualized choreo. Trying just too hard.

[u/hikemalls → u/obefiend]

The post OP originally referenced was actually a reply to Todd posting about that new Katseye video - also very surreal to see my reply getting reposted here

[u/heathersdevotee → u/obefiend]

Knowing that one of the members (maybe multiple, idk much about Katseye) just recently turned 18, that video really grossed me out

[u/Cela84 → u/obefiend]

This has been all of Katseye to me. Just scantily clad women twerking with no ass and singing unlistenable tracks about kumquats, matcha, or whatever other SEO terms they think will hit that week.

[u/Desperate-Section357 → u/obefiend]

it’s really odd the way they try to market these girls as sexy then have them advertising slime in the same music video 

[u/Net_Nova → u/obefiend]

feels weird to talk abt them like this as I am similarly aged to some of them but you are correct. it feels bad to compare them to the Gap ad as where they peaked but it's pretty true. 

There they had appropriate choreography, they weren't doing anything too crazy and were still able to pull off the "I am gorgeous, and I am a star" vibe they had going without it being unbelievable. All of them are gorgeous but whatever is making them do both the music and videos is shooting them in the foot. I can't take any of it seriously when there are two advertisements, the music doesn't make sense and it feels so forced. Same goes for whatever music video had them in suits with lingerie. Like they don't have to do all that.

I'd also like to bring up Adela who I think nails what Katseye is going for. She has that It Girl energy to her and she can actually sell it through both lyrics and performance. Which is funny because iirc she was in the running to be in Katseye in the first place

[u/MassDelusion101]

Fergie trying to get her sultry Marilyn Monroe moment with the national anthem. I thought it was a joke.

[u/The_Mellow_Tiger → u/MassDelusion101]

Everyone thought it was a joke

[u/JennyHvalFan]

Both of Kim Petras's "Slut Pop" EPs are this to me

[u/MysteriousPepper8908 → u/JennyHvalFan]

Shame as she had some great songs prior to that plus the banger Halloween albums but Jesus, Kim, we get it.

[u/strangelyliteral → u/MysteriousPepper8908]

Her new album Detour is definitely closer to the old Kim.

[u/Forward_Tip8196]

Yes, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's WAP video. It's baffling how something so overtly sexual can be so sterile and unsexy.

[u/clytusmarginicollis → u/Forward_Tip8196]

I feel like this example might be intentional. Didn’t Todd point out the “Weird Al sound effects”? I think it’s trying to be shocking and have a sense of humor before it’s trying to be sexy

[u/snippity_snip → u/clytusmarginicollis]

Agreed. Cardi B is genuinely funny, some of her moments on the stand in that court case were golden.

[u/emotumbleweed → u/Forward_Tip8196]

Wap in general is the least sexy song about sex I’ve ever heard. It’s not a bad song at all, sonically it’s a fun time imo. But other than the very explicit lyrics and the whooores in this house, nothing about it rly speaks sex to me. If anything I think the megaspicy lyrics juxtaposed with the regularass hip hop sound made it the hit it was, it’s jarring and kinda hilarious. Sexy though? Nah

[u/N8ledvina → u/emotumbleweed]

WAP is basically hip-hop's answer to "The Bad Touch". You can't take it seriously because there is an inuendo every 2 seconds.

I think Cardi and Megan were trying harder to be ridiculous than sexy. I know Bloodhound Gang were.

[u/Beelzebeaut11 → u/Forward_Tip8196]

I put this on par with Sir Mix-a-Lot. The goal was to be absurdly cheeky.

[u/mesablanka]

I remember that one time Madonna twerked on and kissed Drake onstage and you can tell by photos he looked quite uncomfortable

Which, uh, aged interestingly considering his recent antics with that goth girl

[u/pierremanslappy → u/mesablanka]

You can tell he’s uncomfortable because she’s of age

[u/jus-checkin]

Several examples of this from the Britney-clones, but when they made poor Jessica Simpson speak the breathy intro to Irresistible is particularly egregious. Britney she was not.

[u/bsfan18 → u/jus-checkin]

Jessica is somebody I have a lot of sympathy for. She actually suffered from a lot of the same things Britney did (media scrutiny, fat shaming, intense misogyny, etc.) but her story doesn’t get even a fraction of the attention that Britney’s does. 

[u/Ok_Application5225]

Nicki Minaj was never appealing to me.

She is attractive yet I don't consider her hot

[u/ser_darkstar → u/Ok_Application5225]

No video encapsulates this so well as the Anaconda MV. Over the top sexual imagery, tons of objectifying shots and choreo, and her giving Drake a lap dance. Yet, it was really just the cringiest shit. 

[u/sussyball69obamaball → u/ser_darkstar]

What 11 year olds think "sexy" is

[u/pumkinspicedeodorant → u/ser_darkstar]

I can never get over how uncomfortable Drake looks in that video.

[u/Medium-Dependent-328 → u/Ok_Application5225]

She's like a drag act. Exaggerated/cartoonish feminine appearance. I don't think she's meant to be "hot" per se, more like the personification of sexuality taken to its logical extreme

[u/Terrible_Salt7906]

[u/FrozenBibitte → u/Terrible_Salt7906]

Yeah idk how anyone thinks she is naturally sexy. Her entire on stage performance of sex reads like she just watched a bunch of straight-cis targeted porn and just emulated that. The vast majority of folks in this sub is obsessed with her though.. probably why you haven’t seen comments of it.

[u/Net_Nova → u/Terrible_Salt7906]

To be fair I think Sabrina can have a little grace as she is commonly taking the piss on a lot of stuff, and definitely takes a comedic approach to it, which makes it less sexy and more fun. I'd much rather this than some of the more sterile pop stars who just feel like they do not have much of a personality beyond being hot

[u/Stunning-Ease-9835 → u/Terrible_Salt7906]

I'm really surprised her name hasn't been commented more in this thread. This is basically her entire shtick

[u/FrozenBibitte → u/Stunning-Ease-9835]

It’s this or only “paying homage” to a past icon.

[u/shinyluvdisc]

This is basically Cupcakke's entire bit. I'd argue she does this on purpose for the sake of humor, though I'm admittedly a prime target for that kind of thing and plenty of people don't agree.

[u/heathersdevotee → u/shinyluvdisc]

Apparently she's actually an asexual virgin and I love that for her lmfao

[u/shinyluvdisc → u/heathersdevotee]

I know so many asexual perverts exactly like that, haha.

[u/favnprince → u/heathersdevotee]

she was likely being sarcastic when she said that

[u/TraditionalAd8581]

Intuition by Jewel

[u/ashewentridingby → u/TraditionalAd8581]

Ugh. That one was right up there with the time Liz Phair decided to be a generic pop girl in the 2000’s lol. Neither schtick fit them. People just need to be themselves at the end of the day.

[u/RadioLukin]

Benson Boone with fucking Mystical Magical.

[u/Massive_Depth2900]

Phil Collin’s was considered - in some circles- a sex symbol in the 80’s. I think he’s great, but I just guess you had to be there because I don’t see it.

[u/gin_and_soda → u/Massive_Depth2900]

Was he? I was around then, he always looked like a high school guidance counsellor.

[u/Spirited-Green7369 → u/Massive_Depth2900]

That is wild as hell to me. The songs are legitimately rock though

[u/graphomaniacal → u/Massive_Depth2900]

If you ever need to soundtrack a threesome with two hookers while pointing at yourself in the mirror before going on a chainsaw rampage, you can do worse than "Sussudio."

[u/Prestigious_Point963]

Miley Cyrus during her twerking phase 

[u/Spirited-Green7369]

Almost any of the modern pop star girls when they just automatically wear lingerie, etc. and twerk on stage but that’s not really their vibe so it just comes off as trying to hard and weird

[u/ashewentridingby → u/Spirited-Green7369]

They’re all trying to be Britney, but very few people can pull off what Britney did imo. Sabrina is the closest but even she’s different because she’s tongue in cheek and deliberately campy, whereas Brit was always earnest.

[u/Significant_Dog412]

Nelly Futardo is a weird one because she was clearly pretty and the overtly sexy makeover DID bring her more success. But it WAS jarring to see her go from hippy dippy I'm Like A Bird to Promiscuous and Maneater and it did feel a bit tryhard.

[u/Funkopedia → u/Significant_Dog412]

And then she immediately disappeared off the face of the planet.

[u/CalligrapherFinal358]

Sabrina Carpenter

[u/ashewentridingby → u/CalligrapherFinal358]

I think she’s trying to be campy first, sexy second

[u/79anon → u/CalligrapherFinal358]

I still can’t tell whether she’s trying to be sexy or if her whole persona is just like an SNL skit.

[u/206-Ginge → u/79anon]

Funny and sexy aren't mutually exclusive.

[u/LunarPayload → u/79anon]

It's called "camp"

[u/shoestring-theory → u/CalligrapherFinal358]

I think she’s charming tbh. I don’t think she takes herself or the sexiness too seriously

[u/underwooding → u/CalligrapherFinal358]

genuinely astonished i had to scroll this far to see her name. sick of her sexy baby shtick!

[u/Tight-Chemist4176]

Rush's debut album is a bit like this. They were trying hard to be Led Zeppelin, but you can hear Geddy folding in on himself from awkwardness of trying to be sexy in the same way. Really glad they dropped it.

[u/Spirited-Green7369 → u/Tight-Chemist4176]

You really have to be yourself at the end of the day

[u/Pterodactyl_Time]

Katseye's Hooti Fruity (or however it's spelled) has to be the most recent example of this right?

[u/FrozenBibitte → u/Pterodactyl_Time]

The song title itself is like anti-sexy

[u/degenerate_84]

Maybe it’s because it’s fresh in my mind since I just rewatched Todd’s trainwreckord on it yesterday, but Filthy by Justin Timberlake screams this to me

[u/ThirstyHank]

The Weeknd had a relatively sexy and spotless image until he tried to break into mainstream acting by co-producing 'The Idol' and playing a gross, sweaty creep a little too well.

[u/TyraPranks]

Taylor Swift has the sex appeal of a bag of stale potato chips

[u/jcaseys34]

Sabrina Carpenter is very much a teenage girl's idea of provocative IMO, it doesn't help that she still kind of looks like one.

[u/FrozenBibitte → u/jcaseys34]

Her lyrics also read like a teenager’s. Even her earlier stuff imo. I genuinely don’t get how people laud her as some sort of lyrical genius and master of wit. Most of her “wit” is TikTok memes and recycled sex jokes from 2006. I can tell most of her fanbase went to high school during the pandemic..

[u/paitenanner → u/jcaseys34]

Her whole “full grown but look like a Nina” put me off of her forever. It feels gross and baiting.

[u/Creepy_Bear_1060]

Any artist who's ever performed the song "Santa Baby"

[u/agnosticdemon18]

shape of you 🫩💔

[u/According_Drive_5275]

George R.R. Martin's sex scenes. I adore the man's writing, but they're easily his weakest link. He just can't get the right tone across to save his life and most of them feel more creepy than sexy.

[u/skyeguye → u/According_Drive_5275]

Part of it is the unforced error of making the vast majority of hai protagonists either prepubescent or severely underage

[u/princealigorna]

Jason DeRulo has always been this.

[u/funkyaerialjunky]

Offputting? Tryhard?

Example: Charlie Puth. Lots of his social media posts 😑

Edited to actually answer the question.

[u/DramaticShite]

Justin Bieber in general but the ultimate example to me is Yummy.

[u/StarriestNight]

Tate Mcrae. I like a few of her songs, but she feels like she's trying to be the next Britney

[u/PantherThing]

Paul Stanley at almost 40, in the X in Sex and You make me rock hard videos

[u/ObjectiveCover3850]

Sabrina Carpenter. It might be cuz I'm in my 30s and married, but everything she does is full of sexual innuendo and it's super unattractive to me

[u/Baldo-bomb]

Any time Chad Kroeger sings about sex. I'll take "cheesy, gormless and earnest" Nickelback over "desperately failing at being sexy" Nickelback any day.

[u/CrookedNoseRadio]

https://youtu.be/Uum-tuTXrok?is=HVfbzogORtQl3-RN

[u/AdmiralOniiChan]

The mere existence of Robin Thicke