Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)

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Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)
WASP
publication 1984
length 3:07
Genre (s) Heavy metal
Author (s) Blackie Lawless
album no album

Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) is a song by the US band WASP. It was released in April 1984 as the band's first single and not on their self-titled debut album , as this would not otherwise have been sold by larger chain stores. Originally, WASP's record company Capitol Records wanted to release the single only in Europe in a black plastic bag with a sticker warning of the lyrics. At the last minute, however, the record company withdrew and the band signed a single-only deal with Music for Nations .

Music genre

According to VH1 , the band sounded "as bad as Lawless ' dark identity", Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) was described as WASP's best hour.

Controversy

In 1985, the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) added Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) to its Filthy Fifteen list with the designation X for sexually offensive content; While Blackie Lawless VH1 with italicized verses like “A pelvic thrust and the sweat starts to sting ya” could be described as a pleasure or sensual person, he was only considered sick by the PMRC. The recitation of the text by PMRC member Tipper Gore , however, heard hundreds of times more people than the band's version, which Spin editor Bob Guccione junior described as ironic; the song was probably never played on commercial radio stations because of its "mundane" content, as the FCC does not allow it. Still, Gore brought Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) to national television. Chuck Klosterman also pointed out the role of the PMRC for the level of awareness of the band; Gore was "in truth the best thing that ever happened to WASP", thanks to the PMRC, the band became known for a song that no one in America had ever heard. Klosterman described the song as "slightly misogynistic". 60,000 copies were sold.

In West Germany, the single was indexed by the Federal Testing Office for writings harmful to minors in May 1986 because of the record sleeve , which shows a close-up of a circular saw blade in the crotch of a man .

Carol Siegel described Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) in New Millennial Sexstyles as "celebrating the rape and torture of women as the only adequate expression of male arousal". Deena Weinstein, however, believes that in the heavy metal context, sex is sweaty, fun and uncommitted. He is "generally not sadistic" and always exuberant. Pieces like Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) and Scorpions ' Animal Magnetism emphasized carnality and the absence of a spiritual element in sexual activity.

In the meantime, the song is no longer played live, which Lawless, now born again Christian , justifies with his religiosity.

Cover versions

Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) was covered in 2000 by Transylvania on Delictum , in 2001 by Venereal Disease on the tribute album Show No Mercy - Tribute to WASP and in 2009 by Minotaur on God May Show You Mercy… We Will Not . Siegel sees in Nine Inch Nails ' Closer from 1994, which contains the verse “I want to fuck you like an animal” , possible borrowings from Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) or a parodying response to the piece, whereby she is the latter interpretation for More likely, since Closer replaces the "threats and boasting" from Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) with cries for help and screams of pain.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WASP history .
  2. ^ Deena Weinstein: Heavy Metal: The Music And Its Culture . Revised Edition. Da Capo Press 2000, p. 188.
  3. ↑ a b Chuck Klosterman: The Jack Factor . New York: Scribner 2010.
  4. ↑ a b c Filthy Fifteen: continued .
  5. ^ Jonathon Green, Nicholas J. Karolides: Encyclopedia of Censorship . New Edition. New York: Facts on File 2005, p. 625.
  6. ↑ Barry Miles: Zappa: A Biography . New York: Grove Press 2004, pp. 332f.
  7. ↑ Bob Guccione, Jr .: Sticks & Stones . Rock Censorship in Perspective . In: Spin , December 1985, p. 19.
  8. ↑ Chuck Klosterman: Paradise City . In: Spin , September 2002, p. 74.
  9. ↑ Pat Mesiti: It's Only Rock 'N' Roll, But. . . . ANZEA Publishers 1993, p. 72.
  10. ↑ Indexed phonograms. Archived from the original on July 25, 2005 ; Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
  11. ↑ a b Carol Siegel: New Millennial Sexstyles . Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2000.
  12. ^ Deena Weinstein: Heavy Metal: The Music And Its Culture . Revised Edition. Da Capo Press 2000, p. 36.
  13. ↑ a b W.ASP's BLACKIE LAWLESS: I Will Never Play 'Animal (F ** k Like A Beast)' Again .
  14. ↑ a b Bryan Reesman: 25 Years After Tipper Gore's PMRC Hearings, the Opposing Sides Aren't So Far Apart .
  15. ↑ Blackie Lawless Renounces His Past Sins .