Eat Me Alive
| Eat Me Alive | |
|---|---|
| Judas Priest | |
| publication | 1984 |
| length | 3:34 |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal |
| album | Defenders of the Faith |
| Cover versions | |
| 1999 | Angelcorpse |
| 2001 | Zorg |
Eat Me Alive is a song by the British heavy metal band Judas Priest . It was written by Glenn Tipton , Rob Halford and KK Downing and appeared on the 1984 album Defenders of the Faith .
Music genre
Eat Me Alive is held at a medium tempo and balances between "moderate musical sophistication and commercial accessibility".
Text and controversy
Allmusic's Steve Huey described Eat Me Alive as a "ridiculous ode to rough sex". Sheila Whiteley cites the piece as an example of a mood of "aggressive sexuality" created in heavy metal. According to the understanding of the authors of Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture and the Electronic Media , the text depicts the sexually stimulated man as an animal conquering the woman and sodomizing with her ; the text clearly seems to turn sex into rape. Tipper Gore and others, however, see forced oral sex at gunpoint as the theme of the song; the Parents Music Resource Center founded by Gore, among others , took Eat Me Alive into its list of Filthy Fifteen published in 1985, marked X because of the sexual content. The band responded to the controversy with the song Parental Guidance , which appeared on the follow-up Turbo .
Cover versions
Eat Me Alive was covered by Angelcorpse in 1999 for the tribute album Hell Bent for Metal - Tribute to Judas Priest and in 2001 by Zorg for Worship Judas Priest - A Tribute to Judas Priest .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Steve Huey: Defenders of the Faith - Judas Priest .
- ^ Sheila Whiteley: Too Much Too Young: Popular Music, Age and Gender . Abingdon: Routledge 2003, p. 3.
- ↑ Quentin J. Schultze, Roy M. Anker, James D. Bratt et al .: Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture and the Electronic Media . Grand Rapids: Wm.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1991, p. 280.
- ^ Niel Slaven: Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa . London: Omnibus Press 2009.
- ^ Gary Donaldson: Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945 . Armonk: ME Sharpe 2007, p. 296.
- ↑ Jane Caputi: The Age of Sex Crime . Bowling Green University Popular Press 1987, p. 106.
- ^ Jonathon Green, Nicholas J. Karolides: Encyclopedia of Censorship . New Edition. New York: Facts on File 2005, p. 625.
- ↑ Barry Miles: Zappa: A Biography . New York: Grove Press 2004, pp. 332f.
- ^ TURBO ( Memento from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).