The bad touch
| The bad touch | |
|---|---|
| Bloodhound gang | |
| publication | September 6, 1999 |
| length | 4:20 |
| Genre (s) | Rap-rock , dance-pop , eurodance |
| Author (s) | Jimmy Pop |
| Producer (s) | Jimmy Pop |
| album | Hooray for boobies |
The Bad Touch is a 1999 song by the Bloodhound Gang , written by Jimmy Pop and released on the album Hooray for Boobies . It was largely criticized in North America for its lewd lyrics and music video, while it became a top ten hit in numerous European countries .
history
The Bloodhound Gang had their last chart success with Fire Water Burn in 1997 and had to choose between a path as a serious musician or as a fun band. The musicians liked the image as a fun band better, so they chose this route. When the singer Jimmy Pop saw pictures of copulating animals on the Discovery Channel , he had found the subject for the lyrics: He wrote a song about sex that reduced it to a simple formula of having intercourse like animals in the wild:
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You and me, baby, ain't nothin 'but mammals, |
You and me baby are none other than mammals, |
The single The Bad Touch was released on September 6, 1999 as the first release from the album Hooray for Boobies . The b-side of the single is a cover of Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) by the Pet Shop Boys . The single reached number one in the single charts in Germany and the top 10 in Austria , Switzerland and Great Britain . In the USA , the song was only moderately successful at number 52.
Two copulating zebras are shown on the cover of the single .
Music video
The music video was shot in summer 1999 and exists in different versions.
In the beginning, the band dances in monkey costumes with oversized ears in different places in Paris , for example on the Place de l'Estrapade, the Avenue de Saxe and the Champ de Mars . In one scene they chase four young women dressed in black. They stun them with blowpipes fired from tranquilizer darts and kidnap them. In another scene they bait three chefs with a croissant attached to a fishing rod and lure them away. Two homosexuals dressed as sailors are knocked unconscious with baguettes in a café . A short pantomime played by Jordan Prentice is caught using a net. All prisoners find themselves in a cage. At the end of the video everyone is released and dance through the streets until Lüpüs Thünder's pantomime is run over with a Renault 5 .
The uncensored version also shows copulating monkeys at the beginning of the video , which are part of a television documentary that is shown on a television set in a shop window and is received by the band. There is also a scene at the end of the video in which two band members play with a brown liquid and spit on each other.
reception
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Frank Saxe credited the song with breaking the “radio safety zone” and especially praised the beat , which made you feel like a schoolboy again. On September 11, 2010, AOL Radio's Matthew Wilkening led The Bad Touch at number 49 on the list of 100 Worst Songs Ever . He characterized the song as "childish", but described the line of text "So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel " as "pretty clever". Various Canadian radio stations were warned by regulators because listeners complained after the song was played. According to the agency, the song did not cross the line between inappropriate and unacceptable, but it violated Canadian radio standards.
Because of the scene with the two sailors, the music video was criticized by GLAAD , which described it as "in every way anti-gay" and "not acceptable by today's standards". In coordination with the music broadcaster MTV , Geffen Records then shortened the video. British music magazine NME ranks the video 22nd out of the 50 worst music videos of all time . It shows the Bloodhound Gang on their mission to be as uncomfortable as possible, and they succeeded.
Cover versions
- 2000: Mambo Kurt
- 2006: Black Ingvars
- 2007: DJ Cargo (The Bad Touch 2007)
- 2012: DJ Gollum vs. Empyre One
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lothar Berndorff, Tobias Friedrich: 1000 Ultimate Charthits. The most successful songs and their history . Moewig, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86803-272-7 , pp. 653 f .
- ↑ Record cover on the Bloodhound Gang website , accessed January 2, 2017.
- ↑ Sources Chart placements: DE ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / AT / CH / UK / US , accessed February 16, 2016.
- ^ Frank Saxe: The Year 2000 In Music: The Critics Choice . In: Billboard . December 30, 2000, p. YE-90 .
- ↑ Matthew Wilkening: 100 Worst Songs Ever - Part Three of Five. AOL Radio, September 11, 2010, accessed February 28, 2013 .
- ^ Newsline ... Good Luck for Bad Touch . In: Billboard . March 31, 2001, p. 78 .
- ↑ Glen Sansone: Bloodhound Gang Edits Objectionable Video . In: CMJ New Music Report . March 20, 2000, p. 4 .
- ↑ 50 Worst Music Videos Ever: # 22 - Bloodhound Gang - 'The Bad Touch'. NME Online, accessed February 28, 2013 .
