Sex Parlor Music

Get used to it.
As a performing musician who does not play sex parlor music, there are a lack of places worth playing music at. So many local events don't decently pay live musicians, or they expect you to play for free-for exposure. So instead, people in charge of these events just switch on the most convenient music they have, which happens to be “Baby I can show you how to rock your bed."

I didn't know the old folks home had internet access.

All the sex parlors I've been to play jazz.

I love the assumptions people make about Matt. If late 40's is "old", then 50 must be the new 70.

There is such a thing as self-respect and manners, and playing music with suggestive lyrics is simply disrespectful.

Then again, manners is on life support.

By the way, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, and Elvis didn't have to rely on vulgarity in their lyrics to sell records. So much for the argument about artistic expression.

The Beatles and Elvis were reviled in there early days by fuddy-duddies like Matt McLaughlin, and their music was "dangerous," "sinful," "promoting immoral behavior," and "outside the bounds of common decency and good taste."

Elvis's nickname, fergawdsakes, was "Elvis the Pelvis." And the Beatles's effect on young women was much remarked upon in the press, usually not favorably.

Stevie Wonder, not so much, but by the time he blew up with "Superstition," he had run the gauntlet as Little Stevie Wonder in the Motown revues, which encountered racism and the marginalism of segregationist policies still in play throughout the U.S.

Rock music doesn't exist without sex, billclausen.