a) is misogyny in sexy dance music more acceptable when it is created in a hip hop context?
b) is the amalgamation b/w the urge to dance/fuck and the urge for emotional rawness only allowed among high indie? (ie aren’t 3OH!3 and LCD soundsystem playing the same game, just the 3OH!3 is less mournful and more angry? Is mournful a more acceptable emotion then anger? Losing yr edge is not a concern for 3OH!3, but losing desire is?
c) It does objectify women, for sure, but this clucking about that seems to be a fear of sexual frankness, or at least a certain kind of sexual frankness.
d) for me, the line about not learning to pronounce love, or not knowing how to say sorry, or about perserving innocence is indicative of this trend i find in young men, where they hide a lack of knowledge about the protocols of sex with a braggadocio about having it–though this is present here, it recognizes the phallocentric fear of doing damage, the paranoia of going to far, and having that go far, going out of control. some of it blames the female partner, the whisper chorus of the gun metaphor is play acting though, it follows with “i think i should know”, which is a profoundly ambigious gambit in the desire to seduce, and actually fairly similar to Wilson’s gambit in God Only Knows: “i may not always love you” (the ambiguity of the gambit, and then the closing of the gambit is unpresent in 3OH!3 because the ambiguity is not a problem not to be served by romance–this is not a falling in love song, this is a Post-AIDS, Post Femminism, Post-Rape Crisis Let’s Fuck Song. (it is not nearly as good as god only knows, but there is so little that is as good as god only knows)
e) also, it means something but i am not sure what, that there are any number of female fronted versions of this on the web. rewrites, responding to the original text.
f) the video features a polymorphus pile, a pan-racial pile, and a pile where gender is blurred, there is free floating miasma of fuckability, a puppy pile of initial play here.
g) i think it is aproblematic text, but a brilliant one.