Sunday, 27 May 2012

Bangin’ Tunes! – Music and the search for Manhood!

Friends, Romans, countrymen! It is as of recent that a rather unsettling factor of my own persona has been revealed unto me. It came to mind whilst I was sat in the in the centre of a wide, majestic and oh so very beautiful field alongside a myriad of butterflies, squirrels, hopes and dreams. The joy of a thousand orphans who’ve found their parents after years of arduous searching bathed the land in an almost mystical, sublime light. It was in this paradise that I listened to Dido’s gentle vocal instruments at work allowing the following to flutter free amongst the perfections of my present,

“And I want to thank you for giving me
The best day of my life
Oh, just to be with you is having
The best day of my life”

As the words melted into my very core I allowed my hand to be carried free across a page, crafting would be poetry with every stroke. It was a euphoric moment that shall be carried with me throughout life! It was a moment truly at peace! It was daytime so I couldn’t see, but I’m certain if it had been night the planets would have aligned. Para, para, paradise!


Every beloved object is the centre point of a paradise.

It was at this moment that it happened, the moment of realisation. Having finished my latest verse on love and pixies I sat back amongst nature and resolved to take it all in. Within a minute however… disaster had struck! Without knowing what I was doing I had begun to craft a chain from the daisies around which I’d sat. It was in this act I had created my own shackles. I had lost my masculinity…
I am now locked in place by an indestructible chain of pretty flowers. I have become… feminine.


“Shit the bed!”

So that is where this article comes in. I must do what all men at odds with their own sexuality do. I must talk about sex! ‘ight Geez! Cause that’s manlike ‘aint it mushty? So here are my top ten sexually themed songs. An attempt to reclaim my manhood… Brap.

               10. Rihanna - S&M

Whips and chains? S&M? I feel my masculinity taking root within me! This song makes it onto this list not because it’s particularly good… More for the novelty of it being played all the time and that children seem to enjoy singing along. The funniest moment of my life has to be hearing a six year old sing about how whips and chains excite her. Although with that thought I can feel my masculinity receding. Let’s move on to something toddler free shall we?

Best line: “Come on, come on, come on / I like it-like it!”

You can’t pay for lyrics that good! And people say music’s gone downhill…

            9. Semisonic - Completely Pleased

Next on our search for my own masculinity is the nineties incarnate, Semisonic. This song makes it onto the list because of its extremely moral message. If one is to be a real man, they must leave their woman in a state of comatose euphoria. Anything less just won’t do! Oh… masculinity receding…

Best line: “I want to see you hazy dazed and confused I / Want to see you come, come completely used up”

Hazy? Dazed and confused? Now where’s my roofies? MANHOOD! HERE I COME!

               8. (Hed) P.E. - Murder

Work it, work it! Hear that sound, that’s the sound of me, pounding you!  Only the first of the songs in this list to include both sex and murder I’m seeing the start of a running theme. This song earns its position for its declaration, “That’s my pussy!” As we all know having ownership of one’s woman is vital if one’s to be deemed a man.  Now bitch! Go make me a grilled cheese sandwich!

Best line: “That’s my pussy, that’s yo pussy!”

Maybe we can let the cat decide? They’re very independent animals you know.

               7. Tenacious D - Fuck her Gently

Once again we have a singer taking the high road. All these morals in sex and I thought it was just about the birds and the bees. Anyhow, learn from this song! Sometimes doing things the hard way just isn’t right! But talking about hard… I think my masculinity’s starting to show.

Best line: “I'm gonna hump you sweetly / I'm gonna ball you discreetly”

Discreetly hey… So they shouldn’t even see it coming!

Six months in prison later…

               6. 50 Cent - Candy Shop

Where’d you get that lolly pop? Oh… Oh my… Charlie and the chocolate factory will never be the same again. GENE WILDER IS A BAD, BAD MAN!


Best line: “I'll take you to the candy shop / I'll let you lick the lollipop”

Anyhow, enough of ruining people’s childhoods… for now.

               5. Semisonic – Get a Grip

Now this is the second entry in this list for Semisonic. What can I say, these guys just love singing about sex! This is also the only song in the list to feature masturbation! Well done Semisonic, I’d shake your hands but well, you know.

Best line: “Lonely girls and you lonely boys / Playing alone with your lonely toys”

It’s like they’re singing my life! And talking about getting a grip…

A brief interlude.

               4. The Smiths – Handsome Devil

Well nothing says masculinity like cuckolding somebody! For this reason Morrissey singing of a libertine handsome devil surely couldn’t be kept from the list. Also… what says masculinity better than Morrissey? Oh yeah…

Best line: “Let me get my hands / On your mammary glands”

Hmm… doesn’t get much more erotic than those mammary glands does it boys?

               3. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Party of your Pussy

Slap base and a pussy party! As well as being incredibly sexual, this song’s just funky. This song is just about light hearted enough to get away with its extremely absurd lyrics; this is truly something only Antony and the boys could pull off.

Best line: “I want to party on your pussy, baby”

If you don’t mind that is… I don’t wish to intrude. Who says you can’t be both masculine and polite?

               2. Avenged Sevenfold – A little piece of Heaven

Here it is, the second on our list to include murder and there is only one means of describing this song… special. This strangely heartfelt story of multiple murders, hearts being eaten, coldplay and marriage is something extremely unique to say the least. But let’s be honest, one line got this song into the list-

Best line: “'Cause I really always knew that my little crime would be cold that's why I got a heater for your thighs”

Genius… Simply genius. Now honey, where’d I leave that heater?

1.      Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World

Now I can see you’re all quite annoyed at this topping our list. BUT ALAS! Allow me to pose to you the following lyrics.

1.      I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways and under

Now really, it doesn’t take an overly hormonal teen to spot what these lyrics are implying. Disney what are you playing at! If I were to sing these words out loud to the children of the world I’d be locked up! It’s only within the ultra-innocent guise of a Disney film that lyrics like these are allowed to pass, and wait there’s more.

2.      Hold your breath - it gets better
I'm like a shooting star
I've come so far

Smut. It’s pure smut. Oh, and don’t forget,

3.      Indescribable feeling

INDESCRIBABLE FEELING! Well I wonder what that feeling could be Aladdin, is it someone rubbing your lamp hmm?

So, what I’m proposing is that behind the childish adventure and innocent romance, there are actually deep, sexual issues being explored within this song… Either it’s that or I just love Disney and will to stop at nothing to get it into this list. Damn it, who am I fooling, I LOVE DISNEY! Screw masculinity, and screw sex. Who needs it when you’ve got heroes, and princesses, and beauties, and beasts, and talking cutlery. I love everything about it! It’s truly one of the most beautiful things ever, in every single way.

You know what? FUCK IT! I love making daisy chains as well. This whole search for my masculinity is laughable. I’m just going to quit right now and embrace my femininity, put on a dress made of bacon and call myself Lady Gaga because I was born this way!

Shaun Beale


 The Pessimist Chronicles would like to apologise for the distinct lack of Nicholas Cage directed insults within this article. As an apology allow us to rectify this problem; Nicholas Cage is in every way an insult to the human race and deserves nothing less than the combined suffering of all the minority groups throughout history bestowed upon  him. 

The Pessimist Chronicles would like to apologise to any readers from said - minority groups - who may have been offended by the above comment, nothing was meant by this. If Nicholas Cage was offended however that is fine, because he can go fuck himself.

2 comments:

  1. Do not do this to me, Aladin and Jasmine were singing about love.

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