Music
The Velvet Underground song "Venus in Furs" (from The Velvet Underground & Nico) is based on a book by Masoch of the same title; the name of the band itself comes from a book about paraphilias (including BDSM) in the United States.
Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" may be the most well-known popular song with BDSM connotations, primarily due to the music video. Adam Lambert's "For Your Entertainment," Puddle of Mudd's "Control," and Madonna's "Erotica" are explicitly from the dominant's point of view - as is "Baby Let's Play Rough" by the country-western vampire singer Unknown Hinson, whereas Nedra Johnson's "Alligator Food" and Lady Gaga's "Teeth" are written from the perspective of the submissive.
Jace Everett's "Bad Things" (theme song of the TV series True Blood) alludes to BDSM.
Industrial Music in general likely has the most BDSM themes, as well as being one of the biggest influences on Rivethead fashion. Rammstein is one of those industrial bands, as their song "Ich Tu Dir Weh (I hurt you)" is about BDSM. Depeche Mode Are known for their BDSM undertones, among their songs are "Master and servant" as well as "In your room"
Other famous songs/bands with BDSM themes include: • Green Day "Blood Sex and Booze" and "Dominated Love Slave" • Nickelback "Figured You Out" • Lords of Acid "Power is mine", Strung Out "Ultimate Devotion" • Nine Inch Nails "Closer" and "Sin" • Duffy's "Mercy" includes lots of begging.
In 2010 Christina Aguilera released her Bionic album which contains the single, "Not Myself Tonight". The controversial, high-concept video for the single is rife with aggressive BDSM imagery. Aguilera is seen as a bound and gagged slave as well as a latex-clad dominatrix with a riding crop and a group of look-alike slave girls.
Also released in 2010, the alternative rock band 30 Seconds To Mars' "Hurricane" video, directed by front man & actor Jared Leto under his pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins, includes lots of Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission. Though initially banned from most networks due to violence and heavy sexual content, the video received three nominations at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Direction and Best Editing.
Rihanna's "Loud" album features an opening song called "S&M", which is about sadism and masochism as its name suggests and as the music video makes clear.
Thin Lizzy's 1979 Album Roisin Dubh (Black Rose) included a song called "S&M" about a sadistic man.
Guns 'n' Roses' Pretty Tied Up from the band's Use Your Illusion II album.
That Dog "Gagged and Tied"
Boondox "Freak Bitch" form his album krimson creek
Ali Project "Hizamazuite Ashi o Oname"
Devo "Whip It"
Blue Öyster Cult "Dominance and Submission"
The Misfits "Devil's Whorehouse"
The Plasmatics "Black Leather Monster" and "Sex Junkie"
Frank Zappa "Carolina Hardcore Extacy"
Blitzkid "She Dominates"
Spooncurve "Hurt me, I'm Yours"
Songs of interest, though not necessarily about BDSM:
The Rolling Stones "When The Whip Comes Down"
Read more about this topic: BDSM In Culture And Media
Famous quotes containing the word music:
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“On the first days, like a piece of music that one will later be mad about, but that one does not yet distinguish, that which I was to love so much in [Bergotte’s] style was not yet clear to me. I could not put down the novel that I was reading, but I thought that I was only interested in the subject, as in the first moments of love when one goes every day to see a woman at some gathering, or some pastime, by the amusements to which one believes to be attracted.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)