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:
“The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“In benevolent natures the impulse to pity is so sudden, that like instruments of music which obey the touch ... you would think the will was scarce concerned, and that the mind was altogether passive in the sympathy which her own goodness has excited. The truth is,—the soul is [so] ... wholly engrossed by the object of pity, that she does not ... take leisure to examine the principles upon which she acts.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“The manner in which Americans “consume” music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie—it’s consumed that way without any regard for how and why it’s made.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1994)