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princesses with nice figures
A few years ago, feeling glum and only finding depressing music in my home library, I asked around for some "life-affirming" music. No one at the time suggested Mighty Spoiler's 1953 tune "Bedbug," but I think it's a great example of what I was looking for: although Spoiler is singing here about dying and being reincarnated as an insect, an initially unpleasant-seeming prospect, he manages to spin it into an irrepresible vision of parasite heaven, in which he'll be spending his days in fat women's beds, pleasuring himself by biting on their flesh.
Of this song, sleevenote writer Alvin C. Daniell remarks: it's "a textbook example of how a master calypsonian can transform potential pornography into a charming smut, and add a bit of social satire in the process."
From the joyous, ribald 1995 collection Unspoilt; thanks to Darren D. for turning me on to it.
Listen: Mighty Spoiler (1926-1960): "Bedbug" Labels: audio, mp3s, music_commentary |
Friday, May 06, 2005
2:32 PM
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