t/s Extreme's "More Than Words" - Is it about sex or not?

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Yes, I know the lead singer of Extreme has claimed it isn't about sex, but if he did claim it was about sex, soft rock stations might not play it as much.

So... Is it about showing that you love someone through non-sexual actions or is it about someone wanting their partner to have sex with him/her?

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

bet you ten bucks it's about "emotions"

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

All songs are about sex, my dear boy! Isn't that why we're all here?

Robinson

― Robinson (Robinson), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

actually its about telepathy.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

it's about pictures

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

It's about drugs

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

it's about words

― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

no, super words.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

buttsex

― yep, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

its about buttsex pictures, described with super words (transmitted through telepathy).

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

on drugs.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

this is a karoake classic

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Nuno said the original title was actually "Just Put Out Already."

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

on drugs.

-- latebloomer (posercore24...), August 9th, 2005.

this is a karoake classic

-- noizem duke (dan...), August 9th, 2005.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

it's basically the power ballad version of "let's do it for our country" from greece 2.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

well, ballad. not power ballad.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I mean the song is pretty deliberately open-ended, though it's open-ended in that way that pop songs are when they're actually about sex but are being careful to be vague about it. The basic sentiment = "show you love me," which can mean any number of things in any number of contexts, obviously one of the lyrical pluses of massively-popular songs. It's very easy to imagine as a woman's song, maybe even easier. But in the end there was obviously some awareness, no matter how wink-and-smirk it may have been, that for a teenage-boy audience it'd be the most eloquent expression of sex-pressure in the history of mankind -- kind of a gift, this very convincing-sounding "more than words" argument.

I don't know if you guys remember the cassingle but the b-sides were called "More than Oral" and "Time for the Ass, Girl."

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

well, crap. not ballad. nor power ballad.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

man, I'll rep for this song - nice harmonies, slow development, real charm - one could argue, if one were in an uncynical mood, that it's making a let's-have-sex case on quasi-Wordsworthian terms: conversation (and, oho, the song itself) have their limits, after which, etc

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

"They're delish."

― Herbie Reality (Rob Uptight.), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

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