A Predatory Aura

Electric Six “Sex with Somebody”

Electric Six have spent the past 15 years releasing music year in and year out that mercilessly satirizes contemporary masculinity. The characters in Dick Valentine’s songs are vivid caricatures of delusional idiots, desperate creeps, obnoxious blowhards, and wannabe alpha males, but like… these days a lot of that is less cartoonish and more like photorealism. “Sex with Somebody” is a groovy “end of the night” low key disco song sung from the perspective of some guy with an urgent need to have sex with literally anyone who will let him, and at first it just seems like the joke is that Valentine is just singing the subtext of lots of other pop songs. But the song is really more the character’s desperation and loneliness, and how he only can feel validated in this way. It’s not about sex or human contact, just about serving his ego and acting out a social ritual. It’s all benchmarks and no humanity.

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