"Rock me gently, rock me slowly,
Take it easy, don't you know
That I have never been loved like this before . . .
(BABAY BABAYAY)"
Yeah, that one. I think the only reason the lyrics weren't 'f*ck me gently,
f*ck me slowly' were, well, that the song was bracketed (or, later, 'day-parted') to be
heard by middle-aged housewives who probably couldn't have handled hearing a young, virile
man about whose appearance they knew nothing (and therefore could imagine anything
... in case you were wondering, he was another swarthy Canuck a la Gino Vannelli)
say 'the F word' in a song. Now, of course, the word does appear occasionally in a
song that's played on the radio. Sometimes, you even hear it, if the station has the
nerve. But, sadly, you know exactly what Kid Rock and Fred Durst look like, and not
even the most desperate middle-aged housewife would dream of letting either of them in her
house without first handing him a bottle of Head and Shoulders and the garden hose.
Well, okay. Mike Doughty has used the word before, and I think most of them would
let him in. They just wouldn't be listening to his songs in the first place.