Songs to Have Sex to

Since the birth of modern pop culture,

sex has been used to sell music, just like it

has been used to sell everything else.

Thank you very much.

And today, more than ever, the world's

best selling artists are flaunting sex.

So, sex sells.

But what I want to find out is, why and how

some songs can make you actually feel more sexy.

I'm going to speak with musicians, producers

and singers who have created some of the

sexiest sounds ever.

Scientists who believe that music physically

causes sexual pleasure.

And along the way, I'm hoping to discover

what are the best songs to have sex to?

And we're rolling.

Let's get it on.

When that came out, it became my calling card.

Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

But the thing about it is, it lets the girl know

exactly what you had in mind!

"Rapture" by Blondie

Each person has their sex to have sex to.

I've chosen Blondie, because there's a

rolling bassline in it which is funky,

and I think people can see that I'm enjoying it.

So, they react to it.

Sleeping Pill, by Queenadreena.

It's got this constant grinding rhythm that is just,

it's lovely, it's finding oneself in a very

enclosed, intimate space.

My song is Plan B, Love Goes Down

There's this lyric that he says in it,

something about pulling you close and laying you

down on the bed, and every time I hear it,

I'm like, "ooh, yeah

that sounds good." (laughs)

Different songs

do it for different people.

But might there be a common formula, shared by

all songs that make people want to get horizontal?

For most people, sex and music both become a big deal

at around the same time, when they're in their

early teens.

And when I was a teenager, I got most of my musical

influences, from my mum, Ellenor.

I remember growing up, with a coffee.

Is that where you first discovered music?

This was grandad's coffee.

Definitely. I mean, for a young age

I can remember my chin be notched on the table,

and listening to the music coming out of the jukebox.

I remember the girls coming on the buses,

the bus conductors coming in for their coffee and

they would stand next to the jukebox and maybe

start dancing and things like that.

You loved Rod Stewart.

What is it about Rod Stewart--

- Nothing. - Does he still do it for you?

Oh, definitely. Definitely.

I've been seeing his muscles as he's gotten older.

I just think he oozed with sex appeal.

And I just loved his music, just the way he moved,

and the huskiness in his voice.

I just get this warm lovely tingly sensation, still

when I hear him.

- Can you remember when you were growing up,

if there was a big song that was like, the sexy song.

"Je T'aime"

Really?

- Yes. I remember that if it was yesterday.

Now I'm not sure if it was in the coffee,

and my dad had so many complaints he was

asked to remove it.

- No. - But yet, that was a

big, big one.

- Did you know what they were singing about?

- No not really I just heard the heavy breathing,

I didn't have a clue what they were doing

or whatever.

But again I loved the tune I thought it was great.

Do you have a song to have sex to?

No. Don't need it.

I'll make more music.

Good answer.

It's no great surprise to hear that "Je T'aime"

raised eyebrows in Suburban Fife.

The song caused outrage all over the world

when it was released in 1969.

It was banned by the BBC

and it went on to sell four million copies.

If there's one song that epitomizes

sexual freedom, it's got to be "Je T'aime".

I am beyond excited as I'm off to chat with the

woman who sung on the definitive version,

my favorite version of the song, Jane Birkin.

Jane was only 22 when she recorded that classic version

of the song, with Serge Gainsbourg.

Not only was "Je T'aime" sexy, it was widely believed

to be a recording of her and Serge actually having sex.

When you look at the lyrics,

they're not as explicit

as everyone-- - No, they're

philosophical, actually.

Even when he says "I come in and out from your...

Kidneys?

- It would be kidneys in English, that's why we

never bothered to do a translation.

But it's the back of a girl's back in natural fact.

But it sounded so beautiful

and Serge said it's philosophical because

you can't go anywhere.

For a man, that's it.

And so I thought, oh that's very,

that's a new (laughs) facet that I haven't thought of.

Even the title, "Je T'aime moi non plus" doesn't mean

"I love you so do I".

It's "I love you nor do I".

So what people talk for a great love song was also

written by a man who didn't

believe that the other person loved him.

He said that it was, thanks to me singing an

octave over the Bardot version

that gave it a sort of,

choir boy thing

that was perhaps what made it such a shock to people too

because it sounded so pure.

And poetic, but nonetheless sexual,

where you absolutely know what they're both doing.

That's the job you did well because

everybody thinks you-- - Actress.

I flung myself into it so much, I guess

I got carried away.

Do you think anyone else could have

made this record and had this response,

apart from Serge?

- I'm sure that it was a success because it

was in French.

And also because it was heavy breathing, because

that doesn't need any- it has no frontiers.

But because it's French gave it great charm, sure.

- Do you still get reaction to "Je T'aime"?

In London I was in a taxi and

he screamed on the brakes, he said "Fucking Je T'aime!

I had fucking five children off of that fucking song!"

So you think really if one is going to be remembered

for anything, then "Je T'aime moi non plus" is it.

I can just hear it, as you go out feet first.

It will.

- For me, no one has managed to get close

to Jane and Serge's ecstatic performance.

A true masterpiece, and definitely

a song to have sex to.

- I believe in love, I wanted something about

love on me so that's why I chose this song,

"Je T'aime moi non plus".

There's something personal about it.

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

are literally describing what they are doing.

You can imagine straightaway that he's on her,

making love.

He's stopping because he doesn't want to...

Ejaculate?

And the end of the song is, like, the orgasm.

- Thirty years after Serge and Jane

scandalized the world with Je T'aime, another

jewel emerged, with songs that made a lot of people

feel a little bit tingly.

Electronic pop icons Air produced songs that weren't

about sex, but they oozed sex nonetheless.

I'm going to the band's studio, to meet one half of Air,

Jean-Benoit.

Bonjour!

Wow, these are the things I would recognize.

For many, the sexiest Air song is

"Sexy Boy" has been written in

at most, fifteen minutes.

Fifteen!

Yeah, yeah.

There was on TV there was a report about a fashion show,

and there were some men walking and

showing their clothes,

and so, "Sexy Boy" came just like that.

Do you think there is such a thing

as a song to have sex to?

Personally I can't make love

listening to music because I can't concentrate

on what I do.

I think that music, you know, has this amazing power

of catching vibes, because music are vibrations

and so music can copy and reflect the vibes of love.

Which maybe, like the alpha waves, you know that we

have in our brain when we make love or when we

relax, or when we feel good.

And I think that music can catch that.