9 Songs That Are So Much Dirtier Than You Think

6. Radiohead - "Black Star"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfzV-oHgRxU Who would have figured that Thom Yorke would ever write a song about sex? To us, he's always been something of an asexual android, producing complex songs about abstract emotions just before feeding on protein from a tube and going to sleep in an echo chamber. And yet, Yorke concedes that this track from The Bends is "about sex in the morning," which he considers "the best time to have it, especially if you've brushed your teeth." (That explanation sounded really weird being attributed to Thom Yorke right before the bit about brushing.) The sexual connotations make a little more sense when you realize that "Black Star" is another term for a black hole, which itself is "any region of space time where escape to the outside universe is impossible." Which, to be honest, is a pretty apt description of the female anatomy. But we've scoured the lyrics, and although we see lines that talk about sex, we can't find anything that specifies morning sex. Then again, considering this is Radiohead we're talking about, that bit's probably coded in binary somewhere in the album's liner notes.

 
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