Oh wait a sec, they're reasonably attractive teenage sluts who sing about partying? If I owned a label, I'd have signed them too. Any talentless 16-year-old idiot can take 30 seconds out of their life to scribble out the first "naughty" lyrics that pop into their head, and then press "play" on a drum machine and sing-talk into a microphone. Millionaires were quoted in a 2008 interview stating "We’re showing kids that anyone can do this." Yes, this is correct. I'm sure the irony has been made painfully obvious to all the rappers involved by now. The same guy who once sang "Why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets?" shit out one of the most annoying attempts to cash in on "keeping it real" ever released to radio. I'll have to make a personal note about this one, as it's one of the rare cases of my entire life when a song played on the radio actually caused literal stomach pain, due to the short and odd little vibrato bits scattered throughout this mess. The following were the worst examples of how mainstream radio responded to these trends. The other big shitty radio trend of the past year was "party anthems," the majority of which also incorporate blatant sexual overtones, often times alongside references to drinking and getting high.
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It sure is taking a while for that engine to turn over. Only now it seems that mainstream subtlety may truly be dead, never to return. And now 17 years later, we're pretty much back at that same cycle point.
![rae sremmurd this could be us trap nation 1 hour clean rae sremmurd this could be us trap nation 1 hour clean](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba6bc22348cd90475485cf5/1556297580524-FYNQN478FO0704491EY3/fortress.png)
Obviously, this wasn't the only time sex showed up in song lyrics or was suggested through production elements, but it was the last time that subtlety meant truly nothing. The last time this trend really took off was between 19 (the 2 year period that gave us "Cherry Pie," "I Wanna Sex You Up," "Let's Talk About Sex," "I Touch Myself," "Do Me," "Me So Horny," "I'm Too Sexy," and the videos for Chris Isaac's "Wicked Game" and Billy Idol's "Rock The Cradle Of Love"). 1991 was probably the last time commercial radio suffered so horribly, partially due to the current trend of songs getting sold primarily due to their blatant sexual elements. 2009 was really a fantastic year for shitty, terrible radio singles.