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“Shoop”—Salt-N-Pepa

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Importance of Sex in the 80s

I'm still so struck by the bluntness of let's talk about sex, like how rare that was in 1990 to have pop stars willing to be that direct to talk about sex. They were basically alone. I think the only other person who really did it was Madonna, but she was later. It was those two songs that were like that straightforward, there weren't couched in metaphor, like straight up like sex. The song title people are still having sex just popped into my head. That's the tour they went on with '91 Littlest Criminals.

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