Date rape has been getting some pretty heavy rotation on the airwaves since Jamie Foxx‘s latest single, “Blame It (On the Alcohol),” dropped. The song details Foxx’s pursuit of an increasingly drunk lady in da club, and features T. Pain, who chimes in on his vocoder: “Couple more shots you open up like a book.” If you want to know what it’s like to be double-date-raped by a movie star and a dude who speaks only through a vocoder, this song is for you.
But Foxx and Pain aren’t the first to make raping someone you know into record gold. Below, five of the most notable date rape anthems in recording history.
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Date Rape Anthem: Jamie Foxx’s “Blame It (On the Alcohol),” in which Foxx attempts to fuck a woman who “says she usually don’t” but that he knows is “frontin” because “she don’t wanna seem like she’s easy.” (But she is). Foxx knows she’s ready to admit she wants it when “she spilled some drink on me / And now I’m knowin’ she tipsy.” My neighbor has this song as her ringtone.
Relevant Lyrics:
Blame it on the goose, gotcha feeling loose
Blame it on the ‘tron, gotcha panties off
Blame it on the ah-ah-ah-alcohol, blame it on the ah-ah-ah-alcohol
Blame it on the vodka, blame it on the henny
Blame it on the blue tap got you feeling dizzy
Blame it on the ah-ah-ah-alcohol, blame it on the ah-ah ah-ah ah-al-co-hol
Why It’s So Rapey: She doesn’t want it until she’s had such a serious combination of cocktails that she’s spilling drinks on Jamie Foxx. Foxx, of course, knew better than she alllll alongggg.
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Date Rape Anthem: The Toadies’ “Possum Kingdom,” a first-person appeal to a future rape/murder victim to go with the Toadies’ ultimate skeezy dude “behind the boathouse.”
Relevant Lyrics:
Make up your mind
Decide to walk with me
Around the lake tonight
By my side
I’m not gonna lie
I’ll not be a gentleman
Behind the boathouse
I’ll show you my dark secret
Why It’s So Rapey: More a date-murder anthem, the Toadies still suggest that she’ll “Give it up to me, Give it up to me” before she becomes his “angel.”
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Date Rape Anthem: Sublime’s “Date Rape,” a ska jaunt through a woman’s acquaintance rape, her legal battle, and the rapist’s punishment. Popular among Arizona middle school students.
Relevant Lyrics:
Thats when things got out of control.
She didnt want to, he had his way.
She said, lets go
He said, no way!
Come on babe its your lucky day.
Shut your mouth, were gonna do it my way.
Come on baby dont be afraid,
If it wasnt for date rape Id never get laid.
Why It’s So Rapey: This date rape song has a positive moral ending: “It does not pay / Drunk and horny.” But it then goes on to advocate for prison rape: “Well, I cant take pity on men of his kind,” Sublime’s Bradley Nowell sings. “Even though he now takes it in the behind.”
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Date Rape Anthem: Frank Loesser’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” a tug-of-war duet between an unwilling female and a drink-mixing male. Penned in 1944, decades before the term “date rape” entered our collective consciousness.
Relevant Lyrics:
I really can’t stay—-Baby it’s cold outside
I’ve got to go away—-Baby it’s cold outside
This evening has been—-Been hoping that you’d drop in
So very nice—-I’ll hold your hands, they’re just like ice
My mother will start to worry—-Beautiful, what’s your hurry
My father will be pacing the floor—-Listen to the fireplace roar
So really I’d better scurry—-Beautiful, please don’t hurry
well Maybe just a half a drink more—-Put some music on while I pourThe neighbors might think—-Baby, it’s bad out there
Say, what’s in this drink—-No cabs to be had out there
I wish I knew how —-Your eyes are like starlight now
To break this spell—-I’ll take your hat, your hair looks swell
I ought to say no, no, no, sir—-Mind if I move a little closer
At least I’m gonna say that I tried—-What’s the sense in hurting my pride
I really can’t stay—-Baby don’t hold out
Ahh, but it’s cold outside
Why It’s So Rapey: Dubbed by Urban Dictionary as the “Christmas Date Rape Song,” “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” has endured as a classic date rape anthem because (a) it was ahead of its time; (b) the lyrics are unimaginably date-rapey—-the woman tells the man her “answer is no,” but he continues to ply her with drinks and exaggerated weather-based fears until she sleeps over; and (c) it’s nevertheless celebrated as a Christmas classic.
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Date Rape Anthem: Anal Cunt’s “You Were Too Ugly to Rape So I Beat the Shit Out of You,” a song which claims to have lyrics.
Relevant Lyrics:
I drank a case of whiskey
And you looked like Jeanine Jizm
I drank another case of whiskey
And you looked like Roseannie Barr
Why It’s So Rapey: Okay, I’m not sure “I drank a case of whiskey” qualifies as a date, and Anal Cunt does decide to “beat the shit” out of her instead of raping her, and I’m pretty sure they don’t actually say anything in this song, but I think it still counts.