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...Raunch-funk group denied guest shot on Sesame Street...
...Raunch and sex can save most works from obscurity--but should they fail, they doom a piece to the purgatory of sleaze. Eroticism is a province of the mind; if the artist doesn't stylize his sexual themes so that they involve more than the gonads, he (or she) sinks to vulgarity...
Since Prince's debut in 1978 with For You, the combination of raunch with a twisted kind of spirituality has been His Purple Badness's forte. His unconventional equation of sex with art has been rivalled only by Madonna. Whether he's crooning about his latest conquest or trying to entice a woman to fall into bed and in love with him, his musical virtuosity has always shined through his licentiousness...
...virtuosity of the early RCA material. No matter. It soon comes clear that it was all the same: music. Elvis music. American music. He was rewriting the rules and changing the definitions. On this collection, It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) is followed by the good-times raunch of Blueberry Hill, and Elvis is right at home in both. He was, and remains, the high priest of the holy honky-tonk...
...phrase "black musical" usually means either a gospel rafter-rattler or a nightclub evening of raunch and funk, typically highlighted by frenzied tap dancers and some enormous female singer with a voice like a howitzer. There have been exceptions that accorded blacks roles of dignity and depth (the richest emotionally, Dreamgirls, ironically was crafted by whites). But the norm is jumping and jiving, as in the new Five Guys Named Moe and the amiable gumbo of jubilant New Orleans sounds The High Rollers...