Let's Talk About Sex
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- For the film, see Let's Talk About Sex (film)
| "Let's Talk About Sex" | ||
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| Single by Salt-N-Pepa | ||
| from the album Blacks' Magic | ||
| Released | 1991 | |
| Format | Audio cassette | |
| Recorded | 1990 | |
| Genre | Hip-hop/R&B | |
| Length | 3:11 | |
| Label | Next Plateau Records | |
| Writer(s) | Fingerprints | |
| Certification | Gold (RIAA) | |
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| Salt-N-Pepa singles chronology | ||
| "Do You Want Me" (1990) |
"Let's Talk About Sex" (1991) |
"You Showed Me" (1992) |
"Let's Talk About Sex" is the name of a controversial hit song released by the American female R&B/hip-hop trio Salt-N-Pepa. It was released as a single from their Blacks' Magic album in the year of 1991. The song, that was certified gold by the RIAA and peaked at #13 at the Billboard Hot 100 chart, talks about safe sex, the positive and negative sides of sex and the censorship that sex had around that time in American mainstream media. The song was later included in the trio's Greatest Hits (2000) album.
Its peak on the Billboard Hot 100 was perhaps lower than its sales might have suggested, possibly because of a cautiousness over playing hip-hop/rap singles on some radio stations at the time. In the purely sales-based UK Singles Chart, the song hit #2, and in the German singles chart, the song hit #1, the first original song by an American hip-hop act to achieve that feat. It also hit #1 in the Australian ARIA Singles Chart.
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[edit] Music video
The music video for "Let's Talk About Sex" starts in a black-and-white scene with a girl turning on a radio and lisening to the song. And then, she starts to kissing her boyfriend and scenes of Salt-N-Pepa and other couples kissing and hugging are shown. Then the video colorized when Salt-N-Pepa are shown dancing.
Another version of the video has a scene in which a skeleton is shown after the word AIDS with a stamp written censored in his mounth.
[edit] Single charts
| Chart (1984) | Peak position |
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| Australia ARIA Singles Chart | 1 |
| German Singles Chart | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 13 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks | 12 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play | 6 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 51 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 10 |
[edit] Awards
- 1992: Nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.
[edit] See also
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