Date Rape (song)
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| Single by Sublime | ||
| Released | 1992 | |
| Format | single | |
| Recorded | 1991-1992 at Mambo in Long Beach, California | |
| Genre | Punk/Ska | |
| Length | 3:37 | |
| Label | Gasoline Alley/MCA | |
| Producer(s) | Sublime | |
| Sublime singles chronology | ||
| Jah Won't Pay the Bills (1991) |
40 Oz. to Freedom (1992) |
Robbin' the Hood (1994) |
"Date Rape" is a song by Southern California band Sublime. It appears on the band's 1992 album 40 Oz. to Freedom album. It was first released as a single in 1995 when the famous Los Angeles radio station KROQ started playing it.
Bradley Nowell explained, "I've never raped anyone as far as I can remember. We were at a party a long time ago and we were all talking about how bad date rape was. This guy was like, 'Date rape isn't so bad; if it wasn't for date rape I'd never get laid.' Everyone at the party was bummed out about it, but I was cracking up and I wrote a funny song about it."[citation needed]
Humorous in tone, the song ends with the victimizer being sent to prison and being raped by a larger inmate. It can therefore be seen as a cautionary anti-rape anthem, or as poetic justice, as the man gets a taste of his crime after doing it.
Although Date Rape is one of Sublime's most popular songs, it barely made it on their first CD. Bradley and the other members of the band thought of it as one of their worst songs. They insisted that it was a terrible song and were often reluctant to play it during live shows when fans screamed out requests for it.
Pornographic actor Ron Jeremy stars in the "Date Rape" music video. Jeremy plays both the judge at the rape trial and the "larger inmate" who rapes the man who sexually assaulted the female protagonist of the song. Ron Jeremy himself was referenced in the opening line of the Sublime song "Caress Me Down" which goes "Mucho Gusto, me llamo Bradley, I'm hornier than Ron Jeremy", and also in the unreleased song "89 Vision".
The song was covered by Fishbone on the 2005 Sublime tribute album entitled Look at All the Love We Found for which a music video was directed by Renee Tod and Josh Fischel. Josh is the director of the Sublime documentary Stories, Tales, Lies & Exaggerations.
[edit] External links
| Sublime |
| Bud Gaugh | Bradley Nowell | Eric Wilson |
| Discography |
| Jah Won't Pay the Bills | 40 Oz. to Freedom | Robbin' the Hood | Sublime | Second-hand Smoke | Stand by Your Van |
| Sublime Acoustic: Bradley Nowell & Friends | Greatest Hits | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Sublime | Gold | Everything Under the Sun |
| Popular songs |
| "Date Rape" | "Smoke Two Joints" | "What I Got" | "Wrong Way" | "Doin' Time" | "Santeria" | "April 29, 1992 (Miami)" |
| Tributes and successive bands |
| Look at All the Love We Found | Forever Free | Long Beach Dub Allstars | Long Beach Shortbus |
