The Bad Touch

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"The Bad Touch"

Single by The Bloodhound Gang
from the album Hooray for Boobies
Released	May 1999
Format	CD, 12"
Recorded	1999
Genre	Alternative Rock Rap Rock
Length	19:10
Label	Jimmy Franks Recording Company Geffen Records
Producer(s)	Jimmy Pop
Chart positions
#1 (Germany, Latvia,Italy, Ireland) #52 (Billboard Hot 100) #6 (U.S. Modern Rock) #4 (U.K 40 Singles Chart)
The Bloodhound Gang singles chronology
"Along Comes Mary" 1997	"The Bad Touch" 1999	"The Ballad of Chasey Lain" 1999

"The Bad Touch" is the first single by The Bloodhound Gang off their 1999 album Hooray for Boobies. This is perhaps the bands most well-known song and propelled the group into stardom, with lyrics such as "You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals / so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel". It was released in 1999 internationally and a year later in the US and UK. The song was also remixed by Eiffel 65, who also enjoyed a similar short-term success at the time. The music is based on the Pet Shop Boys song "In the Night" (the B-side of the "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" single from the album Please), and was reportedly written in 1986, by then 14-year-old Jimmy Pop.

The song's highly distinctive video features the band dressed in monkey costumes with enormous oversized ears, dancing around Paris – the Eiffel Tower is visible in many shots. During the video, the band first use a blowgun to shoot tranquilizer darts into the legs of several passing ladies, and carry them away. They then use a fishing rod to dangle a piece of Bread in front of a group of chefs, enticing them to follow. The band swallow several maggots, before finding two stereotypically effeminate gay men in a café, who are then beaten over the head with baguettes and knocked unconscious. A dwarf mime artist is captured in a net, and then thrown into a cage with the ladies, chefs, and gay couple. The band leap around the cage taunting their captives. As the song draws to an end, the prisoners are released and all dance together in formation in the street. The mime artist escapes and is run over by a speeding Renault 5 car driven by Lüpüs Thünder.