The Bad Touch

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“The Bad Touch”
“The Bad Touch” cover
Single by The Bloodhound Gang
from the album Hooray for Boobies
Released May 1999
Format CD, 12"
Recorded 1999
Genre Alternative Hip hop
Synth pop
Length 4:20
Label Jimmy Franks Recording Company
Geffen Records
Producer Jimmy Pop
Certification Silver (BPI)
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. It was released in 1999 internationally and, a year later, in the U.S. and UK. The song was also remixed by God Lives Underwater & Eiffel 65. 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 supposedly written in 1986 by then 14-year-old Jimmy Pop, despite the presence of a reference to a television series which premiered in 1993. The song's title is an apparent reference to child molestation, a "bad touch" being a child's way of describing the fondling of their genitals or other "private areas", generally by an adult.

The song's catchy chorus features the couplet, "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals/ so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel." The Discovery Channel is a cable TV channel which frequently shows nature documentaries, often featuring footage of animals mating. The picture sleeve for the single shows two zebras copulating.

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[edit] Music video

The song's highly distinctive video features the band dressed in "MonkeyRat" costumes with enormous oversized ears, dancing around Paris – the Eiffel Tower is visible in many shots. During the video, the band uses blowguns to shoot tranquilizer darts into the legs of several passing ladies, carrying them away. They then use a fishing rod to dangle a steak in front of a group of chefs, enticing them to follow. The band swallow several mealworms, 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. The uncensored version of the video shows the band playing with feces and eating it, and a beginning which features them in a doggystyle position rather than performing in the clean version. The video reached #11 on MuchMusic's 50 Most Controversial Videos for references to bestiality, sexual lyrics, insulting French people, gay people, and chefs.

[edit] Charts performances

[edit] Cultural references

The song contains many cultural references. These include (in order):

[edit] References

When the Renault 5 car driven by Lüpüs Thünder hits the dwarf mime artist, Lupus throws a coin out, which is a reference to "A Tale Of Two Cities", when the man runs over the child with his coach, and throws coins at the parents to pay for the loss. Almost every line in the song is a double entendre for having sex.

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