Song highlight: Playboy

As mentioned in the previous post 2 weeks ago (I know, sorry for the delay), La Toya's sexuality has been a intriguing discussion topic for decades. Her outrageous Playboy photoshoots are only a small fragment of the huge variety of sexual perversions on La Toya's platter. As I also mentioned last time, the Queen of Pop even recorded a song during her naked escapades, fittingly named Playboy. But don't let the name fool you! The song itself, despite the name, isn't an attempt to cash in on a related project like I Don't Play That. It's so much more than that.

Playboy was released on La Toya's most famous album Bad Girl, which, to the delight of Toy soldiers around the world, is still available today. 

Playboy deals with very strong emotions like love, sexuality, submission to a male partner among other things. If one looks behind the sexual overtones the song gives during the first or second hearing, the listener might get a VIP entrance through La Toya's heavily guarded front door, where a huge variety of deep feelings are discovered. Mainly, in my opinion, Playboy is ultimately about love and submitting oneself to those dangerous feelings. When La Toya's sweet voice opens the song with the unforgettable spoken line "I wanna be your Toy, ooh", the listener should by all means become instantly hooked. 

Musically speaking, Playboy is genius. Not only does it provide the listener with a very soothing and enjoyable listening experience, masterminded by the severely underrated German producer and singer Anthony Monn, but it manages to go even further by reinventing itself on the No Relations album, as a longer and even more Toygasmic anthem, (Be My) Playboy. Only Toy can perfect the already perfect. 

Have a Toygasmic week, and don't forget to buy La Toya's new masterpiece, "Home"! 

BONUS: Here's some high-quality Toy wallpapers I made in widescreen format, enjoy!

Sexual Feelings

La Toya Jackson, one of the greatest female entertainers in the history of music, has gone through several musical and personal transitions during her almost 30-year old career. Somehow, her creativity has never diminished in these many years. When she unleashed her self-titled first musical masterpiece, her sexuality and her Shakespearean  lyrics were already there, but not fully evolved. When you compare the funny and cute lyrics in If You Feel The Funk:

If you feel the funk shake your rump
Shake your rump to the funk
Won't you shake it?

to the outrageous and sexually loaded lines in songs like Sexual Feeling:

(Don't touch it baby, don't you dare touch it!)
(Do you know what I mean?)
Come, let me feel it deeper inside!
Can you feel it?
Can you hear me say ooh?
Ooh, that's good, that' good, ooh baby
Ooh, touch, touch, touch it
Touch baby

..the difference is breathtaking! And it really shows how La Toya evolved from a manifactured, commercially appealing artist into a sexual goddess, a free spirit with no limits and almost unrecognizable from her former self (in a good way of course;). 



 The sexual evolution of Toy doesn't stop here. As a way of rebelling against her mother, she also decided to do two raunchy Playboy shoots, and she even dedicated an entire song to this escapade, "Playboy", while at the same time promoting a book about family abuse. That's just Toy!

Have a Toygasmic week!

It was so many years ago..

Yes, it was many years ago. After a decade of Toy abstinence and patient waiting, the small but delightfully devoted army of Toy Soldiers got the Toygasm that they had been craving for so long, in the form of Home, a wonderful tribute from La Toya to her recently deceased brother Michael. In true Toy style, the song was actually recorded back in 2002 as a tribute to the family, but her record label (JaTail/Bungalo) made the wisest of choices when they decided to release it a mere month after Michael's death to show La Toya's beautiful intentions to the world. Strangely, La Toya's official website was closed the day before the song was released. Classic.

The song itself is a rather soulful and personal ballad, musically comparable to gems like "Be My Lover" and "Camp Kuchi Kaiai". Curiously, Michael is only referenced to in a single line, where he is called "Joker", a nickname for him invented by Toy. I like the infectious, majestic voice of La Toya in this particular song, but unfortunately her stunning vocals gets occasionally drowned by a huge group of background vocalists, especially in the chorus. Also, I'm personally a bit worried that the general public won't see this as a tribute, rather something like a publicity stunt. But as Toy has lectured: 

"All publicity is good publicity."

See you next week! 

UPDATE:

Click here to download "Home"!

Are you ready?