Air - Sexy Boy

Sexy boy.

Album: Moon Safari [debut album]
Recorded: Paris & London
Genre: Indietronica
Album Release: January 16th 1998
Length: 4.58
Producer: Air
Vocalist:
Label: Virgin Records

Music Video


Live on Jools Holland


Live in 2016

Charts, Streams & Sales

Belgium (singles): #11
France (albums): #21 [1x gold]
Germany (albums): Certified gold
UK (albums): #6 [x2 platinum]
UK (singles): #13 [1x silver]
Spotify: 85,000,000 +
YouTube Music: 12,000,000 +

Credits

ARP Sonic Strings, Bass, Electric Guitar, Flute [x2], Korg Synthesizer, Moog Synthesizer, Organ, Percussion, Rhodes Piano,

Details

• Air's first album has a strong melodic sense that isn't found on their later work because they deperately wanted their debut to be well received commercially. There are several massive pop songs on Moon Safari but most of all 'Sexy Boy'. When they say that 'Sexy Boy' was how they wished themselves to be the monkey featured in the video is of King Kong proportions. They wanted to make it BIG! The monkey in 'Sexy Boy' reflects the size of the band ambition because for Jean-Benoit Dunckel it would be how he would feed his kid. He would sit in Paris dreaming and reading sci-fi novels and then he would feed his baby, and make songs, and dream some more of the life he would be able to provide his son through music. His dream came true.
  
  
• The vocals were performed using a talk box, which allows a performer to control an instrument with their voice.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "Sexy Boy is a seduction song, and it's about how heterosexual men can be happy to look at other men because they want to check how they are dressed. It’s more about a fashion thing. "OK, we are men, and we want to look sexy for the girls, and anybody else." It's about this taboo idea that men can be erotic too. It’s not about homosexuality or heterosexuality, it's about looking good." (Jean-Benoit Dunckel talking to Stereogum in 2024)
  
  

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