27 Dec 2006

Music In Porn

The cover of a soundtrack album dedicated to music from 1970s German porn. Get it on next year's Christmas list!

Incidental and themed music are very much a part and parcel of mainstream cinema. But they have never really had quite the same effect on pornography. In fact, most music in porn is so bad that you pray at your volume knob never breaks.

Browsing around VideoBox recently had me making that very same prayer on a number of occasions. Either porn producers simply don't know how to use music in their productions, or music just has next to no part to play in pornography.

Back in the 1970s, when Germany was pumping out softcore porn flicks by the truckload, musicians in that country must never have been out of work. If you ever see any of these films you cannot avoid the 'wokka-wokka' music that clogs up every single one of these films. As such, any attempted eroticism by these flicks is completely evaporated.

Such problems are still the case these days, with producers still seemingly unable to find music that fits the mood. These days it's not so much a problem of the music causing fits of hilarity at the action. The action tends to be a lot slicker than in productions of over 30 years ago, so even an Avril Lavigne track couldn't cause it to be that funny.

A bit of atmospheric trance music in the background is the route that most videos go to, but this is more suited to solo girl or girl-girl action than hardcore anal or something of that ilk. Another problem that these producers have is that they don't have access to tracks from the world's biggest music acts. The latest Eminem track isn't going to pop up in the latest Peter North picture.

So what I would suggest to porn producers everywhere is if you HAVE to use music, at least make sure it fits the mood!

Posted by Steve 07:10:00