Kiss Kiss Kiss
Yoko Ono
Recorded in 1980, "Kiss Kiss Kiss" appeared on Double Fantasy and reads now as both personal document and cultural provocation. Ono's vocal performance includes genuine sexual sounds — moans and whispers — embedded in a New Wave production that was genuinely transgressive at the time of release and remains uncomfortable in productive ways. The song asserts female desire as compositional material with no apology, which is the artistic statement. The production has the clean, slightly cold sound of late-70s studio craft, and Ono's voice rides over it as if the sonic infrastructure were irrelevant to her purpose. For listeners interested in how Ono's practice anticipated feminist art theory and sex-positive politics by decades, this track is evidence. Play it at moderate volume around people who think they know everything.
medium
1980s
cool, provocative, clean
Japan
New Wave, Art pop. Experimental pop. Provocative, Assertive. Maintains a steady, unapologetic assertion of female desire as compositional fact from opening to close.. energy 6. medium. danceability 6. valence 6. vocals: transgressive, whispering, moaning, cool, declarative. production: New Wave, clean studio, cold, late-70s. texture: cool, provocative, clean. acousticness 2. era: 1980s. Japan. A deliberate provocation for people who believe they understand everything about desire and art.