Cigarettes After Sex, “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” | After Dark 🕛 🌃

On the 4^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, sexual vibes behind, “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” by Cigarettes After Sex. 

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nnuendo? More like full-on sexual vibes! Welcome to After Dark 🕛 🌃, a column featuring songs that are best suited for nighttime, specifically, the bedroom.  Like Controversial Tunes 😈🎶, the records featured here raise eyebrows.  The difference between the songs of CONTROVERSY and DARK? These songs specifically focus on the universal topic of S-E-X. The dark records gracing After Dark are old and new alike, with all genres of music welcome.  On the 4^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, sexual vibes behind, 🎵 “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” by 🎙 Cigarettes After Sex.

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Theme & Lyrics ✍ 

“Whispered something in your ear / It was a perverted thing to say.” Perverted, huh? Sounds totally applicable to After Dark 🕛 🌃 if I do say so myself.  🎙 Greg Gonzalez, the frontman of dream/ ambient pop 🎙 Cigarettes After Sex continues, “But I said it anyway / Made you smile and look away.”  While saying something perverted could be a potential problem, in the case of 🎵 “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby,” the vibe is these are two people who like/love one another.  On this highlight from 💿 I. (EP) released in 2012, Gonzalez makes it clear he won’t do anything to hurt her; he’ll protect her at all costs!

“Nothing’s gonna hurt you baby

As long as you’re with me you’ll be just fine

Nothing’s gonna hurt you baby

Nothing’s gonna take you from my side.”

Considering its status as ambient, dream pop, “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You” has a calming, chill, and smooth vibe. Greg Gonzalez sings with ease, never forcing things. This approach amplifies the sexiness as well as the pureness of this romance. In the second verse, things end freakily – “always ends in a hazy shower scene.” But there are also lighter moments, such as listening “To that silly 90’s R&B” and simply “laughing in the microphone and singing / With our sunglasses on to our favorite songs.”  Ah, to be in love!

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Final Thoughts 💭 

Cigarettes After Sex deliver the perfect romantic and sexy After Dark 🕛 🌃 with 🎵 “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”.  There’s a hint of risqué – that perverted whisper or that “hazy shower scene” – but Gonzalez and company don’t cross the lines like some of our other After Dark entries.  Maybe characterizing it as classy is an overstatement, but, there’s lots to like about this decade-old (!) gem.

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🎙 Cigarettes After Sex • 💿 I. (EP) • 🏷 Cigarettes After Sex • 🗓 2012
Cigarettes After Sex, “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”: After Dark No. 4 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, Cigarettes After Sex, cottonbro from Pexels, KoolShooters from Pexels, Luan Queiros from Pexels, The Musical Hype]

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