Frankie Goes To Hollywood, “Krisco Kisses” | LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶

On the 21^st edition of LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 (2022), we highlight the song, “Krisco Kisses” performed by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.  

Bring on the B-O-P-Z, like #SLAYYY! LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 is a column t that embraces, highlights, and celebrates singles and tracks by LGBTQIA musicians.  On LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶we provide background info and insight into the respective musician(s), as well as analyze + go gaga over the bops being served up.  Furthermore, when the music dictates deeper, more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is articulated to the fullest.  All styles of music are welcome and the BOPZ can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, on the 21^st edition of LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 (2022), we highlight 🎵 “Krisco Kisses” performed by 🎙 Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Theme & Lyrics ✍

Well, apparently, Crisco isn’t only used for cooking 😏. That’s right, 🎙 Frankie Goes to Hollywood teaches us another way to use it.  It should come as no surprise that the other use is associated with sex. If you thought 🎵 “Relax” was something else, what about another eyebrow-raising joint from 💿 Welcome to the Pleasuredome, 🎵 “Krisco Kisses”? 🎙 Holly Johnson openly shares what’s ‘going down’ – rather, what is ‘going up.’

“With a fist way past the wrist / Take it to the top.” O…M…G… Yep, Johnson is referencing fisting [an education link, FYI], a sexual act performed by some in the gay community, but also not limited to the gay community (it can be a heterosexual activity, too). Of course, if you do a Google search, you’ll likely run into some pornographic results 😬, which should tell you it’s popular in the adult entertainment industry… We’ll leave it at that.  The point is, Holly Johnson, ever the provocateur embraces X-rated-ness without being profane. “You fit me like a glove, my love /… Take it to the top, my love.” Gah-day-um! If you haven’t figured it out still, out of naivety (perhaps you’re vanilla as they come), shock, or your mind is blown 🤯, the “krisco” serves as lubricant…

“Krisco kisses (kisses!)

Never misses (misses!)

Krisco kisses (kisses!)

You can take it, take it up, up and up…”

Final Thoughts 💭

Music is much more explicit in the 2020s.  That said, in my opinion, 🎙 Frankie Goes To Hollywood still shocks with its progressive brand of music.  I say progressive in the sense that the band was certainly ahead of its time, particularly with LGBTQ themes still very much taboo in the 80s.  Still, as I publish this in 2022, songs about fisting, well, they are rare despite a growing catalog of unapologetically queer music. 🎵 “Krisco Kisses” is, um, something.

🎙 Frankie Goes To Hollywood • 💿 Welcome to the Pleasuredome • 🏷 ZTT Records Limited • 🗓 1984

Frankie Goes To Hollywood, “Krisco Kisses”: LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 No. 21 (2022) [📷: Anna Shvets, Brent Faulkner, Kurious, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, ZTT Records Limited]