O-Town, “Liquid Dreams” | After Dark

On the 1^st edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, “Liquid Dreams” by O-Town. 

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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.  Many of the records featured here raise eyebrows, as well as the temperature! These After Dark tunes focus on the universal three-letter word:  SEX. The dark records gracing After Dark are old and new alike, with all genres of music welcome.  On the 1^st edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, “Liquid Dreams” by O-Town.

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Theme & Lyrics  

One of the requirements of any boy band is to sing songs about girls.  Another requirement? Be hot! O-Town had both things covered during their brief run .  No, they didn’t compare to the likes of Backstreet Boys, N*Sync, or 98º, but they did earn a platinum album ( O-Town, 2001) and a gold single, “Liquid Dreams.” Hmm, what makes a dream liquid exactly? Well, think back to those adolescent days, and a certain release that takes place at night, and you have the most likely answer. Actually, that is the answer, via an interview with Cosmopolitan: “… It’s [‘Liquid Dreams’] about nocturnal emissions, to be honest… [Clive Davis] thought this was a way for us to make ur mark separate: we were a lot more dirty, a lot more edgy than the others [boy bands].” Ooh wee, childdd!!!

“Posters of love surrounding me, lost in a world of fantasy

Every night she comes to me and gives me all the love I need.”

Wow! There’s a significance with the word ‘comes,’ if you catch my drift.  Clearly, the youngsters of O-Town were fantasizing about women they wanted to be with.  By ‘be,’ I do mean, ‘do,’ and by ‘do,’ I do mean have sex.  Woo! The innuendo doesn’t stop there of course, as “this hot girl” is “So fine designed to blow your mind / She’s a dominatrix supermodel beauty queen.” Day-um! Of course, as “Liquid Dreams” progresses, the boys name drop the hottest women whom their sexy girl is patterned after.  In 2001 that included the likes of Destiny’s Child, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek – you get the gist of it! Horny guys who have gotten so worked up they are experiencing these “liquid dreams.” After Dark Sugar Honey Iced Tea, indeed!  

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Final Thoughts  

There’s no way that the music video could depict a nocturnal emission… wouldn’t have been wise! The video is compelling, nonetheless.  That said, the big takeaway regarding “Liquid Dreams” is this is a prime example of utterly infectious, sex-driven pop music.  I mean, has a nocturnal emission ever sounded so rad?

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O-Town • O-Town • J Records • 2001
O-Town, “Liquid Dreams”: After Dark No. 1 (2022) [: Brent Faulkner, cottonbro, Darkmoon_Art, JJ Whitley, J Records, Ketut Subiyanto, KoolShooters, Luan Queiros, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, Tazz Vaughn]

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