Wednesday, October 17, 2007

[ricky martin] sensitive and profound talent

It was long ago I first made the pilgrimage to Hollywood and Vine to see the Immortals in stone and so I missed the 2,351st - one of Puerto Rico's top-selling artists, Ricky "Swivel Hips" Martin.

He's well known for his aptly named campaign against human trafficking and sexual exploitation - the Ricky Martin Foundation.

Ricky immortalized his thoughts on female sexuality in his sensitive double-entendre hit She Bangs:

And she bangs, she bangs
Oh baby
When she moves, she moves
I go crazy
'Cause she looks like a flower but she stings
like a bee
Like every girl in history
She bangs, she bangs

I'm wasted by the way she moves
No one ever looked so fine
She reminds me that a woman only got one thing on her mind.

Thank you, Ricky for reaching to the depths of my libidinous soul with that one and for your message to your millions of shrieking, hysterical teen fans.

Ricky's Star of Fame was, also appropriately, placed outside the Virgin Megastore at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.

Was it apocryphal that when asked his opinion of table dancing, he replied: "Who doesn't love jumping up on the table when the music starts?"

What a guy! Go, Ricky! Yo!

6 comments:

  1. Such a great song, she says, tongue in cheek or finger down throat.

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  2. I hadn't known that Ricky Martin was an activist in this way. Thanks for the clue. I'll have to check it out.

    I've had a sort of love/hate thing with him and his flashiness. He is quite a guy.

    Peace today.

    ~ RS ~

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  3. Not exactly high literature but you can dance to it (same with Livin La Vida Loca)

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  4. JMB - mind boggles.

    Wolfie - you mean Ricky?

    Ruby - your shooz are a mindblast too.

    Welsh - thought you'd love Ricky.

    M&M - that's the main thing, isn't it - not to have to think. :)

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