Track-By-Track: O/B #18
This was the first of a one-two combo of response records I played at O/B. Produced by The Unknown DJ and Professor X from Techno Kut records, it was an answer back to Tone Loc's 'Wild Thing'. Taken together, the two songs paint very different pictures of how the two parties experience the interactions described.
Where Tone Loc casts himself as irresistible to women, softening his rote objectification of their bodies with (rather unexpected tbh) nods to the idea of consent, The Mistress re-tells those encounters from her perspective, suggesting that, rather than being at all consensual, they all involved him being a sleazy motherfucker trying to get his own way, if necessary by paying.
She's just going about her daily business: getting her hair and nails done in time for the club that night; going to the mall to eat some food and hang out with her friends; hitting the bars to dance and have fun. Yet, every step of the way, this man keeps pushing himself on her. Yes, she knows she's "got your wild thang", and takes pride in that fact, but, until she indicates otherwise, she's "not your wild thang" and you should behave accordingly.
I've only played this track two or three times over the past 5 years or so but each time the first drop of that Van Halen drum fill and guitar riff has got a cheer.
The Mistress & DJ Madame E - I Got Your Wild Thang (Techno Kut, 1989)
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Note: this is an entry in the Track-By-Track series for my mix for O/B.
Track-By-Track is a series that looks back at records you will have heard in my mixes, one by one in the order they were played. Who made them, and when? How did I come across them? And what do they make me feel?