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The Sex Issue

by Aish Divine

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Side A:
    Common Questions
    BBC
    Jungly

    Side B:
    objectify me
    Pulchritude of Loss
    The Sex Issue
    untitled


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1.
hey sup u lookin? not much just chillin hey sup, you looking? not much, just chilling hey sup, you looking? what u into? looking to party AYAYAYA hey sup, you looking? ice tina pnp, only drama free hey sup, you looking? pics, pics, dick pics whatcha into? white only whatcha into? no fems whatcha into? no asians whatcha into? no offence whatcha into? watersports whatcha into? muscle only whatcha into? sugar daddy AYAYAYA whatcha into? twinks, twinks, twinks now, don’t get salty ain’t got time for common questions, i just want a man with intuition who knows how to keep my attention, he’s a good f*** and tender affection common questions AYAYAYA common questions AYAYAYA cut or uncut? host or travel? masc or fem? sub or dom? top or bottom? i be hopping like marlon bundo i want a wesley he buy me a condo he make me feel like I fly like dumbo he got a trunk its plus size jumbo we gonna date night make me a gumbo for dessert he serve affogato he make my heart jump much arigato i wanna pop a ring on his finger how hung? you clean? how hung? how old? how hung? on prep? how hung? threesome? how hung? Location? WHERE now don’t get hunty ain’t got time for consultations, i just wanna man who can keep an erection he knows how to handle his emotions, he’s a good look for public situations this ain’t free sex education, you can skip the formal introduction if you got posh presentation, maybe I’ll take you on vacation common questions AYAYAYA common questions AYAYAYA ain’t got time for common questions Ain’t got time for common questions
2.
BBC 03:34
I’m so picky picky picky for sticky, juicy News from the BBC, my juice from the BBC I know the truth, it hurts but I gotta face my fears So unzip, let it escalate, I wait to be amazed So much news to consume, erry morning press play resume With news from the BBC, all the juice from the BBC Such a news gang, bang bang BBC 1, BBC 2, BBC 3 It don’t matter if you’re black or white, girl or boy I like it when I can’t decide, just strap on the BBC I love my news from BBC, my juice from BBC New from the BBC All the juice from the BBC It’s personal preference with that extra difference What can I say, frum pum pum, I like my facts intact Monster in the hood, never felt so good Gucci Prada Balenciaga Lady Gaga Netflix Chill No contest with BBC Blew my fuse with BBC My news from BBC My juice from BBC I love a deep, investigation, expand my horizons This is not just recreation It’s the biggest, baddest in the whole damn nation Nothing compares to my news from the BBC, all the juice from the BBC New from the BBC All the juice from the BBC
3.
Jungly 03:14
What good is love if you gonna hold down the beast I want What good is love if you won’t devour what’s only yours What good is love if you don’t provoke what I’m asking for What good is love if I can’t hunt you and taste all your parts So baby do as you please, hold me with greed till fear and pleasure meet Do it like you feel it, like you mean it I want your junga junga jungly Do it like you feel it, like you mean it I want your junga junga jungly And after we’re done, I want your sweet What good is love if you can’t hose my fire with the sap I want What good is it, if I can’t taste it like wild giraffes What good is love if you’re silent, vowels aren’t violent What good is love if you don’t invade till they gotta make new laws So baby give me some teeth, wanna feel you real deep, trap me till release Do it...birds do it, bees do it, educated fleas... Do it like you feel it, like you mean it I want your junga junga jungly Do it like you feel it, like you mean it I want your junga junga jungly And after we’re done, I want your sweet
4.
Feel 04:20
5.
Sexy Slay 03:25
Kill them with my criminal gaze Crush them with my perfect fade Popping like I don’t care Kill them with my criminal gaze Crush them with my perfect fade Hit them in my Givenchy Slay them like Beyonce Throw down some cocky shade Popping like I don’t care Tonight gonna let my hair down motherfuckers Tonight gonna plume till I’m out motherfuckers Tonight all my fucks ran out motherfuckers Tonight gonna snatch the crown motherfuckers Tonight gonna fan my blowout motherfuckers Tonight gonna be a knockout motherfuckers Tonight gonna stir a sashay motherfuckers Tonight I’m a star Cuz my sexy slay, pose, gimme sexy slay, pose, gimme sexy slay, pose, gimme sexy slay, pose Werk it like it’s ballet Blind em with my perfect 10 Strike it my hands are blades Bounce it like New Orleans Now hit it I’m all the craze Kansai like I don’t care Tonight gonna let my hair down motherfuckers Tonight gonna plume till I’m out motherfuckers Tonight all my fucks ran out motherfuckers Tonight gonna snatch the crown motherfuckers Tonight gonna fan my blowout motherfuckers Tonight gonna be a knockout motherfuckers Tonight gonna stir a sashay motherfuckers Tonight I’m a star Cuz my sexy slay, pose, gimme sexy slay, pose, gimme sexy slay, pose, gimme sexy slay, pose
6.
Master 03:57
Flog it, flog it, flog it master Kennel on fire, spray it down master Nursing sick, tell me doctor Did you want your patient, wrapped in a diaper Fill ‘em all (holes), you got options Lick ‘em toes, lucky for master Keep it thirsty, cruel master Gotta bad itch, want a strong master Can you hold up master, hold up master, hold up master, hold All through the day, I call the shots Make me obey cuz I been bad Make me your prey, play your part It’s just a game, I’m still in charge When you reach the tip, keep going master Make it hurt, did you hear stop master? Stop. Ask for more, make it count master Did you hear me ask, don’t you try master Before the handcuff, safe word master Berkeley horse, Blindfold Icecold, Leash hold, Footstool, Ashtray, Shower soaked Make it last master, make it art master, I’m in charge master, Charge All through the day, I call the shots Make me obey cuz I been bad Make me your prey, play your part It’s just a game, I’m still in charge All through the day, I call the shots Make me obey cuz I been bad Make me your prey, play your part It’s just a game, I’m still in charge
7.
objectify me 04:16
Don’t humanize me, I won’t be enough Don’t analyze me, I might turn to dust Give me all your love Give me all your love Give me all your love Give me all your love Objectify, objectify me Objectify, objectify me Don't let me see me for who I really am It terrifies me when you know too much Just symbolize me, wear me like a glove Just fetishize me, pin me to your shirt Don’t shed a tear, don’t ask me for my love I’m just an object of your fascination I’m only as good as your imagination, so Objectify, objectify me Objectify, objectify me I am a symbol of your social status I am a fountain of your fascination I am a guardian of your victimhood Don’t ask for my love, give me all your love Objectify, objectify me Objectify, objectify me I am a symbol of your social status I am a fountain of your fascination I am a guardian of your victimhood Don’t ask for my love, give me all your love
8.
I’d betray the shape of reality If I denied my lost love’s beauty I was raised in the praise of shadows So I came to see light too shallow In a sky shattered by a swooping swan In a kingdom bound with roots and moss I’ve seen Pulchritude of loss Oh my love you'll never understand Why my sorrow has no regret If I kept count of every cloud that passed me by I’ll run out of numbers, I’ll miss the charm of goodbye In my solitude of unhurried childhood, In the blues of a painted old guitarist I’ve seen Pulchritude of loss
9.
Lonely 03:34
I got lonely I got lonely I got lonely I missed how we used to be, but you were always so busy Tried and tried but you couldn’t talk to me, you didn’t have the vocabulary So confused, was it me? Am I the one with all these needs? But you gave up on us so easily, I begged, I begged you to sleep with me I wish you’d let me free before I meet a man I’d never seen He held my hand, he talked to me, he wiped my tears as he came on me Still in love with you But I’m human too I just wanna know What I had meant to you But you gave up It just hit me most You didn’t even talk to me And you gave up Will we ever be the same? Why do I love you still? I got lonely
10.
Unfurler 03:23
I envy flowers that bloom in spring, my petals were plucked to bloom I realized my power too soon, I stood here unfurled I write these words for anyone who struggles with guilt and confusion Still waiting for your confession, you’ll never find resolution Someday you’ll know better uh You’re gonna have to trust yourself You’re gonna have to love yourself You’re gonna have to love yourself I envy this empty canvas, so pure, so blank, ready to be touched I was born coloured, I never felt complete Someday I’ll know better uh I’ll learn not to blame myself I’ll never betray my child That day I start to trust me more That day I start to love me more That day i start to love you more I envy these wild giraffes, their necks so noble, held up high in pride My neck is bent with an irreparable past Did I participate? Why did I feel so much shame? But, unfurler, now I know better Unfurler, I’m not ashamed Unfurler, I’m not afraid As I stand here, rebuilt
11.
I’m in love with you, but I sleep with someone else He doesn’t mean much but he makes me feel alive He makes me feel wanted, he makes you want me once more I’m in love with you, but I sleep with someone else Some secrets you keep, for only strangers to tell Hotels with king sized beds, all at once I love and loathe myself I’m in love with you, but I sleep with someone else Lost in canyons and cataracts, I was exiled by sexlessness He makes me remember how we felt to be full of possibilities again I’m in love with you, but I sleep with someone else He’ll never have your depth that filled my emptiness He takes me to a time, we wished our nights would never end
12.
Girl, he don’t f*** Oooh magnetic boy Oooh peculiar boy Ooh delicious boy Oooh uncertain boy You listen to me, your dreams are going to come true You get me? Trust me I will follow you through Ooh enigmatic boy Ooh mercurial boy Ooh enchanting boy Ooh curious boy You listen to me, your dreams are going to come true You get me? Trust me I will follow you through You feel me? You’ve got magic you’ve got voodoo Girl, he don’t f*** Oooh magnetic boy Oooh peculiar boy Ooh delicious boy Oooh uncertain boy You listen to me, your dreams are going to come true You get me? Trust me I will follow you through You listen to me, your dreams are going to come true You get me? Trust me I will follow you through
13.
sadness-B 04:50
My sadness is a mountain, I can only marvel at her grandeur My sadness is an ocean, she holds depths that only go deeper My sadness is a visage of a man of delicate masculinity My sadness is unfettered like the boundless joy of childhood My sadness is a koan, a paradox of reality My sadness is a bright room of an arboretum with the oddest bloom My sadness is a strange gift, an empty box, a bow that contains me
14.
happy 03:00
I saw her with a photo of a man who smiles She must be happy I saw him picking dandelions on the hill He must be happy I saw her hop from flower to flower She must be happy I saw them holding hands down Valencia They must be happy Sorrow hold me in your arms Sorrow be the mother I want Sorrow cradle me like you do Sorrow colour me blue
15.
Tell me, what’s going on? Did we come too close? Am I not your fantasy Anymore? Baby, tell me what is wrong? Is it the happy pills? Is it more work to pay the same bills? Baby, tell me what’s wrong, is it pornography? All the technology we use? We’ve been through the power issue, through the colour issue, through religion issue, this is, This is the sex issue, your face on the cover After all the glossy pages, I turn back to you We were so misguided by the ideas of what a man’s supposed to be. Will you tell me if I’m asking for consent when it’s a safe word you want? We still got some time, we can freeze our cells, our children will be born long after we’re gone We’ve been through the mother issue, through the money issue, through the gender issue, this is, This is the sex issue, your face on the cover After all the glossy pages, I turn back to you Sex is sour, sex is sweet, explodes like a summer peach Sex is madness, sex is dark Sex is tender, it’s gender, sex is power, sex is love And, when you love, how does it feel, when you desire, how is it different? (Esther Perel) This is the sex issue, your face on the cover After all the glossy pages, I turn back to you

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The Sex Issue, Aish Divine’s follow up LP to Mother, serves sex realness with laughter, sadness, euphoria and vogue. “Common Questions” is the Grindr dating experience, “Jungly” expresses primal sexuality, “BBC” is a pornhub category and ”Unfurler” deals with abuse. The Sex Issue unfurls around a percussive core built with marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, santur, gamelan and electronic beats. The Sex Issue is a reflection, an exposé, an observation of modern love and sexuality.

Aish Divine worked with a non-binary cast and only female directors on the music videos for The Sex Issue. Escaping persecution and an abusive living situation, he studied voice and composition. He released Mother, an orchestral ode to his relationship with the mother figure to positive reception and a 16 date tour, including playing to a 3000 person anti-Trump rally at San Francisco’s Civic Center. The Sex Issue is a complete sonic and emotional 360 from Mother.

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released December 4, 2020

Producers: Aish Divine & Beau Sorenson
Writer: Aishvarya Shukla
Composer: Aish Divine
Backup Vocals: Maria Long
Timpani, Marimba: Lily Sevier
Strings: Magik*Magik Orchestra

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Aish Divine subverts, perverts, and elevates pop. For the classically trained composer, writer, singer, producer, and conceptualist, pop is a potent medium for catharsis, social commentary, art and pure listening pleasure. The New York City-based artist’s latest, The Sex Issue, bursts with realness, humor, sadness, anger, euphoria into a colorful exposé of modern love. ... more

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