Sexuality (Billy Bragg song)

Single by Billy Bragg

"Sexuality"

Single by Billy Bragg
from the album  Don't Try This at Home
Released| September 17, 1991
Genre| Folk rock
Length| 3:47
Label| Elektra
Songwriter(s)| Billy Bragg, Johnny Marr
Producer(s)| Grant Showbiz, Johnny Marr
Billy Bragg singles chronology
| "She's Got a New Spell"
(1988)  | "Sexuality"
(1991)  | "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood"
(1991)

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Music video
"Sexuality" (Official Video) on YouTube

"Sexuality" is the ninth track on Billy Bragg's 1991 album, Don't Try This at Home. The song was released as a single which reached No. 27 on the UK charts and No. 2 on the U.S. alternative charts.

"Sexuality" is an anti-homophobia and generally sex-positive song. It was written by Bragg with Johnny Marr, who also plays guitar on the recording. The music video, which was conceived and directed by comedian Phill Jupitus, features Kirsty MacColl singing backing vocals as well as Jupitus himself.[1]

Jupitus has also performed, with Bragg, a parody version of this song named "Bestiality".[2] In November 2021, Bragg created a re-worded version of the song to reflect support for transgender rights.[3]

## Critical reception

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Upon its release, David Quantick of NME described "Sexuality" as "the funniest and most determined record of the week" and noted the "straightforward and spunky melody". He added, "Bragg goes on marvellously with an absurd storm of rhymes, football teams and paeans to doing it with people of all sexes."[4]

## Personnel

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* Billy Bragg – vocals
* Johnny Marr – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
* Cara Tivey – keyboards
* J. F. T. Hood – drums, percussion
* Amanda Vincent – keyboards
* Jody Linscott – percussion
* Kirsty MacColl – backing vocals
* James Eller – bass

## Chart positions

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Chart (1991)  | Peak
position

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UK Singles (OCC)[5] | 27
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[6] | 2

## References

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1. ^ Duff, Oliver (14 November 2005). "Phill Jupitus: My Life In Media". The Independent. London. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
2. ^ Phil Jupitus & Billy Bragg – Bestiality @ The Hammersmith Apollo. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.
3. ^ Moore, Sam (12 November 2021). "Billy Bragg changes lyrics to song in support of transgender people". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-07-09. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
4. ^ Quantick, David (29 June 1991). "Singles". New Musical Express. p. 18.
5. ^ "Billy Bragg: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
6. ^ "Billy Bragg Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 August 2017.

## External links

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* Official Billy Bragg site

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Billy Bragg

Studio albums|

* Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy
* Brewing Up with Billy Bragg
* Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
* Workers Playtime
* The Internationale
* Don't Try This at Home
* William Bloke
* Mermaid Avenue
* Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
* England, Half-English
* Mr Love & Justice
* Mermaid Avenue Vol. III
* Tooth & Nail
* Shine a Light
* Bridges Not Walls
* The Million Things That Never Happened

Compilations
and boxsets|

* Back to Basics
* The Peel Sessions Album
* Victim of Geography
* Bloke on Bloke
* Reaching to the Converted
* Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg
* Volume 1
* Volume 2
* Fight Songs
* Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions
* The Roaring Forty (1983–2023)

Singles and EPs|

* Between the Wars EP
* "Levi Stubbs' Tears"
* "Greetings to the New Brunette"
* "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards"
* "Sexuality"
* "We Laughed"

Related articles|

* Discography
* Red Wedge
* "A New England"
* Wilco
* Man in the Sand

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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