"Sex on Fire" by Kings of Leon: Hottest Video of 2008?
The video for Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire” is definitely not explicit, and when it came out Rolling Stone went as far as to call it “false advertising” because they thought it failed to deliver on the blatant sexuality of the song’s lyrics. But I beg to differ with the critics on this one because I don’t believe I’ve seen another rock video this year (or any time in recent memory) that has generated such a feverish response amongst female fans. And the word I’ve heard used most often in describing the viewing experience? “Hot.” Plain and simple. Perhaps we are base creatures and it’s all just a reaction to the Followill brothers' extraordinary genes, but I tend to think that the real reason this video has women burning up is that innuendo is actually the hottest thing of all.
What do you think? “Sex on Fire,” hot or not?
--Shelby Earl
on November 18, 2008 at 09:11 AM
Innuendo all the way. HOT.
Though I could do without the roosters?
on November 17, 2008 at 06:25 PM
The song has an anachronistic feel to it that contrasts with the video's seedy, post-apocalyptic, sex-rehab warehouse scenario. The song wouldn't be out of place in the canon of Eddie Money or John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, but the video is more Nine Inch Nails. Neither element is sexy by itself, but the combination of an 80's pop song with images of sweaty boys showering, fondling one another, and chasing a round a black cock(erel), somehow makes it sexy, if disturbingly so.
Karen Ehlers on November 17, 2008 at 02:16 PM
The song is way hotter than the video.
I have better images in my head than they did in the video.
Yawn.
guess on November 17, 2008 at 01:32 PM
the video makes me think naughty things. so hot.
An American in Paris on November 17, 2008 at 01:22 PM
So definitely hot it's ridiculous.