Try and think of a pop song that isn’t about consent — giving it up, getting it on, the usually delicious, sometimes dangerous confusion of those two things. To say that love is the overriding theme of pop music is misleading. Scratch the surface and you’ll uncover multiple dynamics: power, desire / rejection, abandonment / longing, submission / domination. Some of the songs in this mixtape are about yielding to music, some of them are about yielding to desire, and some of them are about the consent inherent in transaction - both sexual and copyrighted. Our only rule: no blurred lines.
