OHIO PLAYERS SOUL MAN UPSET ABOUT STANDARDS TODAY
Veteran soul man JAMES ‘DIAMOND’ WILLIAMS has taken aim at today’s young artists for ignoring decency and singing all about sex.
The Ohio Players star, famous for his risque sex-charged songs and racy album covers, insists the Love Rollercoaster and Sweet Sticky Thing hitm akers left a lot to the imagination - because their songs would be rightl y banned from radio if they went to far.
But nowadays, he’s shocked when he hears teenage hitmakers singing and rapping about sex.
He tells WENN, "I do not approve and I think, as these artists grow up and come of age, that they’ll have a lot to look back on and say, ‘I wish I had said this differently’.
"The industry and society have allowed these artists to say things such as they say today and be so blatant in their expressions.
"When we were in the studio and our music was in the charts, there was a certain line that was drawn; you couldn’t say certain things. It wasn’t really hip to get bleeped on the radio… The chances were you ain’t gon na get played. The line has been dropped.
"This is not right for our kids. I’ve been at festivals where certain m usic was being played and I look at these kids singing the words to these songs and there’s, like, four or five-year-old kids saying, ‘Let me lick you up and down,’ and ‘Let me do whatever!’ It doesn’t look right coming out of their mouths. This is crazy.
"At least we left it to your imagination what Sweet Sticky Thing is. Th e phrase could mean anything to you."
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