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A safe-for-MTV alternate video was produced, which was directed by Godley & Creme, the pair behind Duran Duran’s decidedly unsafe-for-MTV video for “Girls on Film.” The Godley & Creme version features Johnson shimmying in front of a laser light show, presumably inspired by the part of the song where he snarls sexily about getting hit with laser beams.Frankie Says Relax Frankenstein Fan Shirt T-Shirt Hoodie.

Controversy gave the song the usual scandal-driven shot in the arm, and it began a slow but lasting ascent up the charts, eventually reaching number one in the UK and most of Europe and hitting number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 by March 1985.Īcross the Atlantic, the song received plenty of radio play, though MTV, the killjoys, refused to air the exuberantly raunchy Bernard Rose-directed video. “Relax” was subsequently banned from all outlets of the BBC, which refused to give airtime to either the song or the video. Shortly after its initial release in November 1983, so legend goes, the lyrics of “Relax” scandalized BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read enough to make him yank the stylus up from the turntable mid-song and balk at ever playing it again. Much like the song itself, the ad campaign is not especially subtle. Wham! kicked this trend off in their 1984 “ Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” video, in which George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley wore baggy white t-shirts with “CHOOSE LIFE” printed on the front, while Frankie Goes to Hollywood followed on their heels with shirts that proclaimed “FRANKIE SAY RELAX.” Omnipresent throughout the eighties, the slogan later popped up as a punchline on a mid-nineties episode of Friends. In the mid-eighties, people wore their personal credos across their chests all the time. My brain resolved it as two words, ESP and SPIRIT I assumed my classmate was proclaiming her allegiance to the paranormal realm, which seemed to make a certain amount of sense. Her sweatshirt featured the brand name printed in oversized letters: ESP on the front, with the -SPRIT wrapping around under her armpit and across her back. At that moment, ESPRIT was on the cusp of becoming an eighties fashion juggernaut, and this was my first exposure to it. My classmate wore a sleeveless pastel ESPRIT sweatshirt to volleyball practice that day, which has somehow burned itself into my memory. Someday I’ll give you all an essay on Smut I Read Before I Turned Twelve, but today is not that day.) They did not I was an egalitarian devourer of smut.

(I’d like to be able to point to Lady Chatterley’s Lover as proof my tastes in dirty books skewed toward the highbrow in my formative years. Those virile chaps in Frankie Goes to Hollywood could have been cumming or coming it hardly matters. I was too meek to contradict my classmate, and even in fifth grade I knew this was probably a weird hill to die on, so I nodded and agreed with her. I had my quiet doubts about this Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which I’d read earlier that year, featured many passages about orgasming, all of which used a more traditional spelling: c-o-m-e. I remember sitting on a bench in the gym with a classmate during volleyball practice, deep in conversation about “Relax.” My friend argued that the word “come,” as in “when you wanna come,” was actually spelled “cum” when used to refer to ejaculation. “Relax” is a spewing, spurting geyser of a song.Īs a fifth grader in 1985, I knew the “motivation” explanation didn’t hold water. No one at any point in history from the song’s release to the present has ever been fuzzy about the meaning of “Relax” motivational speeches, after all, rarely invoke the phrase “suck to it.” Lyrically, “Relax” is not subtle (“ shoot it in the right direction”) sonically, the track contains enough grunting and gushing to broadcast its intentions to those who don’t understand spoken English. In the liner notes to their 1984 debut album Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Frankie Goes to Hollywood bassist Mark O’Toole writes of the band’s hit “Relax,” “hen it first came out we used to pretend it was about motivation, and really it was about shagging.”