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"Baby Talks Dirty" is a 1980 Top 40 single written by Doug Fieger and Berton Averre from The Knack's second album, ''...But the Little Girls Understand''. Like the album it was taken from, "Baby Talks Dirty" fell short of the success of its predecessors. Whereas The Knack's first single, "My Sharona" reached #1 in the U.S., and its follow-up from their debut album ''Get the Knack'', "Good Girls Don't" reached #11, "Baby Talks Dirty" only reached #30 in Cash Box and #38 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, spending just 2 weeks in the Top 40.〔 The song did better in Canada, where it reached #13. It also reached #40 in New Zealand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Knack&titel=Baby+Talks+Dirty&cat=s )〕 ==Music and lyrics== Part of the song's lack of success has been attributed to its similarity to "My Sharona".〔 The 1983 edition of ''The New Rolling Stone Record Guide'' referred to the song as a "'Sharona carbon copy." Allmusic's Chris Woodstra noted that the entire ''...But the Little Girls Understand'' album is a "rewrite" of the band's first album, stating that this is "especially evident on the lead-off single 'Baby Talks Dirty.'" Author Tim English called "Baby Talks Dirty" "a transparent 'My Sharona' rewrite." Anne Sharp of ''The Michigan Daily'' pointed out similarities between "My Sharona" and "Baby Talks Dirty" with respect to "vocal arrangements," "guitar licks" and "subject matter, i.e., a sexually ardent young female." ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' also pointed out that "Baby Talks Dirty" "sounds for all the world like 'My Sharona.'" Jim Sullivan of the Bangor Daily News noted the songs' "structural similarity" and referred to "Baby Talks Dirty" as "My Sharona Mach II." Sullivan also criticizes Fieger's performance on the song as "whooping it up like a Sea World porpoise indulging in S&M games."〔 Another factor in the song's, and its album's, relative lack of chart success was its timing, being released a mere eight months after "My Sharona" and ''Get The Knack''.〔 This made the similarity between "My Sharona" and "Baby Talks Dirty" more jarring.〔 Theodore Cateforis notes that "In this context, 'Baby Talks Dirty,' with its syncopated, bouncing octave eighth-note hook cut from the same mold as 'My Sharona,' sounded most of all as if the band had plagiarized itself."〔 Fieger has stated that "We got a lot of criticism for 'Baby Talks Dirty.' Had that song come out on our fifth album, I think people would have said 'oh, they've gone back to their roots. They take the 'My Sharona' riff to another place.' But as it was, people were gunning for us."〔 But Fieger has also stated that he doesn't think the song sounds like "My Sharona," other than the fact that "it's got a rhythmic G note that goes from G major to the seventh of the G."〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Dominic, S. )〕 "Baby Talks Dirty" was also given by critics as a prime example of the group's misogyny, where the girl in the song wants the singer to hurt her and "loves a real neat beating." In his review of ''...But the Little Girls Understand'', ''Rolling Stone Magazine'' critic Dave Marsh referred to the protagonist as "a foul-mouthed windup doll." Although Fieger believed that "Baby Talks Dirty" was an "honest song" that could have been successful, other members of the band acknowledged reservations with the lyrics. Averre acknowledged that the lyrics were "slimy," and may have gone too far over the line.〔 Bassist Prescott Niles claims to have disliked the lyrics altogether, disliking that the woman in the song is asking for a beating and the moaning "ah"'s that follow her requests to be hurt.〔 Producer Mike Chapman felt that the lyrics were "over the top" and that they represent Fieger being a "smart ass."〔 Fieger has acknowledged that, like many songs on The Knack's first two albums, "Baby Talks Dirty" was written about the same Sharona Alperin who inspired "My Sharona". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baby Talks Dirty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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