What a fun song! It’s a few years old now, but glad the liberal fear of sex and their absurd prudishness hasn’t take over everything everywhere.

Don’t have time to write an entire exegesis on how this differs from the performative sexuality of “WAP,” and even though I think the lyrics of WAP are funny, that song leaves all sensuality behind for a catalog of fetishes and a list of “what I will do for various fees on my OnlyFans site.” It’s not celebratory or lustful — it’s more of a consumer wishlist.

“La dalle,” however, is about lust and is far more sensual and interesting and feels like sex actually works. “Ravenous” is a better elucidation of that craving, that hunger, of pure lust. In reality, no woman (nearly) sits around thinking about her wet-ass pussy, especially in the act, in the moment — just as no man in the moment thinks about his hard cock. That’s all for the page, for show, for a silly song that’s neutralizing of desire while ostentatiously aspiring to be its exponent. “La dalle” uses the metaphor of food for sex, and though that’s common in songs it’s also quite apropos because unlike what modern liberals believe, sex is just as vital for human flourishing and its own way is just as essential as food. I don’t think that link of sustenance to sex is at all a mistake on L.E.J.’s part. They know what they are playing at.

“WAP” is the algorithmic obverse of prudishness, another aspect of that disconnected and alienating future of screen sex, combined with terror of the real fleshy sweaty act, while “La dalle” is playful and in its controlled choreography of strings and waiters (in the video) and uses this antonymic juxtaposition to further highlight the strength of those unconstrained urges and how they function in non-algorithmically-contaminated human psyches.