We're All Mammals part I

The Bad Touch

"The Bad Touch" is a song recorded by American alternative band Bloodhound Gang. It was released in May 1999 as the lead single from their album Hooray for Boobies. It was released a year later, in the US and UK. The song was remixed by many artists including God Lives Underwater, KMFDM and Eiffel 65. Like much of the Bloodhound Gang's other music, the song contains a wide variety of sexual colloquialisms. The sleeve for the single features a photo of two fucking zebras.

Bloodhound Gang

Bloodhound Gang is a Collegeville, Pennsylvania-based American alternative/punk band, although it began as a rap group and gradually changed their genre throughout the years. Their songs typically have humorous and off-beat, satirical lyrics that often deal with controversial subjects and contain many puns and innuendos. Bloodhound Gang's keyboardist, Q-Ball, uses the Alesis micron to create edgy sounds that drive many of the band's songs.

They are best known for their hit singles "Fire Water Burn" and "The Bad Touch". Formed in 1992, Bloodhound Gang has sold more than 6 million albums.

They are best known for their hit singles "Fire Water Burn", "The Bad Touch", "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo", "Along Comes Mary", "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss" and "The Ballad of Chasey Lain".

The Bloodhound Gang began as a small alternative band called Bang Chamber 8. It comprised Jimmy Pop and Daddy Long Legs, both graduates of Perkiomen Valley High School. They released an eponymous tape before changing their name to the Bloodhound Gang, a reference to "The Bloodhound Gang", a segment on the 1980s PBS kids' show 3-2-1 Contact that featured three young detectives solving mysteries and fighting crime.

The Bad Touch lyrics

 Ha-ha, well now, we call this the act of mating

 But there are several other very important differences

 Between human beings and animals that you should know about

I'd appreciate your input

Sweat baby, sweat baby

 Sex is a Texas drought

 Me and you do the kind of stuff

 That only Prince would sing about

 So put your hands down my pants

 And I bet you'll feel nuts

 Yes I'm Siskel, yes I'm Ebert

 And you're getting two thumbs up

 You've had enough of two-hand touch

 You want it rough, you're out of bounds

 I want you smothered, want you covered

 Like my Waffle House hashbrowns

 Comin' quicker than FedEx

 Never reach an apex

 Just like coca-cola stock

 You are inclined to make me rise an hour early

 Just like daylight savings time

Do it now

You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals

 So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

 Do it again now

 You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals

 So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

 Gettin' horny now

Love, the kind you clean up

 With a mop and bucket

 Like the lost catacombs of Egypt

 Only God knows where we stuck it

 Hieroglyphics? Let me be pacific

 I wanna be down in your South Seas

 But I got this notion

 That the motion of your ocean means

 "Small Craft Advisory"

 So if I capsize on your thighs

 High tide B-5 you sunk my battleship

 Please turn me on

 I'm Mr. Coffee

 With an automatic drip

 So show me yours, I'll show you mine

 "Tool Time"

 You'll Lovett just like Lyle

 And then we'll do it doggy style

 So we can both watch "X-Files"

Do it now

You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals

 So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

 Do it again now

 You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals

 So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

 Gettin' horny now

You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals

 So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

 Do it again now

 You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals

 So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

 Do it now

 You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals

 So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

 Do it again now

 You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals

 So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

 Gettin' horny now

Music video

The song's video, shot during the summer of 1999, features the band dressed in "MonkeyRat" costumes with oversized ears, in various locations in Paris (including the Place de l'Estrapade, Avenue de Saxe, and Champ de Mars), and the Eiffel Tower is visible in many shots. During the video, the band uses blowguns to shoot tranquilizer darts into the buttocks of four passing young women dressed in black with short skirts and stockings, then carrying them away. They then use a fishing rod to dangle a croissant in front of a group of French chefs, enticing them to follow. The band members dance around for a few seconds and then lure three chefs into following them. The band members swallow several mealworms, before finding two stereotypically effeminate gay men in a café, who are then beaten over the head with baguettes and knocked unconscious. A dwarf mime artist (played by Jordan Prentice) is captured in a net and then thrown into a cage with the four women, three chefs and the gay couple in a clear parody of animal collectors capturing frightened specimens. The band leap around the cage taunting their captives. As the song draws to an end, the prisoners are released and all dance together in formation in the street. The mime artist escapes and is run over by a speeding Renault 5 car driven by Lüpüs Thünder.

The uncensored version of the video shows the band playing with and eating a brown semi-liquid food, with the implication that it is feces, and a beginning which features them feigning sex in a doggystyle position rather than dancing as in the clean version. The violent capture of the gay couple is also missing from some versions.

The video reached No. 11 on MuchMusic's 50 Most Controversial Videos for references to zoophilia and sexual lyrics, as well as insulting French people, homosexuals and chefs.