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Hudson Mohawke responds to surge in Cbat listening following Reddit sex playlist story
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 6 September 2022
Hudson Mohawke has been responding to the new interest his 2011 track ‘Cbat’ has been receiving thanks to a recent post on Reddit titled: ‘Girlfriend of two years told me the music that I play during sex is weird and a major turn off’.
In the post, user TylerLife writes: “When I first started having sex I researched into ways to be better as I was a little stiff and pretty much had no idea what I was doing. I read online that you can play music and match the rhythm in order to put on a better performance. I searched love making songs and started slowly creating a playlist in which I was comfortable matching the rhythm”.
His favourite track on that playlist, it seems, is ‘Cbat’ – from Hudson Mohawke’s 2011 EP ‘Satin Panthers’ – which, he insists, is “a good love making song with good rhythm”. But his girlfriend of two years has finally revealed how much she hates that track.
“I don’t understand why it has taken her two years to tell me she hates that song”, he muses. And while conceding that maybe he should have asked her how she felt about his sex playlist at some point previously, he adds: “To leave it for two years, [me] thinking our sex life is great but in her eyes [it] has just been ruined by my music, has left the whole situation feeling awkward and I’m a bit annoyed”.
He continues: “It’s fucked up the relationship [to be honest] because sex feels awkward now. The other day we were having sex with no music but I was still thrusting to the tune playing in my head. She recognised this and asked me to stop”.
Given how long TylerLife has been playing ‘Cbat’ while having sex, he also wonders what his previous girlfriends reckoned to its inclusion on his sex playlist.
“They never complained about the song so maybe it’s just [my current girlfriend]?”, he ponders. Though the internet seems pretty certain they too thought it was, at the very least, a weird musical choice for that particular moment, but they were just too polite to say so.
So there you go. The Reddit admission has sparked a flurry of videos on TikTok employing a snippet of the track because, well, of course it has. And it’s also sparked a spike in the streaming and downloading of the song.
Hudson Mohawke himself has been documenting those TikTok videos and listening spikes on his social media. But, while he’ll obviously benefit financially from all this new interest in ‘Cbat’, he also has a new album to sell called ‘Cry Sugar’.
With that in mind, his Twitter bio now reads: “‘Cry Sugar’ is better for sex”.
If you want to do some A/B testing yourself, you can listen to ‘Cbat’ here…
…and a megamix of ‘Cry Sugar’ here:
