Mixtape Theme: Love Viewed from an Immature Sexual Perspective

 Cole Hall

Dr. Jaleesa Harris

ENGL 2016

1 December 2025

Mixtape Theme: Love Viewed from an Immature Sexual Perspective

Introduction

This mixtape has to do with historical beef on whether sexuality should’ve been included in black art. I believe it shouldn’t have as sexuality ruined true images of love. This mixtape explores the themes of immature love, which is based on Janie’s perspective in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie was the teenage girl protagonist that went through an orgasm. She believed that the orgasm was how love was supposed to work. She was not experiencing true love as she was just experiencing a sexual arousal without any romantic feeling. However, she was not the only one to fall through this unfortunate misunderstanding. In music, it is common for artists to show a sexual viewing of love. Each track I will provide will show some similarity to what Janie experienced as an adolescent.

 

Track List and Contributions

1.”My Wife, My Bitch, My Girl” by Tech N9ne

·      Tech N9ne described a wife figure in a sexually demeaning way. He mentioned how his dad told him to control the girl. He also described her sexual organs such as her anus and butt. A wife does not mean a free body used for admiring; it means a woman that someone loves, respects, and trusts enough to spend their life with. As a teenager, Janie did not get that either.

2.”Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye

·      Contribution: Marvin Gaye confessed his feelings of wanting to get sexual with someone he loved. One thing he mentioned was “My whole body makes that feelin’ of love.” He described a feeling of love as something his body felt. This is like what Janie experienced as she felt a feeling of love with her body when experiencing an orgasm.

3.”Doja Cat Please Marry Me” by London Yellow

·      Contribution: The artist wanted to marry Doja Cat. However, London Yellow provided a mostly sexual explanation on why the artist wanted to marry her. He had described her booty and his desire to eat her ass. This is a perverted view towards Doja Cat and marriage in general. While Janie was not perverted, she did hold that same sexual value to marriage.

4.”Hotter Than Hell” by Dua Lipa

·      Contribution: Dua Lipa wrote this song in response to a breakup. She attempted to win back a guy with her seduction. This portrayed her sexual view of love. This was similar to what Janie experienced as her desire for Johnny Taylor was sexual. Both people saw sex as a way to win someone over.

5.”Live While We’re Young” by One Direction

·      Contribution: Artist mentioned “let’s pretend it’s love” in a sexual manner of love. That could be proved as shortly before the artist’s other quote, the artist said “Tonight, let’s get some.” “Some” referred to sex in the artist’s context. The artist also confused love with the sexual desire they had experienced as a young person. This was very similar to Janie’s mistake.

6.“True Love” by Cane Hill

·      Cane Hill labeled a song True Love, which was supposed to mean a happy marriage, as a sexual song. Multiple times throughout the song, the artist requested to be gagged, which is considered BDSM. Janie had also seen true love as sexual satisfaction.

7.”Starving” by Hailee Steinfeld

·      Contribution: She basically admitted her sexual feelings for someone after getting to know them well enough. “By the way, right away, you do things to my body.” The lyrics mentioned prove that she was feeling a sexual feeling of love. This was a similar feeling to what Janie felt as Janie’s love for Jonathan Taylor was sexual and in no sense a mature kind of love.

8.”Nice and Slow” by Usher

·      Contribution: Usher referred to an invitation of an act of deliberate intimacy as love. Part of his lyrics was “Anticipating good love”, when in reality he was anticipating good sex. That was the exact feeling that Janie had felt when seeing Jonathan Taylor.

9.”Wifin’ You” by Montana of 300

·      Contribution: The singer sounded like he loved someone. The first line is “I cut off my bitches, only thing on my mind is you.” He even referred to this woman as his wife and that he would love her for life. However, his reasoning was extremely sexually explicit. He mentioned wanting to give her “pipe”, fuck her while cooking, and feel on her butt while she did her makeup. Janie saw Jonathan as that guy she saw as the one. However, her misunderstanding of love made her believe her sexual attraction was the meaning for her love. Montana of 300 showed his love in a remarkably similar way.

10.”BBL” by Juicy J x Pi’erre Bourne

·      Contribution: A singer asked another singer why they were wifing a woman. The other singer responded with “That ass”. When you wife a woman, you are supposed to feel an emotional connection built on trust and respect, not just some sexual desire. This is something Janie did not experience until later as she learned about true love through her marriages.

11.”Precious Possession” by Anna Wise

·      Contribution: Anna was hopeless and wanted a boyfriend to support her. However, the lyrics get intimate as she requested the guy to come down on her and put hands on her body. Her intimate view of a boyfriend is similar to what Janie had experienced as a teenager. Both confused sexual intimacy for true love.

12.”Turn Me On” by David Guetta

·      Contribution: David mentioned how he needed a woman’s love. Then he mentioned how his body needed a hero, which could’ve been fixed by turning him on. This showed his sexual view of love as love was not supposed to be proven by turning someone on. Love is supposed to be proven by ensuring trust and respect. Both David Guetta and Janie had missed that idea.

13.”I’m Gonna Miss Her Parody” by Hillbilly Jayy

·  Contribution: The artist described why he made a “crazy woman” his wife. He said she had nice tits and a big butt. This was another example of someone’s demeaning view of love as a liking for another person’s body. Janie also “loved” Jonathan for sexual reasons, AKA his body.

 

As we have analyzed each track’s own sexual version of love and how it connected to Janie, we can now compare different themes we have seen throughout these tracks.

 

Organization

The mixtape’s emphasis on sexual viewpoints of love showed how Janie was not alone in mistaking love for something else. Turns out, many people in music have also portrayed that misunderstanding in the romance world. Artists have showed their sexual thought of love in quite a few separate ways. For example, some were straight up about how they only loved someone for sexual reasons. Examples of these songs include London Yellow’s “Please Marry Me”, Montana of 300’s “Wifin’ You”, Juicy J and Pi’erre Bourne’s “BBL”, Tech N9ne’s “My Wife, My Bitch, My Girl”, Cane Hill’s “True Love”, and Hillbilly Jay’s “I’m Gonna Miss Her Parody”. These artists showed a pretty demeaning view of what they saw in a lover. Janie also had a sexual desire for love, but she was not demeaning like these artists. Other artists had innocently mistaken love as something sexual. Songs like David Guetta’s “Turn Me On”, Usher’s “Nice and Slow”, Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”, Anna Wise’s “Precious Possession”, Hailee Steinfeld’s “Starving”, and Dua Lipa’s “Hotter Than Hell” could fall into that category. These artists saw the sexual value of love but were not so open and demeaning about it. This more aligned with what Janie felt. The remaining song, ”Live While We’re Young” by One Direction, could fall into its own category. The artist admitted that young love was like how he described. Janie didn’t know the difference between young love and true love. Overall, these songs could all align into one major topic; the immature version of love that Janie fell victim to. This should also be more than enough reasoning on why I believe sexuality should not have been included.