# Why isn't Snoop Dogg's "Sensual Seduction" number one? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2008, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161 "2008-03-05T09:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/21 "2008-03-05T19:22:45Z")
I want back all of the tens seconds I wasted listening to it. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/22 "2008-03-05T19:25:15Z")
The song is awful. The vocal effect, I believe, is a vocoder trick, but is essentially the same one made notorious on Cher’s “Believe,” and here’s how it was done: > [@](#): > > Cher’s ‘Believe’ (Dec 1998) was the first commercial recording to feature the audible side-effects of Antares Auto-tune software used as a deliberate creative effect. The (now) highly recognisable tonal mangling occurs when the pitch correction speed is set too fast for the audio that it is processing and it became one of the most over-used production effects of the following years. Cite: [http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb99/articles/tracks661.htm](http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb99/articles/tracks661.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/23 "2008-03-05T19:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=Cat Fight] She’s got a ‘new’ album coming out in the US this spring (‘new’ because it’s all over Europe). Not a fan of her stuff from the '90s, I was pretty skeptical, but it’s actually got some great stuff on it. definitely worth a look, though it may only be big with electro-pop hipsters, gay clubbers and the like. [More](http://youtube.com/watch?v=_PDNRTCuPyQ&feature=related) [stuff](http://youtube.com/watch?v=3vfLvZCdT9g) (and, as a special bonus, her live version of Prince’s [Jack U Off](http://youtube.com/watch?v=zOwGZhJ7i4c&feature=related)). [/QUOTE] So that album is actually getting a release in North America? I don’t understand why it took so long. Good thing for her so much of it is so good that her 2005 songs will sound ten times fresher than most of the hit pop songs being released here this year. I love “With Every Heartbeat” so hard. I really enjoy Snoop’s new one too. I appreciate artists that release songs that groove and make you feel good. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/24 "2008-03-05T22:20:00Z")
I’ve been meaning to start a thread here for weeks on how much that song sucks. It sounds like something Eddie Murphy or Dave Chapelle would make as a parody of an 80s R&B song. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/25 "2008-03-05T23:30:31Z")
[QUOTE=si\_blakely] Just don’t blame me when you swallow your headset 😉 Si [/QUOTE] [Here’s](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/talkbox/) what I did. Nothing quite small enough to swallow… ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/26 "2008-03-05T23:48:17Z")
I listen to a lot of rap music. Old Skool, underground, east coast, west coast, hip pop, dirty south, gangsta, turntablism, alternative… all of it. I consider myself a minor expert in the field of music, rap in particular. And my informed opinion is that this song does in fact suck donkey dick. Try Lupe Fiasco instead. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/27 "2008-03-06T03:09:18Z")
Dear lord that’s bad. I kept waiting for something that would make me think it should even be considered for a top hit, and well, I just kept waiting. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/28 "2008-03-06T04:31:21Z")
[QUOTE=Dilton Doiley,Philosopher King] [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensual_Seduction) says it maxed out at #7 in the US. Why isn’t this song #1? [/QUOTE] My radical guess would be that six songs had more sales and/or airplay. (Also, I have heard from a reliable source, ie the other posters in the thread, that the song sucked donkey dick) ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/29 "2008-03-06T04:41:31Z")
Since this thread is here - I don’t listen to very much rap, and have never like Snoop Dogg. But I was riding in my brother’s car a couple of weeks ago, and found myself really liking a song that I was startled to discover was his, and apparently a fairly recent one. It sounded more like a electronica/pop mix then a rap song. And it was NOT “Sensual Seduction”. Does anyone have any idea what is was? ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/30 "2008-03-06T04:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=Flander] “187 with a (donkey) dick in yo mouth, fool!” [/QUOTE] Heh. The only Snoop song I ever liked. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/31 "2008-03-06T04:48:37Z")
Thats a horrible horrible song and i say that as a huge Snoop fan. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/32 "2008-03-06T05:09:35Z")
I’m pretty sure that ‘beat’ is program #28 on my Casio keyboard. What a horrible song. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/33 "2008-03-06T05:18:39Z")
Snoop still puts out some good songs every now and then, but this ain’t one of them. ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161/34 "2008-03-06T05:21:55Z")
Because “number one” is usually reserved for good songs. Not always, but this drudge didn’t deserve to break the top 100. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-snoop-doggs-sensual-seduction-number-one/440161.md?page=1)