Cleopatra (Cecil B. DeMille, 1934)
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch, 1938)
Midnight (Mitchell Leisen, 1939)
Last year, Tinashe put out a song called “Nasty” whose chorus (“Is somebody gonna match my freak?”) went quasi-viral on TikTok or wherever it is pieces of songs go viral.1 I have a personal soft spot for songs like “Nasty” that are both super horny and very romantic at the same time. Are we not all searching for somebody to match our freak in this crazy world, and so on.…