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Toronto-based musician/producer Hawksley Workman, who plays tomorrow night at Mount Royal College's Liberty Lounge, doesn't see it that way.
In fact, on his latest release (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves -- a brilliant disc that pushes him to the fore of Canadian songwriters -- Workman sat down with the express purpose of writing something with a wider appeal.
The results are the two glamtastic, T. Rexerrific opening tracks Striptease and Jealous of Your Cigarette.
"I think that I was absorbed by the challenge of making a song that would sound like a hit song," he says.
"I think that artists tend to frown on those notions, but I must admit that I am enamored by the challenge of making a song that is singable and exciting and fun and powerful, and not shying away from that."
There is nothing at all shy about Wolves, especially the clever lyrical content which is incredibly joyous and flamboyantly sexual in its look at human youth and beauty.
"I wanted to make a record that celebrated the body a bit -- the sex and the goo and everything that I had been afraid of my whole life," Hawksley agrees.
"Only very recently I thought, 'Well if I keep being afraid of sex and the way I look and bodies and feeling like a pervert all the time, I'm going to jump off a bridge.'
"So why not talk out loud about it in the most brash way available?"