I was reading Nick Catucci’s Village Voice review of Nelly Furtado’s Loose today and I had to laugh. “Pop music is a lot like Halloween,” he writes. “It gives women an excuse to pretend they're sluts.

We want a lady in the street, But a freak in the bed. In this haunting verse, the contemporary American poet Ludacris alludes to a basic dilemma that besets many intimate relationships: the demands of ...