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Today I want to talk about Christopher Booth. Up until April, this man was your average adult. He has a kid, and is a small time producer (He has 22.5K followers on Instagram), filmmaker and his music is in various products.
Universal films.
Amazon Prime TV shows.
And, as the internet discovered, 1980s adult videos.
You see Booth, before entering the music industry, was in a bit of a bind decades ago. Wanting to make a name for himself, he put together various songs that would then serve as background music for various adult films back in those days.
His name emerged when someone on Reddit asked the internet what was the name of a particular song that Booth produced. Before people even figured out who the original creator of the song was, all people had to go off of was 18 seconds of the song that was being played. During those 18 seconds, there was not even a hint of sound of beds creaking, men or women moaning or anything.
It was 18 seconds of what people thought was a good song. On par to what the bands Roxette or Savage Garden would produce. That or a very catchy jingle for an ad.
Porn was the last thing on people’s minds as to the origins of this music.
Nevertheless, an emergence of fans are at Booth’s doorstep now, hoping to have him improve the sound quality of it, and make it into a full fledged single.
When my roommate told me this story last night it gave me some major Vincent Van Gogh vibes. Here was a man in general obscurity to the common person only to elevated decades later. After all, musicians only receive credit at the very end of films and TV shows and even then, they’re just names on a screen that people can’t fully relate to.
The big difference though is that Booth is still alive to enjoy the fact people do love the work he’s producing and are willing to support him right now. And now that his name’s out there, people might be paying more attention.
All in all, even though Booth’s decision to offer his talent to adult films decades ago feels dirty, I wouldn’t call it a bad…
