Lady Marmalade is a cover of a song by the girl group Labelle in 1974. Originally a soul/funk track, it was remixed into a more modern song by Missy Elliott in 2001 for the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack, with the vocals split between popular female singers Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Mya and rapper Lil' Kim. The song has always come under scrutiny for it's sexually aggressive chorus "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi c'est soir?", which translates into English as "would you like to sleep with me tonight?". This is also the song we feel is most similar to our own.
The video has a very sexually visual theme to it as it falls back on the film from which the soundtrack is from. The Moulin Rouge was well known all over the world for it's dancers and the invention of the can-can dance by the Parisian courtesans. Because of this the costumes are very revealing and are more often than not just considered lingerie. This is reflective of the lyrics as they are singing about a prostitute picking up a customer for the night, especially when P!nk sings the line
"He sat in her boudoir while she freshened up
Boy drank all that magnolia wine"
she is seen sitting at a make up table, as is Aguilera in a cutaway, before moving to the bed seen in the background for the following line
"On her black satin sheets is where he started to freak, yeah"
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