Rated XXX

"If you can't fuck to it, it ain't music," says Eric Chavez, otherwise known to his dozens of fans as XXX. "I thought of that name, XXX, I made it up! Obviously, I want to shock my fans and right-wing America. You know my upcoming album "XXX" has already been BANNED in China and France! I mean they just can't handle me, cha know?"

Chavez, or XXX, 21, was born in 1989. "I'm very young, and quite innocent to tell the truth, but that doesn't mean I can't CHALLANGE what the world has to think about SEX." And he has. His first singles have blown up on the charts in New Zealand and Hawaii. Now about to make his first show, "SEXXX in the City," which will give the public a fly-on-the-wall-view of XXX and his life. "This show will be full of DRAMA. Mark my words people, my life is CRAZY. Everyday is a new day and I just can't help but get myself into drama."

When asked to describe his sound, XXX sits back and thinks for a minute, playing his fingertips on his forehead. "Look, my music is new, it's fresh. It's very edgy and different and very, very sexy. It's dark, but at the same time very good, I mean many people call it deep, and I know that's true. I am very deep."

His sound is said by Time Magazine and Vogue to soon change the world of music, but even XXX has his icons he looks up to. "I have so many influences, I mean obviously Madonna is a big one, since she invented sex, and Sade, because I love sexual sounds, and Prince, because he opened the door for a man to be sexual. Him and Marvin Gaye.And Daddy Yankee, because his music drips with sex. I think you can see how good my influences are in my music, because it's well, amazing."

On the other hand, XXX isn't shy about who hasn't influenced him. "Katy Perry to me is the musical equivalent of going soft, it's just shit music. Her and Akon, and don't forget Usher, Kanye West, Taylor Swift. You can't fuck to their music. I mean shit. My music will change sex, their music will decline it."

Aside from artists, XXX says he gets his artistic needs fullfilled in other ways. "I get a lot of my influences from my ass. It's just so firm and round. I'm very nalgon and everyone knows it, everyone. Sometimes I like to play with my ass and then write songs with the very hand that was in my hole. I've written some of my best songs like that! "SEXXX" and "Wet Dream" were written AS I was playing with my ass. The very same moment!"

Now, his ass and himself, a sex symbol, XXX is seeing the pressures of being a star. "As soon as I started putting my songs out on the radio, all the Latino hunks came out wanting to be with me. I mean Daddy Yankee, Oscar De La Hoya, Jaime Camil, Jerry Rivera, and tons more. It was sad seeing Enrique Iglesias cry over me, but I told him to dump that tennis player for me. But the money, you know?"

Chavez, a Mexican-American, speaks on his heritage with pride. "I'm very proud of being Latino, of being Mexican. All the Mexicans love me. I will do a Spanish version of my debut album. Only I think I will call it "Nalgas" to push the sexual boundries."

XXX will push those boundaries on his album, tackling such taboo subjects as s&m."No one has ever written about s&m before, and I wanted to bring this underground sexuality to the mainstream, I wanted to shock everyone and make people see how avant garde that I am. Rolling Stone called it an 'emotional tapestry'."

Already donating his time to teaching the world about sex and lust, XXX has made his Hollywood friends through various charities. "My best friends in the business are now Victoria Beckham, Madonna, and Oscar De La Hoya. I just went to lunch with La Toya Jackson and Janet Jackson the other day. Both were so nice and Janet kept telling me how she knew all along that La Toya was the one with the talent."

It hasn't all been fun and fetishes for XXX since he got signed, record execs have given him some issues. "I wanted to show my ass on the cover. In a leather g-string or jock strap of course! With my body against the wall, one arm up. It was so sexual that the HOMOPHOBES at Warner Bros. could not handle it! That sexual photo will be on the back cover now, but the front is just as erotic: it's my face in an s&m mask. I just want the world to know that sex exists, and that gay Mexican males are just as sexual as the rest of the world!"