Paul Janeway, the golden-throated frontman of St. Paul and the Broken Bones, wanted to be a preacher until he was 18. Instead, he's got a song on the soundtrack to Fifty Shades of Grey —which, he told Mother Jones, he hadn't heard of before he licensed "Call Me" for the movie. He assumed it was just another romantic comedy.

"When they presented the licensing opportunity, they presented it as: It's going to be a huge movie, they want to put a decent amount of the song in the movie in a nonsexual scene," he told Mother Jones' Maddie Oatman.

That's exactly what happened, but he claims he didn't know it would be a nonsexual scene—the only nonsexual scene—in the middle of a very sexual movie:

I knew it was a book, but I had no idea what it was. So I was like, sure, big movie, good exposure. I'll be in this romantic comedy. Which is what I thought it was: a romantic comedy. It's a good way to make money in the music business, you know. Then I saw a preview for it, and I was like, "Oh, shit. Oh, no. What have I done?"

I don't know if I buy that an adult American in 2014 could have entirely avoided exposure to Fifty Shades of Grey—or didn't bother to Google the movie that wanted to use his song. Come on, man. A little research goes a long way.

To his credit, though, he's able to laugh (all the way to the bank?) about it now:

To me it's kind of funny. I'm glad it's in a nonsexual scene to be honest with you, not for my sake but for my family's sake. I don't have any moral things about it. It's not like we're in the movie—it's just a song for a minute.