You know that the drawing actually exists, right?
“Freakin’ at the Freakers Ball” by Doctor Hook and the Medicine Show.
Most of the lyrics refer to hetero activity, but there are a couple of lines that explicitly refer to gays, and the general implication is that anything goes.
More pansexual, I’d say. Crossing from one gender identification to another.
Chronos The Once and Future Moderator
You know that the drawing actually exists, right?
You know that song is about an LSD trip, right?
“I Got it From Agnes” (by Tom Lehrer)
“Giles got it from Daphne
She got it from Joan
Who picked it up in County Cork, a-kissin’ the Blarney Stone
Pierre gave it to Sheila, who must have brought it there
He got it from Franvois and Jacques, aha! —
Lucky Pierre!”
Sorry, I changed my post before you responded; it sounded too snotty, even for me.
You say you know what bisexual and pansexual mean and then you post a song that has zero to do with either.
I just read the lyrics and he’s making fun of a transgender woman. What does that have to do with being either bisexual or pansexual?
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"Eructation’s my game.” (urp)
Sorry, I changed my post before you responded; it sounded too snotty, even for me.
I’m not here to judge you.
Once again, trans is not bi or poly.
I’m understandably a bit sensitive about misinformation circulating about trans people. FYI, gender identity and sexual orientation vary independently of each other. In other words, they have nothing to do with each other and please don’t confuse them.
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You say you know what bisexual and pansexual mean and then you post a song that has zero to do with either.
I just read the lyrics and he’s making fun of a transgender woman. What does that have to do with being either bisexual or pansexual?
“Pansexual” has a longer and squirrelier etymology than the way Miley Cyrus uses the term. I first encountered it in a comic that Vaughan Bodé wrote and drew (circa 1975) to describe his own gender fluidity, a concept Ray Stevens tried (with limited success) to address. I added this song because (A) not a lot of songs in public release deal with the topic at all, much less in a way you would approve of, and (B) the topic as stated didn’t specify songs that dealt with it with great sensitivity.
It’s my impression that Ray Davies wrote “Lola” to prank his road manager, not for anything higher-minded than that, but its repeated inclusion in this thread seems to evade your indignation. But feel free to single me out for your opprobrium.
I thought the same thing when I first heard the song. It lost something when I learned the truth but I still like it.
Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck Babe” is about a woman who left her for a man. That’s a very popular song.
A not-popular song is “Mary Jo” by Belle & Sebastian.
Life is never dull in your dreams
A sorry tale of action and the men you left for
Women, and the men you left for
Intrigue, and the men you left for dead
The men you left for dead
Also, please stop posting songs about cross dressers and trans people. @Johanna is right, that has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
Ray Davies doesn’t say that. (gift link)
The song probably was inspired by Robert Wace, but I don’t know of any evidence that it was meant to prank or demean him in any way. Or any of the transvestites they had met while clubbing.
Thank you, ZipperJJ. In that spirit, I’ve started another thread, “Songs for trans people”
John Forster had a song about driving around Massachusetts called Entering Marion where the narrator, erm, engages with both the title character/village as well as others, including, notably for this category, Lawrence.
Speaking of which, perhaps Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” would count.
Only in 3’s by The Breeders:
Joan Jett, ACDC:
