Just like the title says. Please don’t bring up songs that don’t specifically mention gender to make the claim that it might be about bisexuals. Thank you.
Joann Jett’s A.C.D.C is pretty specific.
"She got girls,
Girls all over the world.
She got men,
Every now and then."
Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl”.
The singer says she kissed a girl and hopes her own boyfriend won’t mind.
Two good ones so far. I wonder if there are any from male singers?
I’m not absolutely sure this fits, not least because I am having trouble parsing the lyrics, but Blur’s Boys and Girls has a chorus that goes:
Girls who want boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they’re girls who do girls like they’re boys. Always should be someone you really love.
Before that, there was Jill Sobule’s “I Kissed a Girl”, a completely different song with the same title (and subject matter, obviously. But in my opinion a better and wittier song):
Bi, by In Living Color
Case not proven (and not a recent popular song), but how about Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me A Bow-Wow?
Another number in the show is Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow-Wow. Surely Joseph Tabrar’s “pretty little song for pretty little children” doesn’t hide steamy gay passions? “Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang defines ‘bow-wow’ as ‘penis,’ so I always knew there was something sexual about it,” says Bradshaw. “Then I read in Alison Hennigan’s Lesbian Pillow Book that it was performed in the dyke cabarets of Paris at the turn of the century with the meaning, ‘I’m fond of pussy, but I’d also like to try a bow-wow.’ That’s enough to get it in the show!”
I love my little cat, I do
With soft black silky hair
It comes with me each day to school
And sits upon the chair…
…Daddy wouldn’t buy me a bow-wow! bow wow!
I’ve got a little cat
And I’m very fond of that
But I’d rather have a bow-wow
Wow, wow, wow, wow
Wiki including complete lyric.
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“Billy Brown” by Mika
“Gettin’ Bi” from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
The Sweet’s AC / DC fits the bill. Several popular songs (all the way from the early '70’s) illustrating the meaning of the term makes it all the more curious that those über-macho, womanizing Aussie lads would choose to name themselves like they did.
Don’t get any more explicit than this
“I’m the Only One” by Melissa Etheridge.
Tonight you told me that you ache for something new
And some other woman is looking like somethin’
That might be good for you
A song by a woman, about how her girlfriend is leaving her for another woman? Where’s the bi?
I heard Jill Sobule’s song long before Katy Perry’s, and yes, it’s a better song. More honest, I think. Whenever I hear Perry’s song, I think about Lindsay Ellis’ interpretation of the subtext:
“I kissed a girl, and I like it”
[Oooh, check out how edgy and transgressive I am!]
“Hope my boyfriend don’t mind”
[…but I’m not really gay or anything weird like that. Still into dudes!]
Heather by Conan Gray. The gender of “you” in the song is never mentioned, but the singer is male and wishing he was a female to get the attention of “you”
Why would you ever kiss me?
I’m not even half as pretty
You gave her your sweater, it’s just polyester
But you like her better
Wish I were Heather
Our gay men’s chorus sang this song some years back. It was a big hit.
Pete Townshend’s “Rough Boys” might be about bisexuality, or it might just be about homosexuality – it has lines about “her” and “she,” as well as lines like “Tough boys, come over here, I wanna bite and kiss you.” Pete himself has given some conflicting stories about it, as noted on Wikipedia: