# Covers that didn't change gender **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covers-that-didnt-change-gender/750798 "2016-04-01T02:09:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covers-that-didnt-change-gender/750798/41 "2016-04-06T13:59:27Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > When Sinead O’Connor addresses _Mama_ in _Nothing Compares 2 U_, I believe she’s using the original gender as written by Prince. I always thought she is singing “all the flowers that you planted _lover_”:smack: So there’s some ignorance fought. I do notice all the rest of lyrics are sung from a woman’s point of view. Another Prince cover - Cyndi Lauper’s _When You Were Mine_. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covers-that-didnt-change-gender/750798/42 "2016-04-06T14:33:52Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > Suzi Quatro sang _I wanna be your Man_. She’s got another one, too. In the original Dave Clark Five version of Glad All Over, the lyric is: Other girls may try to take me away Fairly straightforward - I’m a guy, I might be tempted by other girls, but I’ll stay. But Suzi’s version is oddly shifted, changing both sides of the equation: Other boys may try to take you away In this case, the singer is a girl whose SO is the one tempted instead. Is she singing that her boyfriend potentially bi, or that her girlfriend potentially bi? Or is Suzi a guy (“other boys” - like I am, also a boy)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covers-that-didnt-change-gender/750798.md?page=2)