There’s more than that. I think there are other hints like, “You tacky thing, you put them on,” and the repeated tag of “Rebel, rebel, how could they know?” I always kind of assumed this song was about a tranny.
“The Lapdance is Always Better When the Strippper is Crying”? It includes the memorable line, “It’s hard to hide a hard-on when you’re dressed like Minnie Pearl.”
Dio, I interpreted those lines differently (e.g., “how could they know” how much the singer loves the tramp), but that makes a lot of sense. I guess a lot of Bowie’s early songs were at least arguably about cross-dressers (shocker!).
What Dio said.
The Beatles “Ob-la-Di Ob-la-da,” final verse: “Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face and in the evening she’s a singer in the band.”
“Have You Seen Jackie?” by The Dukes of Stratosphear
Well, in that case, just about every Orgy and Poison song gets in.
Oh, yeah, naturally cross-dressing is brought up in a couple of songs from The Rocky Horror [Picture] Show: “Sweet Transvestite” and “Don’t Dream It.”
There’s a song called “Bruce”, by John Wallowitch, one of those uber-sophisticated East Coast types. It pretends to be funny,
but it’s really just vicious.
“and who were those awful old trolls?
They looked like a bus-and-truck Cage aux Folles”
“Don’t emulate Nancy, or Jacquie,
You’re acting just as I feared.
…
My heart has an ache, Bruce,
For haute couture’s sake, Bruce,
Shave off your beard!”
Roddy
Androgynous-- The Replacements
That’s a screw-up they decided to leave in after having done way too many takes of the song. I guess it still counts, though.
Mrs Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter.
On Todd Rundgren’s classic A Wizard/A True Star - You Don’t Have To Camp Around:
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Save the satin undies, don’t pluck out your eyebrows*
He had lots of fun with the song, and how he dressed at the time, in his recent tour of the album.
Jesse Jane by Alice Cooper.
Lola is ambigous?
I Wanna Get In Your Pants by The Cramps. Lux sings about wanting to get into a girl’s pants…literally.
Yes, quite artfully and intentionally so. The fact that it was “inspired” by a specific incident doesn’t have any bearing on that. The purpose of art is to improve on reality.
“Looked Like a Woman (But Dressed Like a Man)” by Cowboy Mouth
The tender, sensitive story about a man meeting a cross dressing woman in a bar and going home with her.