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- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: MOTSS-Oriented Music, Part II
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.224240.5465@netcom.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:42:40 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.060407.10785@fuug.fi> <C1FGLt.1pA@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>
- Organization: Castle Anthrax
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- In article <C1FGLt.1pA@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> kfj@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Kirk Johanning) writes:
- >In <1993Jan25.060407.10785@fuug.fi> an6245@anon.penet.fi (Nobody in particular...) writes:
- >
- >>Specifically, what I'm looking for are songs which contain lyrics that are
- >>obviously MOTSS-oriented. Songs by artists who are rumored to be gay,
- >>especially if that rumor is only in the "homosexual community" (I use
- >>that phrase because I don't know of any other), are not really what
- >>I'm looking for.
- >
- >>The examples I posted earlier ("Hideaway" and "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme") are
- >>good examples.
- >
- >I do not think that "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" is really that good of an
- >example as it is really a remake of a song by ABBA, where the singers
- >in the group where women. Unless you think that a song, originally
- >from a woman's point of view, remade and sung by a male, makes it
- >MOTSS-oriented.
-
- Good enough for me! They could always have changed the pronouns, if
- they'd wanted.
-
- In the same vein: Blondie did a cover of Buddy Holley's "I'm gonna
- love you too" on Parallel Lines. They didn't change any of the lyrics.
- Now, the song doesn't clearly specify the sex of the song's subject,
- but it does have the line:
-
- "After all, another fellow took you, but I still can't overlook you."
-
- Given that Blondie's lead singer was a woman, this implies that the
- song is being sung to a bisexual man. (When Buddy Holley sang it,
- there was no such implication.)
- --
- Andrew Solovay
-
- "Wait a minute! You guys are NINJAS!"
- ---The Tick
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