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- From: billy@briarpatch.uucp (Billy Green)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: MOTSS-Oriented Music, Part II
- Message-ID: <446.UUL1.1#120@briarpatch.uucp>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 01:48:42 PST
- Organization: Briarpatch Associates, San Francisco, CA
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- paul@psych.toronto.edu (Paul Hastings) writes:
- >Well, I've always kind of enjoyed Erasure's version of 'River deep,
- >mountain high', in which Andrew sings "When I was a little girl/
- >I had a rag doll/The only doll I ever owned/And now I love you just
- >like that rag doll/Only now, my love has grown".
-
- What's the difference between that and Gregory Hines singing "I'm
- Just Wild About Harry" without changing that song's gender references?
- (He did just that little thing on Saturday Night Live many years ago,
- with Eubie Blake playing piano for him.)
-
- On the other hand, though, was the country version of the Beatles' song,
- "I Feel Fine", in which the singer felt obliged to change every personal
- pronoun and every gender reference so that she couldn't be accused of being
- a lesbian: "My baby buys me things/You know he buys me diamond rings/
- You know he said so"..."I'm so glad that I'm his little girl". Why bother?
-
- Also on the subject of MOTSS-oriented music, if you look carefully, you
- might still be able to find a collection of vintage jazz recordings from
- the 1920's, 30's and 40's, entitled, "Sissy Man Blues" (and thanks again
- to Jack Hamilton for pointing this one out). It is relatively easy to
- find recordings from that period sung from the point of view of a "bull-
- dagger" or a "freakish man" or other "deviant" music (such as songs about
- recreational drugs or songs containing lots of sexual innuendo/bad puns),
- but they're usually buried in multiple-disc "THE COMPLETE <artist's name>
- <studio name> RECORDINGS (Volume 76--January 3-January 8, 1947--ten discs)"
- collections.
-
-
- Billy Green
- San Francisco CA
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- "Stick out your can!
- Here comes the garbage man!"
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