Here's a list of Trannie / Cross-Dressing songs that Chris/tina and I came up with 2/98 at the Rue, with a few obviously gay-themed ditties to boot. Please send me your additions.
Jet Boy, Jet Girl-- Elton Montello
Lola-- Kinks
Girl / Boy-- Blur ("Boys who are girls who like girls who are boys who....")
(Take a Walk on the) Wild Side-- Lou Reed
Boys Keep Swinging-- Bowie
Some Jimmy Buffet Song
Obla Di Obla Da-- Beatles
Get Back-- Beatles
Polythene Pam-- Beatles (notice a pattern?)
Some Rolling Stones song
Love Stinks (Spoken part)-- J. Geils
Games Without Frontiers-- Peter Gabriel (Lottie plays with Clifford, Sasha plays with Sam or whatever...)
I kissed a Girl-- Jill Sobule. No trannies, Just gay
Homo Truck Drivin' Man-- Pajama Slave Dancers
I'm a Boy-- The Who (I'm a boy, I'm a boy, although they won't admit it.
...and if i say so, I really get it...)
Lover Boy-- Queen, not gender bending-- just gay... and Oh, how gay it is!
In my surfing Kinks sites, I inadvertantly scored a direct hit vis-a-vis our gender bending song list.
SPIN
October 1996
by James Hannaham
Boys will be girls, they say. Rock music has always kept rebellion as its central pillar, so what better way could there be to publicly show your countercultural bias than dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex? Everyone has done it, from Bowie to Cobain. And drag, as seen below, has long been a ripe subject matter for rock lyrics. Now if only someone would write the definitive "I Love Drag" song:
GROUP: The Beatles
SONG: "Polythene Pam"
YEAR: 1970
FASHION STATEMENT: Popularized synthetic fabrics 27 years before they became big.
GENDER ISSUE: A butch dyke hot enough to catch John Lennon's eye?
Imagine....
GROUP: The Kinks
SONG: "Lola"
YEAR: 1970
FASHION STATEMENT: Who needs clothes when you have attitude?
GENDER ISSUE: Legendary seductress nabs one straight boy in song and
millions of clueless frat boys in U.S.A.
GROUP: Lou Reed
SONG: "Walk on the Wild Side"
YEAR: 1973
FASHION STATEMENT: Shows the convenience of handheld self-electrolysis!
GENDER ISSUE: Goddess of Depilation: now they call it "reinventing yourself"
when guys pluck their eyebrows.
GROUP: The Smiths
SONG: "Vicar in a Tutu"
YEAR: 1986
FASHION STATEMENT: A ring and a frilly skirt -- is this The House of Style or
the House of God?
GENDER ISSUE: Jesus wore a dress, too. So what if it was ankle length?
GROUP: Aerosmith
SONG: "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)"
YEAR: 1987
FASHION STATEMENT: Queen packed heat in her crotch; possibly inspired
The Crying Game.
GENDER ISSUE: It's the rare she-male who can open her pants and open your
mind at the same time.
GROUP: R.E.M.
SONG: "Crush With Eyeliner"
YEAR: 1994
FASHION STATEMENT: Stipe loves a diva for her invented identity, not clothes
-- now we know he's straight.
GENDER ISSUE: Courtney Love thinks it's about her - if the fuchsia pump fits....
GROUP: Nancy Boy
SONG: "All That Glitters (Come Out, Come Out)"
YEAR: 1995
FASHION STATEMENT: A display too shiny to be properly described by
Donovan Leitch.
GENDER ISSUE: The age-old truism: woman in man's clothing = frumpy; man
in woman's clothing = fabulous!
GROUP: Sponge
SONG: "The Drag Queens of Memphis"
YEAR: 1996
FASHION STATEMENT: Sequined footwear
GENDER ISSUE: Elvis impersonation goes postmodern; man dresses as Elvis
dressed as woman. Details as they happen.
GROUP: Imperial Teen
SONG: "Butch"
YEAR: 1996
FASHION STATEMENT: Infernowear: a new line of extra-flammable dresses.
GENDER ISSUE: Adolescent drag princess dies tragically -- "Velveteen
Angel"?
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