Songs about TGs

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by smc

There were no documented cases of AIDS in the 1970s, FYI, although the disease certainly existed. Now, let's get back to the music, because that's what this thread is about.

I know. Sorry. I just had a thought and ran with it to see where it would go and I have a tendency to try to write it down in order to remember it better. So, yes... I know that's a blush icon but everyone should take it as embarrassment. Maybe the icon of the drooping penis would be more appropriate for embarrassment.

On another note: that Garbage song, very good. Anything to watch a pretty woman nearly smooching the camera as she sings provocatively.

And to atone for my previous sin: there's a song I heard for the first time as a wee lad. I didn't understand it then but it's all too obvious now. It's in Spanish though, of the Salsa genre. More specifically it's old salsa from the 80s when salsa was still good and not the throwaway swill it is nowadays; it's what my people call "salsa gorda," literally "thick salsa." Yes, rather like the stuff you eat. The difference between salsa gorda and contemporary salsa is like wine and vinegar. It's Willie Colon's "El Gran Varon" or "The Great Man," "The Big Man." It's about a transvestite. It's the entire life story of a transvestite and it ends in, well, a rather predictable manner. Not predictable in a bad way, rather that...well, find a translation and you'll see. Somehow my father never batted an eye when the song came on and I was in the car.

[smc]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

there's a song I heard for the first time as a wee lad. I didn't understand it then but it's all too obvious now. It's in Spanish though, of the Salsa genre. More specifically it's old salsa from the 80s when salsa was still good and not the throwaway swill it is nowadays; it's what my people call "salsa gorda," literally "thick salsa." Yes, rather like the stuff you eat. The difference between salsa gorda and contemporary salsa is like wine and vinegar. It's Willie Colon's "El Gran Varon" or "The Great Man," "The Big Man." It's about a transvestite. It's the entire life story of a transvestite and it ends in, well, a rather predictable manner. Not predictable in a bad way, rather that...well, find a translation and you'll see. Somehow my father never batted an eye when the song came on and I was in the car.

Yes, I know that song. I hadn't thought of it. I'm going to listen to it when I get home, and pull out some other Willie Colon, too, to put a smile on my face.

[Enoch Root]

Androgyny by Garbage. Just listened to it. It's not really about tgirls but I imagine most of us here are fans of androgyny. And with lyrics like these:

Boys.. Boys in the girls room
Girls.. Girls in the men's room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys.. Boys in the parlour
Girls.. They're getting harder



Also: sex.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGcXEEo1HAY&NR=1

[ROYGES]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

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I was going to mention that one

[Enoch Root]

I'm always here to deflate your balloon...and kick your cat.

[racquel]

What It Feels Like For A Girl (Madonna) is cute.

Ob-la-di Ob-la-da (The Beatles) is another adorable one about a guy named Desmond who goes out at night as a female singer named Molly.

Lady Stardust (David Bowie) ... seems more like it's just about a guy wearing makeup ...

Somebody Told Me (The Killers) sounds like he's talking to a girl and saying, "Your boyfriend is secretly a transvestite, and I fucked him last year."

Dude Looks Like A Lady (Aerosmith)

Sweet Transvestite (Rocky Horror)


You can argue that the songs are mostly about transvestites and not likely full-time transsexual women.

[Enoch Root]

As regards Ob-la-di Ob-la-da, the mention of Desmond putting on the makeup at the end was a mistake on The Beatles part. But they like it and kept it. Plus, it's more fun with the gender-bending.