8 thoughts on “Songs that might have a Transgender Subtext”

  1. “Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year…” that song by the Killers. I am blanking on the title.
    Polly

  2. “(Wo)Man” by me.
    Also, anything by David Bowie.
    The Negative Creep lyrics are Daddy’s little girl ain’t a girl no more.
    “Venus As a Boy” by Bjork.
    Also, anything by the Future Sluts.

  3. the killers song is called “somebody told me.”
    < beat >
    what? i’m down with the hip popular culture, fo’ shizzle.
    < beat >
    you kids get off my lawn.

  4. not really a subtext when it’s so far in the foreground but:

    almost any velvet underground song that has a girl’s name in the title
    (“candy says I’ve come to hate my body”)

    almost any antony and the johnsons song
    (“someday I’ll grow up and be a beautiful woman but for today I am a boy”) (also does a cover of “candy says” that candy darling liked better than the origional)

    union square by tom waits (“the guy dress is a beauty, go all the way, I swear you never can tell”)

    91angels/dlb

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