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The Cover Changes the Gender
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Music may be a universal language, but it's nigh impossible to find a song with lyrics that apply to everyone. Sex is quite possibly the most common barrier. Many songs (particularly ones about love or sex), are unambiguously addressed to a woman or a man, or specifically sung from a male or female perspective. While it's not uncommon for musicians to perform songs "in-character" rather than as themselves, some people can't accept an artist singing from the viewpoint of a different gender or sexual orientation than their own. So, when covering a song that was originally sung by a member of the opposite sex, what's a singer to do? Change the lyrics, of course! Most of the time this will entail no more than switching a couple of pronouns (a man would sing "and you're having my baby" while the woman might sing it "and I'm having my baby" or change it to "and I'm having our baby") or changing "boy" to "girl" (or vice versa) but in some cases it can require a much more extensive rewrite. Another common way of doing this is giving the song a Perspective Flip - e.g. "then he kissed me" becomes "then I kissed her." This can work well in many cases, while sometimes it can seem forced and awkward, sometimes becoming more of a distraction than it would've been if the artist had simply used the original lyrics. It can also come across as Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?, especially if the original version is particularly well known. For obvious reasons, the trope is almost always averted by openly gay artists — and frequently averted by still-closeted ones as well. Not to mention gay artists putting a Gender Flip on the object of a song that is traditionally sung by their gender, in order to accommodate their sexuality. It should be noted that, while changing the style of a song is allowed by ASCAP rules, changing any lyrics in a recorded cover requires obtaining permission from the song's owner. Artists have been sued for using this trope without doing so. See also The Cover Changes the Meaning, Gender Flip, and Perspective Flip. Double Standard may or may not be involved. |
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Information Society's cover of ABBA's "Lay All Your Love on Me" flips the perspective so "Every woman you see is a potential threat", but the cover by Erasure, whose singer is gay, leaves the lyric unchanged. | |
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's version of "Whole Again"note co-written for Atomic Kitten by OMD members Andy McCluskey and Stewart Kershaw, as well as Bill Padley and Jem Godfrey goes gender neutral with "and if you see me with another one" instead of man. | |
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KT Tunstall's cover of The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" has her singing "Let me show you girl/that I know wrong from right" to the apparent delight of many female fans, especially following her Eye to the Telescope album on which she's wearing a pair of rainbow suspenders/braces and sings endlessly about loving women. | |
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It probably goes without saying that Pansy Division averted this in their version of "Son of a Preacher Man," since that was the whole point of them covering the song in the first place. Cam Clarke's and Champ 'N' Reefer's covers also don't change the lyrics. Tom Goss also did a cover like that (only with the minor change to leave out the word "cousin"). It starts with a scene with a preacher from a Christian church giving an outright homophobic preachment. The whole cover has a much more dramatic undertone. |
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"If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof was gender-flipped into "Rich Girl" by reggae duo Louchie Lou & Michie One, then their version was in turn covered by Gwen Stefani. | |
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This is also the case on the Blind Guardian cover. This is made somewhat weirder in the music video, in which the band's singer is dressed in drag. Of course, according to the video the (not-so-desired) "dream" is apparently a bunch of Monster Clowns. | |
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Phyllis Dillon's cover of "Love The One You're With" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young changes the the line There's a girl, right next to you/And she's just waiting for something to do to Well there's a boy sittin' right next to you/And he's just waiting for something to do. | |
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The Vengaboys, who despite their name have a female lead singer, gender-flipped the Walkers' "Sha-La-La-La-La". | |
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A variation: "The Impresario", the Overclocked Remix version of the opera sequence from Final Fantasy VI, uses a male vocalist, and therefore gives the aria to Draco instead of Maria. | |
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Lil Nas X 's version of "Jolene" averts this trope, in that Jolene is stealing his gay lover - but he sings it with more denial that it's already happened than desperation to keep him. | |
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Dusty Springfield's cover of "Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa". | |
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The cover of "Zero To Hero" by Jonathan Young and Savannah Stuckmeyer doesn't change the pronouns, which makes sense considering the subject matter is Hercules. What is hilarious is all the lines where the Muses are Distracted by the Sexy are sung in Young's basso profundo. | |
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| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_1e7ca85f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hercules | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_1e7ca85f | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_20e8b933 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_20e8b933 | comment |
Sinéad O'Connor's cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U" does this indirectly; instances of "boy" are changed to "girl" and vice-versa, which in combination with the change in performer shifts the perspective from that of a man pining after a recently departed ex-girlfriend to a woman pining after a recently departed ex-boyfriend. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_20e8b933 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_20e8b933 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sinéad O'Connor (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_20e8b933 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_24740992 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_24740992 | comment |
Elvis Presley performing Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" turns out pretty well, since there's no specific pronouns used. But regardless of gender it does come off with some Ho Yay subtext. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_24740992 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_24740992 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Elvis Presley (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_24740992 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_261c8d3f | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_261c8d3f | comment |
In The Simpsons episode "Bart's Comet", Ned Flanders sings Doris Day's "Que Sera, Sera" without amending "When I was just a little girl...". | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_261c8d3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Simpsons | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_261c8d3f | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_26744f7f | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_26744f7f | comment |
Neil Diamond covered "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables, changing the pronouns. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_26744f7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_26744f7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Neil Diamond (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_26744f7f | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_28556894 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_28556894 | comment |
Luke Combs's cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" retains the line about working as a "check out girl" to save money to run away. According to Combs himself, he kept the lyrics as-is out of respect for Chapman and her work. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_28556894 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_28556894 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Luke Combs (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_28556894 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_2c4e0f5c | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_2c4e0f5c | comment |
From Make It Sweet!: On "FRIGHT FLIGHT!!", "FIRE FIRE!!", and Katy's parts on "POWER OFF! POWER ON!" (all songs sung by male characters in Um Jammer Lammy), nearly all of the lyrics were left intact. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_2c4e0f5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_2c4e0f5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Make It Sweet! (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_2c4e0f5c | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_2d96033a | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_2d96033a | comment |
After Ricky Martin came out in 2010, he started performing some of his earlier hits from a gay male perspective, such as changing "She's All I Ever Had" to "He's All I Ever Had" in concert. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_2d96033a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_2d96033a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ricky Martin (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_2d96033a | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_331da1ae | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_331da1ae | comment |
Walk the Moon's "Shut Up and Dance" had the singer's love interest changed from female to male so it could be sung by the female Brianna Yde for School of Rock. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_331da1ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_331da1ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Walk the Moon (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_331da1ae | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_378cdd70 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_378cdd70 | comment |
"Never Can Say Goodbye" was originally written for The Supremes before it was given to The Jackson 5, then subsequently covered by Gloria Gaynor and The Communards, among many others. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_378cdd70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_378cdd70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Supremes (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_378cdd70 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_3f97a3d2 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_3f97a3d2 | comment |
The Lemonheads version of "Different Drum" leaves the lyrics as Linda Ronstadt sang them. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_3f97a3d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_3f97a3d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Linda Ronstadt (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_3f97a3d2 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_3fe3e5e8 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_3fe3e5e8 | comment |
Though "Fast Car", originally by Tracy Chapman, doesn't really gender the narrator, they still manage it. The song changes from being a blue collar couple escaping for a better life elsewhere, to a young homosexuals dream of leaving for the big city. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_3fe3e5e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_3fe3e5e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tracy Chapman (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_3fe3e5e8 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_412c04be | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_412c04be | comment |
Air Supply's cover of Jennifer Rush's "The Power of Love" changes the first lines of the refrain from "'Cause I am your lady and you are my man" to "'Cause you are my lady and I am your man". | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_412c04be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_412c04be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Air Supply (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_412c04be | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_46518682 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_46518682 | comment |
When Buffy Saint-Marie sang the traditional American folk song "Cripple Creek", about going to see a girl, kissing her on the mouth and wrapping around her like a vine, she didn't change a word. Did I mention this was on Sesame Street? | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_46518682 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_46518682 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sesame Street | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_46518682 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_493c1694 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_493c1694 | comment |
Samantha Fish's version of Ted Taylor's "Somebody's Always Trying" changes the girlfriend people keep trying to steal into a boyfriend. Most of the changes were simply pronouns ("her" to "him"), but the line "every time I look around there's some new guy, filling up my baby's head with some kind of lie" becomes "every time I look around there's some new tease, filling up my baby's head with all kind of 'please.'" | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_493c1694 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_493c1694 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Samantha Fish (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_493c1694 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_4d088ed7 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_4d088ed7 | comment |
WASP have a cover of Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" in which Blackie switches the one gender-specific line to "your eyes, I say your eyes may look like hers," which makes it no longer rhyme with the next line. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_4d088ed7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_4d088ed7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| W.A.S.P. (Band) (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_4d088ed7 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_4e36d026 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_4e36d026 | comment |
Sunday Sharpe covered Paul Anka's "(You're) Having My Baby" as "I'm Having Your Baby". | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_4e36d026 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_4e36d026 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Paul Anka (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_4e36d026 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_50749345 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_50749345 | comment |
Most songs on Masaaki Endoh's cover series ENSON. These range from the still-working (Wing of Destiny), Eternal Blaze) to the... less so (God Knows, Genesis of Aquarion). | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_50749345 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_50749345 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Galaxy Angel | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_50749345 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_51116ff9 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_51116ff9 | comment |
Caleb Hyles has done various covers of songs sung by female characters like "Let it Go" and "Other Friends", without changing the lyrics. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_51116ff9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_51116ff9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Caleb Hyles (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_51116ff9 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_514a6627 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_514a6627 | comment |
Soft Cell's cover of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love" changes the line "all a girl could give" to "all a boy can give." | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_514a6627 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_514a6627 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Soft Cell (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_514a6627 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_539c2f75 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_539c2f75 | comment |
Fastbacks' cover of Green River's "Swallow My Pride" keeps all the female pronouns, despite lines like First I fell for her looks / Now I just want to go for the throat", and the fact that the title phrase seems to be used as an Unusual Euphemism for fellatio. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_539c2f75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_539c2f75 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fastbacks (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_539c2f75 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_53b84fcf | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_53b84fcf | comment |
The Bow Wow Wow cover of "I Want Candy" is a straight-up gender flip, but it does make the line "I like candy when it's wrapped in a sweater" sound a bit odd— as the Sexy Sweater Girl trope is Always Female. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_53b84fcf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_53b84fcf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bow Wow Wow (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_53b84fcf | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_583bcbe8 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_583bcbe8 | comment |
The film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again changes the titular instructor of ABBA's "When I Kissed the Teacher" from male to female, but does not do likewise with the singer (Donna). | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_583bcbe8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_583bcbe8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_583bcbe8 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_60ff6d80 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_60ff6d80 | comment |
Heart's cover of "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin changes some pronouns from third-person to second-person ("started telling your friends you gonna be a star") and others from first-person to second-person ("tell you no lies, make you a happy man"). | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_60ff6d80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_60ff6d80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Heart (Band) (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_60ff6d80 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6806a8b9 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6806a8b9 | comment |
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary also sang "wear" rather than "bring." | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6806a8b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6806a8b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Peter, Paul and Mary (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6806a8b9 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6ce0d19c | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6ce0d19c | comment |
In the Quantum Leap episode "Miss Deep South" Sam as a female beauty pagent contestant sings "Great Balls of Fire" with the lyric "too much love drives a woman insane" while dressed like Carmen Miranda. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6ce0d19c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6ce0d19c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quantum Leap | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6ce0d19c | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6d03ae5e | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6d03ae5e | comment |
In Darby O Gillandthe Little People, Sean Connery sings "My Pretty Irish Girl". Shortly after, Janet Munro sings the same song referring to the same Irish Girl. Right at the end, both sing the song, with Connery ending on "Girl" and Munro ending on "Boy." | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6d03ae5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6d03ae5e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Darby O'Gill and the Little People | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6d03ae5e | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6ec887a3 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6ec887a3 | comment |
Bananarama recorded a version of Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" without changing any of the lyrics. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6ec887a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6ec887a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bananarama (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6ec887a3 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6f96cb3d | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6f96cb3d | comment |
The Sucker Punch soundtrack is mostly female singers doing songs by male artists (The Beatles, The Smiths, Jefferson Airplane) - but the lyrics are unchanged (the most blantant is Search and Destroy", which is still "I'm the world's forgotten boy..."). | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6f96cb3d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6f96cb3d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sucker Punch | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_6f96cb3d | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_725a9f87 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_725a9f87 | comment |
In Damn Yankees, "A Man Doesn't Know" is naturally reprised by Meg as "A Woman Doesn't Know." | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_725a9f87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_725a9f87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Damn Yankees (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_725a9f87 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_752075f | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_752075f | comment |
Outlander's opening song is Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone" (written to fit the tune of "The Skye Boat Song") but changes it to "Sing me a song of a lass that is gone", probably because the protagonist is a woman. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_752075f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_752075f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outlander | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_752075f | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_75294bec | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_75294bec | comment |
Postmodern Jukebox usually uses female singers for their vintage covers of songs, even when it's about a man singing about a woman. The result is often the songs are now about gay women in the early 20th century. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_75294bec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_75294bec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Postmodern Jukebox (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_75294bec | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_79ea1504 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_79ea1504 | comment |
Aviators' cover of Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero" leaves the male pronouns untouched, making it a Ho Yay song, though Tyler Shaw is heterosexual (as far as we know). | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_79ea1504 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_79ea1504 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Aviators (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_79ea1504 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7a06c9da | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7a06c9da | comment |
The Chipmunk Adventure features a cover of "The Girls of Rock and Roll"; they changed every other repetition of the title to "The Boys of Rock and Roll", so the Chipmunks and Chipettes could have a battle-of-the-sexes song. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7a06c9da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7a06c9da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Chipmunk Adventure | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7a06c9da | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7d80238d | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7d80238d | comment |
In On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, "She Wasn't You" was originally Edward's song, but the show was revised to have Daisy sing it too with different lyrics as "He Wasn't You." The lyrics were rewritten again for Barbra Streisand to perform in the movie as "He Isn't You." | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7d80238d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7d80238d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Theatre) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7d80238d | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7e9d1a6c | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7e9d1a6c | comment |
The many, many male "Let It Go" covers on YouTube, which often changing "girl" to "boy" and "And it looks like I'm the queen" to "And it looks like I'm the king". | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7e9d1a6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7e9d1a6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Frozen (2013) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_7e9d1a6c | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_83c8553d | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_83c8553d | comment |
Averted in Groove Coverage's cover of Alice Cooper's "Poison". Ditto the Eurobeat version by Elisa. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_83c8553d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_83c8553d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Groove Coverage (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_83c8553d | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_84898149 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_84898149 | comment |
Amusingly averted in The The All-American Rejects cover of "Womanizer" | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_84898149 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_84898149 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The All-American Rejects (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_84898149 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_8509db53 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_8509db53 | comment |
In Easyworld's cover of Olivia Newton-John's "Hopelessly Devoted to You," singer David Ford changed nouns and pronouns accordingly. However he later sang Candi Staton's "Young Hearts Run Free" in its original form, and even Carole King's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman". At least in his Easyworld work, he had a voice that could sometimes be confused for female anyway. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_8509db53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_8509db53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grease | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_8509db53 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_87abfd63 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_87abfd63 | comment |
Similarly, Kalvin Jarvis's cover of Dua Lipa's New Rules. He mostly flips the pronouns, but switches to the perspective flip for one line: "You're only gonna wake up in his bed" becomes "She's only gonna wake up in your bed". The next line is back to a simple pronoun change, keeping the narrator's, well, position the same to preserve the wordplay. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_87abfd63 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_87abfd63 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dua Lipa (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_87abfd63 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_8e7e0721 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_8e7e0721 | comment |
Madness's cover of "Money, Money, Money" by ABBA changed "If I got me a wealthy man" to "If I were a wealthy man," among other changes. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_8e7e0721 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_8e7e0721 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Madness (Band) (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_8e7e0721 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_90ce1633 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_90ce1633 | comment |
Cimorelli's cover of Justin Bieber's Boyfriend is this. The cover mostly sounds like what a girl promises to the guy she likes, anything she can be if he was her boyfriend. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_90ce1633 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_90ce1633 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cimorelli (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_90ce1633 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_920aa2f1 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_920aa2f1 | comment |
The Masked Singer: Season 3 contestant Bear who is Sarah Palin in disguise sings Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" changing the lyrics to woman admiring the butt of a man. | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_920aa2f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_920aa2f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Masked Singer | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_920aa2f1 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_94d2196 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_94d2196 | comment |
Bonnie Raitt turned Skip James's "I'd rather be the devil than be that woman's man" into "that man's woman." She also pulled a Perspective Flip on Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Pride and Joy": I'm his sweet little baby / He's my little lover boy |
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| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_94d2196 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_94d2196 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bonnie Raitt (Music) | hasFeature |
The Cover Changes the Gender / int_94d2196 | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_9ad62b32 | type |
The Cover Changes the Gender | |
| The Cover Changes the Gender / int_9ad62b32 | comment |
Thalia's and Jessica Simpson's covers of Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" both keep the original lyrics, which are gender-neutral anyways. | |
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Parodied heavily in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, in which a male singer does a cover of "Papa, Don't Preach," in which he sings "She's keeping my baby!" while pregnant showgirls pose on stage. It's every bit as sexist and disturbing as it sounds. | |
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Bastille's cover of TLC's "No Scrubs" keeps all the male references. The only change is the removal of the rap in exchange for "Being in love with you as I am..". The singer said he didn't to change the lyrics just because he was afraid people would think he's gay. Weezer also covered the song without changing any lyrics (though they too removed the rap section). When they decided to cover the song, Rivers Cuomo was thinking about whether to use this trope when he happened upon a popular tweet saying that if you're a straight man covering a love song about a man, you should keep the original lyrics and be "gay for the next three minutes". |
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"When She Loved Me" was originally sung by Sarah McLachlan for Toy Story 2 from the point of view of the doll Jessie, which makes perfect sense in context. Michael Crawford and a few other male singers have covered it without changing the gender, which makes a whole lot more sense if you think of it as a song about lost romantic love. The funny thing is, there's still female singers covering it, like Jordan Pruitt on Disneymania 5. | |
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Sheryl Crow's cover of Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine" changes she/her to he/his ("he's got a smile that it seems to me..."). As does her cover of the Cat Stevens song "The First Cut is the Deepest". |
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Hilariously, in their cover of Fergie's "London Bridge", the line "I'm such a lady but I'm dancing like a ho" was kept intact (although Jaret replaced "Fergie-Ferg" with his own name). | |
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Averted by The Cardigans cover of Restless Heart's "The Bluest Eyes in Texas", turning a sad country song about leaving your woman into... well, the same thing, only now with lesbians! | |
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In Kirsty Mac Coll's cover of Billy Bragg's "A New England" the first verse changes "People ask when will I grow up to be a man/But all the girls I loved at school are already pushing prams" to "People ask when will I grow up to understand/Why all the girls I knew at school are already pushing prams" and "I put you on a pedestal, they put you on the pill" to "I put you on a pedestal, you put me on the pill". The line in the chorus "I'm just looking for another girl" becomes "Are you looking for another girl?" She also wrote a third verse unique to her version - these days Billy Bragg often adds her verse to his own in tribute, but doesn't change the pronouns. | |
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In the remix of Gabby Barrett's "I Hope" featuring Charlie Puth, the verse Charlie Puth sings is genderflipped so that the ex's new partner is a woman (which weakens the spite a bit: "I hope he goes broke buying you an engagement ring and then cheats" packs less punch than "I hope you go broke buying her an engagement ring and then she cheats".) | |
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They've done this with several non-Abba covers, namely The Partridge Family's "Walking in the Rain" and Ike & Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High". It's rather amusing to hear a man sing "When I was a little girl, I had a rag doll/The only doll I've ever owned"... | |
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A rather neat version, the female cover of "Kiss from a Rose" as sung by Katherine Jenkins. "There is so much a man can tell you...," becomes "There is so much someone can tell you...,". | |
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LeAnn Rimes's Lady & Gentlemen album is an entire album built around singing typically male-narrated country songs from a female perspective. | |
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"Hey There" from The Pajama Game is one example of this; the female version preserves a rhyme by substituting "like a mother" for "like a brother." | |
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On The X Factor, Danyl Johnson did this in his cover of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls, prompting a sarcastic comment concerning whether it was necessary by one of the show's judges, effectively outing him on live TV. | |
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Averted in Republica's and Moloko's covers of Tubeway Army's "Are Friends Electric?". | |
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While Jonathan Young usually changes the lyrics to be from a male perspective, he has a few interesting aversions: in "How Far I'll Go," it's still Jonathan singing it but the song is now in third person, still talking about Moana. When the rhyme scheme requires it to be first person, he slips in a "She says" Played with for laughs in his cover of "Sk8ter Boi", where he stumbles over the line "I'm just a girl" and starts wondering just why he decided to do this cover in the first place. |
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Blondie have a couple of examples of playing this straight, but have also averted it with their cover of Buddy Holly's "I'm Gonna Love You Too". Granted, the only line in the original that mentioned gender was "after all, another fella took ya", but leaving that in does change potential interpretations of the song: in the Buddy Holly version it's "another fella" as in "a man other than me", but having a woman sing that line makes it sound like both the subject of the song and the person he's currently with are men. | |
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Mamma Mia! turns "Lay All Your Love On Me", which was sung entirely from a female perspective, into a duet between Sophie and her fiancé Sky. Sky sings the first verse, altered from "Now every woman I see is a potential threat" into "Now every man that I see..." | |
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Pat Benatar: The original version of "No You Don't", as performed by Sweetnote and written by the record producers/songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, contains the lyric "Well, you think you've got my life in your hands, but I'm a man, I'm a man, and I've got my own plans, I'm a man". Benatar's cover version (from In the Heat of the Night) changes this to make it non-gender-specific: "[…] but you don't understand that I've got my own plans, my own plans". Overlapping with What Could Have Been, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" was originally written from a male point of view. When Benatar got the song, only the line "before you put another notch in your lipstick case" had to be switched and became "before I put another notch in my lipstick case". This added the interesting implication that the female singer has a history of warding off suitors and might be a bit of a heartbreaker herself. |
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All of the various "I Kissed A Guy" covers on YouTube. | |
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Twisted Sister's cover of "Leader of the Pack" reverses both the singer's identity and the relationship's outcome, having Betty die in a car crash rather than Jimmy wipe out fatally on his motorcycle. | |
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Similar to the Los Campesinos! aversion, the Future Bible Heroes cover of "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League has Claudia Gonson singing the male verse and Stephin Merritt singing the female verse (complete with the line "I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar"). And Chia Pet's version of the same song is a duet between two female vocalists, also without changing any lyrics. | |
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When *NSYNC covered Janet Jackson's "That's the way love goes" they only had to change the line "go deeper baby deeper" to "I'll go deeper" changing who is doing the penetrating because the pronouns were all first and second person. | |
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The song "Sister Moon", by Sting, quotes Creator/William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130—"My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun. . ." When Vanessa Williams covered the song, she included the quote, but changed "mistress" to "lover" and replaced "she/her" with "he/him". | |
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Mary Lambert's version of "Jessie's Girl", making it seem like a song about a lesbian developing a crush on her straight male friend's new girlfriend. No doubt intentional, as the artist is openly gay. | |
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An unusual partial example: the country music song "Don't Go Out" was written and originally recorded by the duo Foster & Lloyd from a male perspective. In 1990, Tanya Tucker covered the song as a duet with T. Graham Brown, which resulted in her verses getting gender-flipped but Brown's keeping the original male perspective. | |
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In Moulin Rouge!, "Like a Virgin," sung by Zidler to the Duke (who joins in later), explaining why Satine wasn't there for an arranged rendezvous. | |
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In Clan of Xymox's cover of "Venus", "I'm your Venus" becomes "She's my Venus". | |
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Strangely done by two Har Mar Superstar songs originally intended for other artists: he wrote "Girls Only" and "Tall Boy" with the intention of giving them to The Cheetah Girls and Britney Spears respectively. When both declined, he put out his own versions without any lyrical changes. The former is about a girls' night out and finds him singing about having "the cutest little cuticles". The latter is technically an Ode to Intoxication drinking "tall boys", as in large cans of beer, but it's also full of innuendo that could apply to wanting a literal "tall boy" ("where's my tall boy?/ to satisfy my needs/ feel like drinking/ so come on get inside of me"). | |
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("You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" has been covered by Rod Stewart as "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man" | |
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In Closer Than Ever, the main lyric of "She Loves Me Not" is sung as "He Loves Me Not" by a woman—and then by another man. | |
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Across the Universe (2007) featured a cover of The Beatles' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" sung by a woman. Only it was about being a lesbian. Cayman Ilika's cover played this trope straight, replacing "you'll let me be your man" with "you're going to be my man". |
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In The King and I, the song "Something Wonderful" is sung by Lady Thiang about her husband the King, urging Anna to be an advisor and friend to him. But operatic bass Bryn Terfel recorded the song on his Rodgers and Hammerstein album, also titled Something Wonderful. In his rendition, the song's meaning seems to change: rather than a woman explaining her love for a complicated man to another woman, it seems to depict a man explaining himself to a woman, being frank about his own flaws yet urging her to love him anyway. | |
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In Stars on 54's cover of "If You Could Read My Mind" for the film 54, "the hero would be me" becomes "the hero would be you". Averted in the 2001 cover by Aurora (UK) feat. Marcella Detroit. | |
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