Results for “gender nonconformity”

Songs

The Replacements

A plainspoken piano ballad from a band better known for noise, this song sketches two gender-nonconforming characters and treats…

gender nonconformity tolerance vs. prejudice time and generational change

Sonic Youth

Kim Gordon plays a seductive, sardonic call-and-response with a fetishized male icon, using come-ons and spoken interruptions to…

fetishization of Black masculinity gender and power celebrity worship

The Kinks

A naive young man recounts his disorienting, thrilling encounter with Lola, a nightclub companion whose gender identity…

gender fluidity and identity sexual awakening innocence versus experience

The Temptations

A mid-80s Temptations single that pitches courtly-gentleman romance as a self-help pitch, with the narrator cataloguing small…

traditional courtship gender roles nostalgia for inherited values

Kate Bush

A song about two lovers who keep wounding each other without meaning to, and the narrator's fantasy of a supernatural fix: a…

empathy as an impossible exchange the violence hidden inside love gendered misunderstanding

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin's 1967 reworking of Otis Redding's song turns a man's plea for domestic deference into a woman's non-negotiable…

demanding respect sexual and economic bargaining power gender and domestic power

Bert Jansch

This is a traditional Appalachian song (with roots in older British/American folk balladry) about a woman driven out of a…

exile and social rejection itinerancy gendered outsider status

Mott the Hoople

A glam-rock anthem that assembles a cast of disaffected, gender-bending teenagers and hands them a vague, urgent 'news' to…

generational rupture glam identity and androgyny disaffection with 60s idealism