Results for “masculine pride”

Songs

Free

This is a bare-bones jealousy anthem built around a menacing catchphrase — a working man warning off a rival who's been sniffing…

jealousy and possessiveness masculine pride working-class self-assurance

The Beach Boys

"409" is an early Beach Boys car song that treats a Chevrolet muscle car like a lover and a racehorse at once, celebrating…

car culture youthful aspiration/consumerism masculinity and status

Public Enemy

A protest anthem built as a dance record: Chuck D argues that political consciousness and Black pride are things you build in…

Black pride and self-definition institutional racism who gets to be a national hero

Maxwell

Maxwell's cover of Kate Bush's 'This Woman's Work' turns a song about a man's helplessness during childbirth into a raw,…

helplessness impending loss regret

Thin Lizzy

This is Thin Lizzy's suite-like tribute to Irish identity, stitching together folk balladry, mythic invocation, and a rapid-fire…

Irish cultural inheritance myth and storytelling exile and longing for home

Bruce Springsteen

A minimal, hushed rock song built around a single sustained image of desire as physical injury. Springsteen strips away the…

obsessive desire transgression/infidelity psychological torment

Bad Company

This is a lean, riff-driven blues-rock strut built almost entirely around a single confession of desire repeated until it…

desire and appetite masculine bravado transactional love

Richard Thompson

A wry, uptempo account of a breakup told from the battered-but-wisecracking side, where physical comedy stands in for emotional…

romantic aftermath toxic love masculine bravado as deflection

The Rolling Stones

A weary plea for tenderness dressed up as a refusal to keep serving as someone's workhorse. The narrator insists he's given…

exhaustion in relationships emotional labor vs desire masculinity and self-worth

Gladys Knight

A domestic monologue in which a woman catalogs the daily labor she performs for a partner who has grown cold and inattentive,…

emotional labor and domestic care the myth of female self-sufficiency withdrawal and neglect in a relationship