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Hate to break it to you, Deva, but I'm pretty sure that, among her other subtle changes to the lyrics, Kirsty sang "Are you looking for another girl" in her cover of "A New England."
Not that it matters to the premise of this thread, mind.
Lyle Lovett raised some eyebrows when he sang Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" (the intro, with that undeniably masculine voice singing, "Some times it's hard to be... a woman..." is momentarily chucklesome), but since the song is written in the second person ("You'll have bad times, he'll have good times"), the gender of the singer is (arguably) a moot point: it's a character sketch, not a love song as such.
Sixpence None The Richer did a gorgeous cover of The La's "There She Goes."
The Sundays' version of the Rolling Stones song "Wild Horses" keeps the lines "Gracious lady, you know who I am / you know I can't let you just slip through my hands"--which is about the only gender-specific reference in the song.
That's the thing about love songs--the subject matter is usually neither a girl nor a boy, but love itself. |
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