Tori Amos track is interesting, but yeah, very different in tone & sensibility.
In wondering about how the form would work with the genders switched, I suppose I was thinking of TLC's "No Scrubs" and Paula Cole's "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone", songs where the modern man gets called out. Not that either of those really fits, either...
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
Um, "Wait till your boat goes down" was about a "Yachting boy" though?
Or buoy, maybe..
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link
xp Innocence by Kirsty MacColl maybe? possibly similar to This Year's Girl and Battery Brides in that the song's "narrator" has an insight denied to the subject, the latter being an oblivious dupe of society?
― soref, Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link
How about Marianne Faithfull - Why D'ya Do It? - it's an indictment of the cheating lovers though.
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
Love the Kirsty MacColl song. Never heard it before, or perhaps just never listened closely. Doesn't seem to be attempting any larger comment on the state of the world, but maybe I'm just not catching all the implications.
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link