Pet Peeve

When cover artists change the gender of the subject of a song to suit their own sexuality.

Example: the Bat for Lashes cover of "I'm on Fire" in which "hey little girl" becomes "hey little boy".

Don't worry young fool, it's not exactly going to start a big LESBIAN RUMOR if you leave the song as it is! For chrissake. It's annoying that people need to frantically organize everything so it all looks on the up & up re: social norms, and it's also frankly a little off-putting to hear a grown woman coo to a "little boy" in a song. Women don't tend to fetishize their male quarries as little boys, or didn't anyone notice? To me, it becomes a completely different animal when you swap the gender.

In fact! why don't we leave the covers to Tori. Yes, let's. Anyone who can make you shed a tear while covering a Kylie Minogue dance classic pretty much has it handled.

more old tori footage.

i love this era of her, with her drug store red hair and wide open face. she's unrefined in the best way. the only thing that kind of sticks in my craw about these early performances are the really dramatic, theatrical head-tosses and playing to that whole wild wood nymph tied to piano thing. my tastes are too subtle to like all of that. but she was young and crazy so what the fuck ever.

pretty sure that i have made a very similar post to this in the past.

DEAL W/ IT