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- From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
- Subject: Re: "Cheating"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.132049.23736@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:20:49 GMT
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- In article <1hqik4INN7ns@bang.hal.COM> landman@hal.COM (Howard Landman) writes:
- >I'm not so sure. Many songs in "women's music" warn about the dangers of
- >intercourse. Take, for example, Chris Williamson's "Twisted Love":
- >
- > Twisted love, hard on the spirit
- > Twisted love, don't let me near it
- > Only one drop, can poison the water hole.
- >
- I will raise some questions about this interpretation -- there is nothing
- in the song that is gender-specific, and at the time Cris W. came out with
- the album she got some reaction from would-be fans that it was not
- lesbian-oriented enough. So I doubt there is an anti-male or anti-het
- message in this song; I think she's just talking about messed up relationships
- generically.
-
- I can't think of good examples of the kind of song you refer to (though
- they may exist), the best that comes to mind is the closing chorus of
- some humorous song: "I've given up steak for tofu and I know I can't
- go back" (might be "Piney Creek Woman" by Betsy Rose and Cathy Winter)
-
- Or Malvina Reynold's song "We don't need the men". (but she herself was het.)
-
- (Lycical celebrations of women are more widespread that denunciations
- of men.)
- --
- Albert Lunde | Interfaith | *Y*Y* "A branch on the
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