Joeboy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 6:49 pm
Mart wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 6:24 pm
Yet another perfect opportunity to throw in the Kinks line - "It's a mixed up muddled up, shook up World ........ (except for Lola

)."
Top tune and in my Top 10 of all time. Poofs never bothered me, always took it as a compliment when I got hit on. Good luck to them, life's hard enough without getting bent out of shape over stuff like that.
Hopefully this is a fun thread looking at silly stuff, so it's OK to digress some ...
.... so .... I've found it quite fun to watch some 'reaction' videos, where younger folk here songs for the first time. The Americans are so funny listening to Lola. They really appreciate just how utterly gorgeous the song/music is, but you can see some confusion on their faces as they listen to the words. When they finally get to the (slightly ambiguous) line "But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man · And so is Lola." you see their faces light up with huge smiles. Hopefully times are changing and 'da yuff' aren't so upset by such 'stuff'.
Really brave song for its time, and apparently based on a real event, or at least inspired by the broad mix of London life the band hung out with in undergrtound clubs.
Certainly in my top ten of 'perfect' songs, along with Maria by Blondie, Sweet Child O'mine by Guns and Roses, and one that just gets better and better and better when Trump adopted it for his big events, seemingly oblivious to the fact that it describes him to a tee, and not in a flattering way - Fortunate Son by CCR.
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, Lord?
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah