Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Songs about perversions - Lola Message-ID: <204@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 11:08:09 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.204 Posted: Fri Oct 19 11:08:09 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 12:05:26 EDT References: <2841@mit-eddie.UUCP> <779@flairvax.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 29 > The Kink's classic "Lola" comes to > mind, but homosexuality might or might not qualify as a perversion anymore. > Baba Is Lola about a) a man's encounter with a transvestite/transsexual OR b) a man's encounter with a dominatrix? Davies has always been ambiguous about the true meaning of the song. "I know who I am and I'm glad I'm a man, and so's Lola." Is she glad he's a man, too, or is she a man herself as well? (HUH?) "Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, it's a mixed-up muddled-up shook-up world 'cept for Lola." TRIVIA QUESTION: What's the difference between the American release of this song and the British release? ANSWER: Va gur Nzrevpna irefvba gur jbeqf "Pbpn-Pbyn" jrer ercynprq jvgu "pureel pbyn". Lola was also but one of a series of songs with extended redundant endings (starting with "Hey, Jude" and "Atlantis"). BUT... does anyone remember (while we're on the topic): "She's a boy that we like and he's gonna go far" from "Lawnchairs" by Our Daughter's Wedding ? -- "I was dreaming when I wrote this. Forgive me if it goes astray." Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr