{"id":14410,"date":"2013-02-17T22:26:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T03:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2013\/02\/17\/14410.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:05:01","slug":"six-of-one-none-of-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2013\/02\/17\/six-of-one-none-of-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"six of one, none of the other"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So. As Your Humble Blogger begins the process for <cite>As You Like It<\/cite>, it will have occurred to eager GRs to wonder what would be the theme of the Tenth Play Playlist List. Well, and you all probably aren&#8217;t so much wondering, as it&#8217;s obvious: cross-dressing. This is a play about cross-dressing, and it&#8217;s a great play because the cross-dressing is great. So what else would the mix be about?\n<p>The problem YHB is having, though, is that there are lots of songs about men dressed as women, but very few about women dressed as men. That I have found, anyway. Songs about men in drag include\n<p><ul><li>&#8220;Pretty Lady&#8221; Ke$ha<\/li><li>&#8220;Rebel Rebel&#8221; David Bowie<\/li><li>&#8220;Walk on the Wild Side&#8221; Lou Reed<\/li><li>&#8220;Laid&#8221; James<\/li><li>&#8220;Dude Looks Like a Lady&#8221; Aerosmith<\/li><li>&#8220;Andrew in Drag&#8221; Magnetic Fields<\/li><li>&#8220;Out of the Wardrobe&#8221; Kinks<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Not a bad start. There are two major kinds of songs here: character sketches and stories about romance in which the woman turns out to be a man in drag.\n<p>But songs about women in drag? There are a bunch of Sweet Polly Oliver songs about women dressing in drag to go to war. I don&#8217;t think I could comfortably put more than, oh, three of those into an hour-long playlist. And the two kinds of songs about drag queens? They don&#8217;t seem to exist about drag kings. Or at least they haven&#8217;t come to my attention. I did come across a song by a band called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboymouth.com\/\">Cowboy Mouth<\/a> called &#8220;Looked Like a Woman (But Dressed Like a Man)&#8221; but I haven&#8217;t managed to actually listen to it yet. Other than that? Drag kings at war, drag kings at sea. I eagerly await y&#8217;all&#8217;s counterexamples.\n<p>The third kind of cross-dressing song, and one that may actually be the bulk of the playlist, is the song that is associated with one singer, and is covered by a singer of the opposite sex. So I might include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FGHfqGGyANQ\">this M\u00f4nica da Silva cover of &#8220;Walk on the Wild Side&#8221;<\/a>. Or the cover by Dave&#8217;s True Story, which doesn't seem to be online. Anyway, I&#8217;m looking for your favorites of those, too.\n<p>In the meantime&#8230;\n<p>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger once again asks for your input.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16717,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410\/revisions\/16717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}