Recommendation: “I’m a Boy” by The Who
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“I’m a Boy” by The Who
a song
a song
Written in 1966, this song was intended to be about a time in the future when parents can choose their children’s gender and a family chooses to have four girls, but end up with three girls and a boy, so they decide to pretend the fourth child is female.
However, I find it could just as easily be a song being told from the point of view of someone expected to act female, but longs to be male.
Posted by Zory on July 20th, 2010 at 08:00 am
Category: music, recommendations, videos 8 comments »
July 20th, 2010 at 8:54 am |
That’s my song, and my mother only recently realised why!
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July 20th, 2010 at 9:23 am |
Whoa, dude. I just finished listening to that song. I was thinking about recommending it (is someone reading my mind?). I agree with the explanation. I like to look at it as I’m a boy but my mom doesn’t realize/know/won’t admit it yet and I just want to do all that “boy stuff” but I’m expected to do all that “girl stuff”. It’s kinda become my FtM “theme song” of sorts.
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July 20th, 2010 at 11:15 am |
Oh wow! Great song, I do love The Who! This is going on my ‘to buy from iTunes’ list for sure!
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July 20th, 2010 at 4:39 pm |
New favorite song. Don’t know how I never heard this before! Love The Who.
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July 20th, 2010 at 6:04 pm |
I can’t stop listening to this song now.
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July 20th, 2010 at 7:43 pm |
I had to check back and make sure this wasn’t a recommendation of mine I’d forgotten about…favourite band, and such a fabulous song, although I always feels a little weird singing it around the mother to whom I’m not really out. I think this may have come from the fact that Pete Townshend did some gender-muddling himself at one point. Love that man.
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July 20th, 2010 at 10:06 pm |
This is my theme song, too! I used to play this constantly. It fits perfectly since my mother is in complete denial about my being trans. We’re like some kind of collective consciousness around here, ha ha.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 5:55 pm |
Great seeing the Who that was. Keith Moon was so cute! Interesting to see the beginnings of Pete Townsend’s playing style. I only saw them later, when they were playing in big stadiums. Makes me feel quite old.
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