Lyrics girls/boys

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Pascal,

I think we’ve only ever changed the gender of a song once or twice quite early on (I can only think of “Please, Please Me” right now) but have soon stopped doing that.

How we think about it now is that it’s best to keep the lyrics as they were intended by whoever wrote them. It usually throws us off and distracts from the music when we hear others change the lyrics of a song just to fit the gender of the singer so we have stopped doing it ourselves. I am sure there are examples when it works well but in most cases it’s an unnecessary change in our opinion. 🙂

[Walter Music]

I agree Lisa, covers are not the same if you start changing the he/she!!

[PASCAL]

I remember “Eight Days A Week” too

and “The Last Time” ….

[Bill Isenberg]

Staying true to the original words is important to me never was a fan of changing from boys to girls but the songs that you do change never bothered me because you stayed true to the song in my opinion.

[PASCAL]

In “You Really Got Me” MLT don’t sing “Girl”.

So Walter and Bill do you mean it’s not a good cover ? ????

[Walter Music]

Hi Pascal, LOL, with these Ladies they are the best no matter what they sing. When I am listening, I mean to the really good bands that play covers and they change a word or two, I believe they are doing it because they are self conscience of who they are as a gender and someone will think something weird, I don’t know show justice to the lyrics and melody, that’s why Lisa and Mona really pay attention to all the Licks that they get it as close to the original as possible. I play with a friend and he started playing Landslide one day, he looked at me and said no one said you can’t play and sing a song by a girl. I said let’s play it but just don’t change anything. I have made this way to long, sorry.

[Bill Isenberg]

I love that song Pascal for sure. LOL…Good one and in some cases I like Mona and Lisa’s cover over the original due to it being brought back from when it first came out and they make it their own to me.

[PASCAL]

I know a national anthem whose lyrics change if the country is ruled by a king or a queen! ( but I have never known that )

[David Herrick]

As a child of the 70’s I remember Shaun Cassidy’s cover of Da Doo Ron Ron, in which “his name was Bill” was changed to “her name was Jill”.

[Jacki Hopper]

Yknow…what matters to me is the song being sung, regardless of the gender of lyrics… and I do agree that original lyrics should stand but hey if its sung really awesome with lyric change and it works, why not…. it’s ok to get quirky once in awhile….????????

[Greg Dent]

I admire your choice to keep the original lyrics nearly all the time. Different lyrics are grating and draw too much attention to themselves. I like it that way even if it’s weird like in “Lola.” Your “Lola” is the coolest romp!

[PASCAL]

Sometimes the lyrics or the music can change …

https://youtu.be/aQ7R83qO2lw

[Dale Fischer]

I like them keeping the lyrics as they’re written. True to the original, just a bit more authentic.