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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

soundtracks

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GirlWithTheMouseyHair · 18/11/2010 18:34

me again and banging on about my show again honestly this is providing a welath of information and sometimes it's more beneficial to excavate from pretentious non-theatre types.

We're creating soundtracks for the half hour in the bar and space before the show starts and want misongynistic songs which cross the last 60-70years. There's obviously tons in modern R&B but we've found some Andy Williams, Cliff Richard, Alice Cooper etc. We want male only voices for this.

During the interval we need 5 songs to play which are sung by women, referring to oppression of women (eg Kate Bush - A Woman's Work)

The end is the really tough one. We don't want power ballads or anything by Whitney Houston or the spice girls but definately uplifting songs about female empowerment

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Prolesworth · 19/11/2010 10:38

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 10:39

Oh dittany, I love "You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful" etc :(

aDarkStarWithStrangeWays · 19/11/2010 10:41

Oppression: Tori Amos - Me And A Gun

YunoYurbubson · 19/11/2010 10:44

I've always thought Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clappers) is a real old chauv song.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 10:56

Ooh I know a couple more tha give me the creeps.

"Bang Bang You Shot Me Down" - Nancy Sinatra

"Run For Your Life" - The Beatles

MrsClown · 19/11/2010 11:50

I also love Helen Reddy, I am woman.

Put Him Out by Miss Dynamite is also a good one. What about Christine Aguillera and Lil Kim singing Cant Hold Us Down that is a good one.

MrsClown · 19/11/2010 11:54

Sorry forgot to add this bit. Examples of some of the lyrics in cant hold us down.

When a female fires back suddenly the guy dont know how to act.

It would be easier for you to swallow if I sat and smiled. What, am I not supposed to have an opinion, should I decline to speak cos Im a woman!

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 12:09

How about ?

GirlWithTheMouseyHair · 19/11/2010 12:16

this is brillaint, thankyou....

we'd already found Jack Jones singing "Wives and Lovers", tis perfect and elephants you're hitting the right note with run for your life and bang bang he shot me down.

adarkstar that is one of my all time favourite tracks, so haunting and beautiful and heartbreaking and awful...but I have other plans for that one!

keep 'em coming, this is brill

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 12:47

Oh good - have you seen this thread which became a bit of a forum for posting creepy relationship/DV songs?

Every Breath You Take is another creepy one.

BeerTricksPotter · 19/11/2010 12:55

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 12:58

I love that one too BTP! Everyone needs to lay off the classic rock and roll tracks or I will weep into my pointy bra and sweater combo.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 13:01

IMO the Big Bopper is the one who sounds like a great dafty in that song. "Ain't nothing in the world like a big eyed girl to make me act so funny make me spend my money make me feel real loose like a long necked goose etc". No worse than e.g. "He's So Fine" which is more stalky if anything.

Delilah is another creepy murdery song.

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 13:12

:o BTP. Think I liked these songs a lot when I was e.g. 16, and wrote the silliness off as (in e.g. Chantilly Lace) him being a silly old buffer.

Everyone needs to watch the video to btw if you haven't already. Bloody lovely.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 13:12

*Sisters, that is.

saucetastic · 19/11/2010 13:27

If your female empowerment songs can be sung by a man, then the lyrics of Shaking the tree by Peter Gabriel are excellent. It may have been covered by others.

GirlWithTheMouseyHair · 19/11/2010 13:44

thanks - think we really want to seperate out the sound though, distinctly male voices then female

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aDarkStarWithStrangeWays · 19/11/2010 14:05
gives a rather sad account of how it feels to be deep in an obsessive relationship, although not sure if they meant it that way or just thought it was 'romantic' Hmm

Lyrics here.

GirlWithTheMouseyHair · 19/11/2010 14:19

blind alfred reed - you are horrid horrid horrid...can't find a link but spotify "woman's been after you ever since"

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 15:29

Hey not sure where this would fit in but seems very apt. (Jack White but singing in a very high voice)

lyrics here

You've got her in your pocket
And there's no way out now
Put it in the safe and lock it
'cause it's at home sweet home

Nobody ever told you that it was the wrong way
To trick a woman, make her feel she did it her way

etc

TheGruffaloMami · 19/11/2010 17:23

the Saturdays - missing you.
the lyrics make my skin crawl

Lisa Stansfield - All Woman

HerBeatitude · 19/11/2010 17:38

Another gruesome one is |"He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)" by the Crystals (Phil Spector, famous abuser and wife murderer's Wall of Sound, nuff said)

dittany · 19/11/2010 18:01

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saucetastic · 19/11/2010 19:18

Maybe, Four Women by Nina Simone for interval music, although just as much to do with race as gender.

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