How many women have written a legendary love song?
Comment on Anon is feeling romantic
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Well. Not all men wrote a legendary love song.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
ahem Call Me Maybe?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Whitney Houston was right there, man
IronBird@lemmy.world 7 months ago
wasnt she produced though? lot of these pop artists have the same 3-4 guys write all their shit
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Co-written with a man, sadly.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Always preferred Guitar String from CRJ.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Someone quoted Sappho earlier, love poetry written by a woman that has lasted 2500 years, and you shat on that.
There’s plenty of work written by women using male pseudonyms because women were forbidden to write.
There’s a lot of other writing by women that was simply suppressed for the same reason.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I didn’t think that this needed to be specified, but since anon is talking about men’s love for women, we’re looking for love songs written by women about men here. Sorry, but Sappho doesn’t count.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I submit, for your consideration, ‘At Last’ by Etta James, as one example; the many works of Emily Dickinson; and probably a non-zero number of works attributed to men (Such as the Brönte Sisters) since women have not been socially allowed to benefit from the arts until reletively recently.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
At Last was written by two men and originally performed by a man.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You got me. Fortunately, I don’t need to look very hard to find a replacement.
T4V0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dido, Thank you.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Good song, but made famous by a man. Also co-written by a man.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Also, Beyoncé Taylor Swift Joan Baez Stevie Nicks Joni Mitchell Carole King Dolly Parton
I could list more but it seems clear from your comments you don’t actually want an answer to the question.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Name one fucking song that anyone would recognize. Something like Bon Jovi’s Always or Meat Loaf’s I Would Do Anything For Love, or Elvis Presley’s I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You. Just one gut-wrenching, tear duct triggering love song written by a woman.
RBWells@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Jonie Mitchell Case of You
Emmylou Harris Boulder to Birmingham
TonsilCryptOssuary@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Literally anything by Violeta Parra. Lhasa de Sela is another favorite. You gotta break out of only English-language songs. (But also people are just giving you some basic-ass examples.)
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Hayley Williams (Frontwoman of Paramore)
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I couldn’t name one of their songs if my life depended on it.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your ignorance does not make a convincing argument.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
- Emergency
- Pressure
- Misery Business
Among others
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Imo, Bad Romance is pretty fuckin legendary.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Co-written by a man. Also, do I really need to explain what’s wrong with it?
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What? That it’s too much of a banger?
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Tswift?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I thought she made breakup songs
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Breakup songs are love songs
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Same
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
I assumed if you make enough breakup songs eventually you got to make one about the “love” part of a relationship
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Now playing No Doubt - It’s my life
Love yourself.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
#YES ALL MEN