How many women have written a legendary love song?
Comment on Anon is feeling romantic
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Well. Not all men wrote a legendary love song.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 day ago
GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
ahem Call Me Maybe?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Co-written with a man, sadly.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Always preferred Guitar String from CRJ.
T4V0@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Dido, Thank you.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Good song, but made famous by a man. Also co-written by a man.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day ago
At Last was written by two men and originally performed by a man.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You got me. Fortunately, I don’t need to look very hard to find a replacement.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 day 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 day 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 15 hours ago
Jonie Mitchell Case of You
Emmylou Harris Boulder to Birmingham
TonsilCryptOssuary@sh.itjust.works 23 hours 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 day ago
Hayley Williams (Frontwoman of Paramore)
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I couldn’t name one of their songs if my life depended on it.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Your ignorance does not make a convincing argument.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
- Emergency
- Pressure
- Misery Business
Among others
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Imo, Bad Romance is pretty fuckin legendary.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Co-written by a man. Also, do I really need to explain what’s wrong with it?
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Tswift?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I thought she made breakup songs
blarghly@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Breakup songs are love songs
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Same
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
I assumed if you make enough breakup songs eventually you got to make one about the “love” part of a relationship
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
#YES ALL MEN