How many women have written a legendary love song?
Comment on Anon is feeling romantic
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Well. Not all men wrote a legendary love song.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
ahem Call Me Maybe?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Co-written with a man, sadly.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Always preferred Guitar String from CRJ.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago
At Last was written by two men and originally performed by a man.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You got me. Fortunately, I don’t need to look very hard to find a replacement.
T4V0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dido, Thank you.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Good song, but made famous by a man. Also co-written by a man.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 month 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 month 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 month ago
Jonie Mitchell Case of You
Emmylou Harris Boulder to Birmingham
TonsilCryptOssuary@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 month ago
Hayley Williams (Frontwoman of Paramore)
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I couldn’t name one of their songs if my life depended on it.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Your ignorance does not make a convincing argument.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
- Emergency
- Pressure
- Misery Business
Among others
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imo, Bad Romance is pretty fuckin legendary.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Co-written by a man. Also, do I really need to explain what’s wrong with it?
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What? That it’s too much of a banger?
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Tswift?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
I thought she made breakup songs
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Breakup songs are love songs
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Same
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 month 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 5 weeks ago
Now playing No Doubt - It’s my life
Love yourself.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
#YES ALL MEN