How many women have written a legendary love song?
Comment on Anon is feeling romantic
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well. Not all men wrote a legendary love song.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
ahem Call Me Maybe?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Co-written with a man, sadly.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Always preferred Guitar String from CRJ.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
At Last was written by two men and originally performed by a man.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You got me. Fortunately, I don’t need to look very hard to find a replacement.
T4V0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dido, Thank you.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Good song, but made famous by a man. Also co-written by a man.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Jonie Mitchell Case of You
Emmylou Harris Boulder to Birmingham
TonsilCryptOssuary@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Hayley Williams (Frontwoman of Paramore)
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I couldn’t name one of their songs if my life depended on it.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your ignorance does not make a convincing argument.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
- Emergency
- Pressure
- Misery Business
Among others
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Imo, Bad Romance is pretty fuckin legendary.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Co-written by a man. Also, do I really need to explain what’s wrong with it?
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What? That it’s too much of a banger?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Now playing No Doubt - It’s my life
Love yourself.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Tswift?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I thought she made breakup songs
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Breakup songs are love songs
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Same
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
#YES ALL MEN