How many women have written a legendary love song?
Comment on Anon is feeling romantic
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well. Not all men wrote a legendary love song.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
ahem Call Me Maybe?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Whitney Houston was right there, man
IronBird@lemmy.world 5 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 10 months ago
Co-written with a man, sadly.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Always preferred Guitar String from CRJ.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
At Last was written by two men and originally performed by a man.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You got me. Fortunately, I don’t need to look very hard to find a replacement.
T4V0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dido, Thank you.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Good song, but made famous by a man. Also co-written by a man.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Jonie Mitchell Case of You
Emmylou Harris Boulder to Birmingham
TonsilCryptOssuary@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
Hayley Williams (Frontwoman of Paramore)
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I couldn’t name one of their songs if my life depended on it.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Your ignorance does not make a convincing argument.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
- Emergency
- Pressure
- Misery Business
Among others
blarghly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Imo, Bad Romance is pretty fuckin legendary.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Co-written by a man. Also, do I really need to explain what’s wrong with it?
blarghly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What? That it’s too much of a banger?
Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
Tswift?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I thought she made breakup songs
blarghly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Breakup songs are love songs
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Same
Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 months 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 10 months ago
Now playing No Doubt - It’s my life
Love yourself.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
#YES ALL MEN