Artist: The Raincoats
Song: Lola Lyrics
Overview:
This analysis explores female-fronted punk/alternative rock bands and how their top song expresses emotions. I will be using The Sex-Role Perspective to examine what it means to be a woman according to women in a male-dominated genre. To best explore the Sex-Role Perspective, my analysis will consist of highlighting emotions that fall under stereotypically female and counter-stereotypical emotions pulled from Hyde (1995, p. 134).
Stereotypical emotions conveyed:
Contersterotypical emotions conveyed:
“She walked up to me / and she asked me to / dance”
- Aggressive
“But when she squeezed me / tight she almost / broke my spine”
- Aggressive
“Well I’m not dumb but I can’t understand / Why she walks like a woman and talks like a man”
- Aggressive
“Girls will be boys and boys will be girls / It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola”
- Confronting gender norms directly
Conclusion:
This is a cover of The Kinks song Lola. This whole song is just a confrontation of gender norms and noticing the contersterotypical emotions or actions from a woman they met in the bar. The song is covered by a female-fronted and female punk band which adds another layer of complications in the gender norms.
Shared by: Zoe Green
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