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The Unlikely, Lifesaving Queerness of Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan turned 80 on Monday. Lionized, denigrated, dismissed, and reborn, he was finally celebrated properly, as a great poet, in 2016 with the Nobel Prize in Literature. But on the occasion of his birthday, I would like to offer him one more unlikely honorific: queer icon.
To be plain, I’m not suggesting that Dylan is gay. In his autobiography he acknowledged his devotion to the “eclectic girls … non-homemaker types” whom he met when he first arrived in Greenwich Village, and that passion has never wavered. But there’s something else about Dylan that hasn’t wavered either, something that I sensed when he first strode out onto the stage of the Royal Albert Hall in 1965 and include followed as he went electric the following year, as we spoke for my first book on 1968, as I imbibed all of his words and music ever since. What made Dylan unique, made him a lgbtq+ icon and ally, throughout all that time is this: Comfort with queerness doesn’t require a particular sexual orientation. It’s a political stance, a clarifying
Bob Dylan and Kesha switch classic songs' pronouns for LGBTQ-themed album
Bob Dylan, Kesha and St. Vincent have reimagined well-liked love songs to honor the LGBTQ community, and the singers are doing it by changing pronouns.
The six-song album, Universal Love, was released digitally Thursday and includes Benjamin Gibbard of alternative band Death Cab for Cutie, singer-songwriter Valerie June and Kele Okereke of the indie rock group Bloc Party.
Dylan sang He's Amusing That Way, singing lines like 'I got a male crazy for me' - though the classic song has often been sung as She's Hilarious That Way by men such as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.
Statement: Bob Dylan (pictured), Kesha and St. Vincent have reimagined well-liked love songs to honor the LGBTQ community, and the singers are doing it by flipping pronouns
Others have sung it as He's Funny That Way, but they have mainly been women, including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Liza Minnelli, Etta James and Diana Ross.
Richard Whiting and Neil Moret originally wrote the number for a 1931 film in which Marion Harris performed it with the title I'm Funny That Way.
Kesha, who has a large gay fan base and has been a longtime supp
Universal Love
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Universal Love offers six newly recorded versions of iconic love songs that give same-sex couples a soundtrack for their have love stories and film pronouns changed to convey the world of Lgbtq relationships.
The album includes boundary-changing songs from some of today’s most-beloved artists. Bob Dylan, one of the most influential and victorious recording artists in American history, is among the visionary artists participating in this unprecedented project. Dylan re-recorded “She...
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LOSANGELES(Reuters) - Bob Dylan, Kesha and Valerie June are among the musicians and singers reimagining classic love songs as lesbian, gay, bisexual person and transgender anthems in a unused album released on Thursday.
The six-song “Universal Love” album is meant to give the society songs that manifest their own gender identity by flipping pronouns or having male and female singers reverse traditional roles.
Dylan, the Nobel Prize-winning composer and performer, covers “He’s Funny That Way,” a standard sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Diana Ross that has also been part of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby’s songbooks as “She’s Entertaining That Way.”
Guitarist and singer St. Vincent, who has said publicly she identifies as neither queer nor straight, performs “And Then She Kissed Me,” a version of teen group The Crystals’ 1963 hit “Then He Kissed Me.”
“The great thing about music is that it transcends all the barriers and boundaries, and goes right to peoples’ hearts,” St. Vincent said. “And everyone has a heart.”
Other songs on the album include pop star Kesha’s “I Need a Female to Love Me,” a version of Janis Joplin’s “I Need a Bloke to Love” and blues-folk singer Valerie June’s “Mad Abou
Bob Dylan, Kesha & Others Rework Classic Love Songs To Honour LGBTQ Couples
Universal Love recasts the genders of classics love songs in an effort to be more inclusive for the LGBTQ community…
Bob Dylan, Kesha, St Vincent, Ben Gibbard, Valerie June and Kele Okereke all appear on a new compilation EP that features “reimagined” versions of traditional love songs for same-sex couples.
Universal Love opens with Dylan’s rendition of the 1929 superb American songbook classic “She’s Funny That Way,” revamped as “He’s Funny That Way.”
Kesha flips the pronouns on Janis Joplin’s “I Need a Man to Love,” while St Vincent (AKA Annie Clark) turns the Crystals’ “And Then He Kissed Me” into “And Then She Kissed Me.”
The six-track compilation also features contributions from Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, who switches the Beatles’ “And I Adore Her” to “And I Love Him,” while Valerie June flips the pronouns on Noël Coward’s “Mad About the Boy.” Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke does the same with the Temptations’ “My Girl.”
“For years