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** The same goes for ''Attack! Attack!''s cover, and ''[=McFly=]'''s

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** The same goes for ''Attack! Attack!''s cover, and ''[=McFly=]'''s{{McFly}}'s
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* Elvis performing DustySpringfield's ''You don't have to say you love me'' turns out pretty well, since there's no specific pronouns used. But regardless of gender it does come of with some HoYay subtext

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* Elvis performing DustySpringfield's ''You don't have Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have to say you love me'' Say You Love Me" turns out pretty well, since there's no specific pronouns used. But regardless of gender it does come of with some HoYay subtext
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* BruceSpringsteen wrote "Because The Night" from a male perspective, but couldn't make it fit with the rest of ''Darkness on the Edge of Town''. He ended up giving it to Patti Smith, who recast it from a female perspective. (Only one (concert) recording of Springsteen's version has ever been commercially released.)

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* BruceSpringsteen wrote "Because The Night" from a male perspective, but couldn't make it fit with the rest of ''Darkness on the Edge of Town''. He ended up giving it to Patti Smith, who recast it from a female perspective. (Only one (concert) Springsteen released a live concert recording of Springsteen's the song, however, and he included a studio version has ever been commercially released.)of it on ''The Promise,'' his 2010 album of ''Darkness'' outtakes.
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* The Girls Aloud cover of "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus flips the gender, [[SoBadItsHorrible and breaks the rhyme scheme]]. "Dick" rhymes with "kick". "Bitch" doesn't.

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* The Girls Aloud cover of "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus flips the gender, [[SoBadItsHorrible and breaks the rhyme scheme]].scheme. "Dick" rhymes with "kick". "Bitch" doesn't.
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** And let us not forget the Artist vs. Poet cover of "Bad Romance."

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* About half of the songs on the David Arnold Project of JamesBond covers are done like this, but with the lyrics remaining the same, leading to a man singing "Diamonds Are Forever".

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* About In "Shaken And Stirred: The David Arnold Project", a JamesBond theme song cover album, about half of the songs on the David Arnold Project of JamesBond covers are done like this, but by opposite gender singers with none of the lyrics remaining changed, including a HoYay-licious male version of the same, leading very feminine "DiamondsAreForever", with lyrics "unlike men, the diamonds linger/ men are mere mortals who are not worth going to a man singing "Diamonds Are Forever".your grave for" left intact.



* In "Shaken And Stirred: The David Arnold Project", most of the songs are done by opposite gender singers, with none of the lyrics changed, including a HoYay-licious male version of "DiamondsAreForever" with lyrics about "unlike men, the diamonds linger/ men are mere mortals who are not worth going to your grave for" left intact.
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* In "Shaken And Stirred: The David Arnold Project", most of the songs are done by opposite gender singers, with none of the lyrics changed, including a HoYay-licious male version of "DiamondsAreForever" with lyrics about "unlike men, the diamonds linger/ men are mere mortals who are not worth going to your grave for" left intact.
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* Played with by songwriter Mark Weigle, who invoked a GenderFlip with the '''subject''' of Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny", even though the singer remained. This changed the song's tone in more ways than its sexual orientation, as it hints that "Jenny's" SpearCounterpart "Jimmy" wrote ''his own'' number on the men's room wall.

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* Played with by songwriter Mark Weigle, who invoked a GenderFlip with the '''subject''' ''subject'' of Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny", even though the singer remained. This stayed male. He's remarked that this changed the song's tone in more ways than its sexual orientation, as it hints that "Jenny's" SpearCounterpart "Jimmy" wrote ''his own'' number on the men's room wall.
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* Played with by songwriter Mark Weigle, who invoked a GenderFlip with the '''subject''' of Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny", even though the singer remained. This changed the song's tone in more ways than its sexual orientation, as it hints that "Jenny's" SpearCounterpart "Jimmy" wrote ''his own'' number on the men's room wall.
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* Songwriter Mark Weigle invoked this trope with the '''subject''' of Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny", while keeping the singer male. This changed the song's tone in more ways than its sexual orientation, as it hints that "Jenny's" SpearCounterpart "Jimmy" wrote ''his own'' number on the men's room wall.

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* Songwriter Mark Weigle invoked this trope with the '''subject''' of Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny", while keeping the singer male. This changed the song's tone in more ways than its sexual orientation, as it hints that "Jenny's" SpearCounterpart "Jimmy" wrote ''his own'' number on the men's room wall.
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* Songwriter Mark Weigle invoked this trope with the '''subject''' of Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny", while keeping the singer male. This changed the song's tone in more ways than its sexual orientation, as it hints that "Jenny's" SpearCounterpart "Jimmy" wrote ''his own'' number on the men's room wall.
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*"Different Drum" was written by Michael Nesmith and contained this verse: "Well I feel pretty sure you'll find a man/who can take a lot more than I ever could or can...". When Linda Ronstadt recorded it, the whole verse was eliminated, probably because there was no way to change "man" to "woman" without changing the rhythm/syllables.
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* Madness's cover of ''Money, Money, Money'' by ABBA changed "If I got me a wealthy man" to "If I were a wealthy man," among other changes.
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* XTM's SpeedyTechnoRemake of the Olsen Brothers' "Fly on the Wings of Love" is sung by a woman, but still has the line "she's the greatest love I've ever had", making it a lesbian relationship.
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* Boyce Avenue did a PerspectiveFlip of KatyPerry's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAUMU3QQE6w Teenage Dream]]" and turned it into a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming:
--> "I will get your heart racing, if that's what you need, in this teenage dream tonight. Let you rest your head on me, if that's what you need, in this teenage dream tonight."
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* "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was written by a guy and from a guy's perspective. When Cyndi Lauper covered the song she changed some of the lyrics, turning it into a feminist's hymn.
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* "Fire", written by BruceSpringsteen and originally recorded by Robert Gordon, was made much more famous by The Pointer Sisters who sang it with a PerspectiveFlip.
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** Sinatra also recorded "The Girl Next Door," an alternate-pronoun version of "The Boy Next Door" from ''MeetMeInStLouis''.

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** Sinatra also recorded "The Girl Next Door," an alternate-pronoun version of another song originally done by JudyGarland, "The Boy Next Door" from ''MeetMeInStLouis''.
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* Averted in ShinyToyGuns' cover of Peter Schilling's ''Major Tom (Coming Home)", which still has the line "Give my wife my love" despite having a female singing the song.
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* Sufficiently old folk songs can go either way. "Black Is The Colour" by... whichever bloke it was originally by has been covered by Cara Dillon, who left it straight, and The Corrs, who flipped it.

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* Sufficiently old folk songs can go either way. "Black Is The Colour" by... whichever bloke it was originally by has been covered by Cara Dillon, who left it straight, and The Corrs, TheCorrs, who flipped it.
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* ''Scala & Kolacny Brothers' '' cover of ''Puddle of Mud'''s "She Hates Me" (which, of course, became "''He'' hates me)"
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* KT Tunstall's cover of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" has her singing "Let me show you ''girl''/that I know wrong from right" [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer to the apparent delight of many female fans]], especially following her Eye to the Telescope album on which [[MistakenForGay she's wearing a pair of rainbow suspenders/braces and sings endlessly about loving women]].

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* Neil Diamond covered "I Dreamed a Dream" from ''LesMiserables'', changing the pronouns.

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* Neil Diamond covered "I Dreamed a Dream" from ''LesMiserables'', ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]'', changing the pronouns.



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* the brilliant green, whose vocalist is the very female Tomoko Kawase, did a cover of the Kinks 'All Day and All of the Night" for their single Blue Daisy, without changing the repeated line 'Girl, I want to be with you'.
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*** This troper is slightly confused, because she hears women singing Irish music on records all the time. In fact, the first version she ever heard of "Danny Boy" was the CelticWoman version.

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* Freek de Jonge's cover of "Peter" plays this for comedy. At the end of the song, he reveals that "Peter" is the name of a girl from Suriname.

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* Freek de Jonge's cover of "Peter" plays this for comedy. At the end of the song, he reveals that "Peter" is the name of a girl from Suriname. Suriname.
* Oddly enough done by TheNewPornographers to ''themselves'': Carl Newman had written the love song "Go Places" for himself to sing, but he thought it sounded better in Neko Case's voice, so she sang it instead, without changing the line "Good morning, Christina".
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* The LadyGaga version of "Viva La Vida" leaves the gender the same in the first few verses, but she eventually ''screams'' "who would ever want to be...'''QUEEN'''!" and even changes "St. Peter" to "St. Mary" at a few points. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lady Gaga being Lady Gaga]], these are some of the more ''normal'' changes.

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* The LadyGaga version of "Viva La Vida" leaves the gender the same in the first few verses, but she eventually ''screams'' "who would ever want to be...'''QUEEN'''!" and even changes "St. Peter" to "St. Mary" at a few points. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lady Gaga being Lady Gaga]], these are some of the more ''normal'' changes.[[ThrowItIn changes]].
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* TheyMightBeGiants played this straight with their cover of "Maybe I Know" by Leslie Gore (best known for "It's My Party").

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* TheyMightBeGiants played this straight with their cover of "Maybe I Know" by Leslie Lesley Gore (best known for "It's My Party").

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* Alan Jackson's cover of Charly [=McClain=]'s 1981 hit "Who's Cheatin' Who" changes the pronouns so that it's a male singing about a female, instead of vice-versa. (Yes, Charly is a female.)

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* Alan Jackson's AlanJackson's cover of Charly [=McClain=]'s 1981 hit "Who's Cheatin' Who" changes the pronouns so that it's a male singing about a female, instead of vice-versa. (Yes, Charly is a female.)


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* A strange variation occurs with the country music song "Don't Go Out". The song was originally recorded by Foster & Lloyd, a male duo. When Tanya Tucker and T. Graham Brown covered it, they alternated the lead vocal on the verses. Tucker's lines were changed to a female perspective, while Brown kept the original male perspective.

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