History Main / TheCoverChangesTheGender

* The Save Ferris cover of "Come on Eileen" leaves the original lyrics completely intact. The result is...[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean intriguing]].

* The Kingston Trio's [[http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/K/kingstontriolyrics/kingstontriosomedaysoonlyrics.htm cover]] of [[http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/bogguss-suzy/someday-soon-4692.html "Someday Soon"]] is gender-flipped, and makes a lot more sense once you know that.

Sex is quite possibly the most common barrier. Many songs, (particularly ones about love or [[IntercourseWithYou sex]]), are unambiguously addressed to a woman or a man, or specifically sung from a male or female perspective. While it's not uncommon for musicians to perform songs "in-character" rather than as themselves, [[ViewersAreMorons some people can't accept an artist singing from the viewpoint of a different gender or sexual orientation than their own]]. So, when covering a song that was originally sung by a member of the opposite sex, what's a singer to do?

* Sonny Charles & The Checkmates' "Black Pearl" was originally about a love affair with a black woman (when segregation was the norm), but Kandystand's version turns it into a lesbian relationship.

** {{WordOfGod Gareth}} has said in an interview that it was mainly because he wanted to do Amelia's spoken/rapped breakdown

* The rock band A New Found Glory (now known as simply "New Found Glory") recorded two albums of covers of songs from movies called "From the Screen to Your Stereo". The second one features a cover of "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer (which is featured in ShesAllThat). One lyric originally goes, "You'll wear those shoes and I will wear that dress", NFG's version appropriately changes it to "I'll wear those shoes and you will wear that dress".

[[folder:Aversions]]

* Averted in Irish Traditional Music where the genders are never flipped because - well - that's the way it's done.
** Likewise, Scottish music. Female singers are quite happy singing Burns songs, despite "the lassies" being [[{{Understatement}} one of Rab's favourite subjects]].
** This convention resulted in one of the strangest mainstream release pop covers of a traditional folk song ever in Sinead O'Connor's rendition of 'I Am Stretched On Your Grave' which because O'Connor did not change the pronouns becomes O'Connor's dirge to her dead female lover who went to her grave with maidenhood intact as the one opportunity she and O'Connor had to consummate their relationship they didn't.
* Most vocal versions of "I Can't Get Started" were for male singers (the original was written for Bob Hope). Ira Gershwin created a female version for Nancy Walker.
** Speaking of Gershwin, there are male versions of "Someone To Watch Over Me" and "The [[strike:Man]] Girl I Love."
* Mario Winans' plaintive R&B ballad 'I Don't Wanna Know' - the 2004 single which, due to copyright law dealing with sampling of other tracks, hilariously co-credits both P. Diddy and Enya - is sung by a man who suspects his girlfriend is cheating and just prays that she keep it secret because if he discovered it for sure it would break his heart. Shola Ama came back with a devastating response from the woman's perspective called 'You Should Really Know', the gist of which was that if the guy was so in tune with the woman and so invested in the relationship he should know her damn well enough to know that she's not cheating. Oh, snap.
* Averted ''twice'' on [[strike:Sonic Youth's]] Ciccone Youth's ''The Whitey Album'', with Kim Gordon's cover of Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" and Thurston Moore's cover of Madonna's "Into the Groove"; the album itself is a tongue-in-cheek "tribute" to 80's music and pop culture.
* "(He/She) Thinks I Still Care" has been covered by several country music artists of both sexes, with the title getting changed accordingly.
* "Me And Bobby [=McGee=]" (Kris Kristofferson/Janis Joplin/Joan Baez/Johnny Cash)
* 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 TheCorrs, who flipped it.
* "House Of The Rising Sun" is an interesting case. Originally written from the perspective of a woman who falls for a drunken gambler and ends up becoming a prostitute, many male artists have altered it to be from the gambler's perspective. Some versions, however, juggle the narration between both characters, and some male artists like Bob Dylan averted this trope altogether and used the original female lyrics.
** No one is sure which version came first, or even who made the first version. Another variation is the version by The Animals, which is probably one of the best known, and is actually from the view of the gambler's ''son''.

* While not originally sung by a member of the opposite sex, J Mascis & The Fog's cover of TheSmiths' classic "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" manages to turn it into a particularily bad example of HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday.
** On the other hand, this trope was averted by Morrissey himself when covering songs like "I Want A Boy For My Birthday", "Give Him A Great Big Kiss", and "Golden Lights." However, his version of Bradford's "[[IntercourseWithYou Skin Storm]]" leaves out the line "[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean when it's wet and warm]]", making the song gender neutral rather than specifically heterosexual.
* Averted, probably on purpose, with Los Campesinos!'s cover of Heavenly's famed duet with Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening "C Is the Heavenly Option". That is, Calvin Johnson's part is sung by the female Aleksanda Campesinos!, and Heavenly guitarist Amelia Fletcher's part is sung by the male Gareth Campesinos!.
* "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" is another odd case. Originally written by Motown hitmakers Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, it was first recorded by the Miracles and the Isley Brothers, but never released. The gender was changed for Gladys Knight's version, which ''was'' released and became a number one single... only to be CoveredUp a year later by Marvin Gaye's iconic recording, which used the original male lyrics.
* Strangely inverted by two Har Mar Superstar songs originally intended for other artists: he wrote "Girls Only" and "Tall Boy" with the intention of giving them to The Cheetah Girls and Britney Spears respectively. When both declined, he put out his own versions without any lyrical changes. The former is about a girls' night out and finds him singing about having "the cutest little cuticles". The latter is ''technically'' about large cans of beer, but it's also [[IntercourseWithYou very innuendo laden]] ("where's my tall boy?/ to satisfy my needs/ feel like drinking/ so come on get inside of me").
* TheSistersOfMercy averted this trope with their version of Dolly Parton's "Jolene."
** Also averted in the White Stripes' version.
* It's also averted in The Sisters of Mercy cover of... ABBA's ''"Gimme Gimme Gimme," of all songs.''
* Averted in Emily Picha's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel No. 2," which adds a whole new level of meaning to "You told me again you preferred handsome men, but for me you would make an exception."
** Same goes for ReginaSpektor's cover of the same song.
* Averted by Max Vernon's cover of "I Kissed A Girl": he kept the lyrics, [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning which changed the meaning of the song]].
** The same goes for ''Attack! Attack!''s cover, and {{McFly}}'s
** And John Barrowman's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMncnFQkZ5w karaoke attempt]].
* Corrinne Bailey Rae's cover of "Sexyback" changes "them other boys they don't know how to act" to "them other ''girls''...", but leaves the "come here, girl" parts alone (probably to appeal to [[YuriFanboy a certain demographic]]).
* Apparently there was a time when it was illegal due to copyright law to change the lyrics of a song, ''even pronouns''- Art Deco released an album called "Can't Help Lovin' that Man" featuring many gentlemen (including Bing Crosby and Ukulele Ike) singing songs intended for women.
* Similar to the Los Campesinos! aversion, the Future Bible Heroes cover of "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League has Claudia Gonson singing the male verse and Stephin Merritt singing the female verse (complete with the line "I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar"). And Chia Pet's version of the same song is a duet between two female vocalists, also without changing any lyrics.
* The Dan Band bases their entire existence around subverting this trope. This all-man band covers nothing but songs originally sung by female artists and never change the gender, but they do throw in gratuitous swearing for fun.
* Most times Blixa Bargeld sings the female part of "Where The Wild Roses Grow" with Nick Cave, there seem to be no pronoun changes from when it was a borderline-SopranoAndGravel duet with Kylie Minogue . Or differences in how the two act when on stage. It makes it either a little more confusing or a little more HoYay. (Though it would work fairly well as a song between two men if it weren't for the fact that a major part of the chorus is "for my name was Eliza Day".)
** This is partly due to Bargeld having sung the female part on the original demo track and the song and Bargeld being such fan favourites that there was no issue performing it like this live. Also, it follows the traditional folk song convention of not changing pronouns.
* Patti Smith's semi-cover of Van Morrison's "Gloria" leaves the gender unchanged.
* Averted by Mr. Bungle performing the Portishead song "Glory Box", with Mike Patton leaving the lyrics (such as "I just wanna be a woman") unchanged.
** Anyone capable of covering that song with a GenderFlip has to get some sort of prize.
* The White Stripes cover of Dolly Parton's song Jolene keeps the original lyrics about the singer's man being stolen by a girl.
* Averted by RichardCheese, who has no problem asking his bandmate to "lick his pussy", in his cover of ''My Neck, My Back'' (originally by KHIA).
* In "Shaken And Stirred: The David Arnold Project", a JamesBond theme song cover album, about half of the songs are done by opposite gender singers with none of the lyrics changed, including a HoYay-licious male version of the very feminine "DiamondsAreForever", with lyrics "unlike men, the diamonds linger/ men are mere mortals who are not worth going to your grave for" left intact.
* Averted, or rather ignored altogether in the name of camp, in {{Erasure}}'s cover of Abba's "Lay All Your Love On Me" and "Voulez Vous" from the Abba-Esque EP. The lyrics "I wasn't jealous before we met/Now every woman I see is a potential threat" and "I still don't know what you've done with me/A grown-up woman should never fall so easily" from "Lay All Your Love On Me" and "I know what you think/The girl means business, so I'll offer her a drink", originally sung by a woman, are sung unchanged by male singer Andy Bell.
** And don't forget "Gimme gimme gimme (a man after midnight)".
** They've done this with several non-Abba covers, namely The Partridge Family's "Walking in the Rain" and Ike & Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High". It's rather amusing to hear a man sing "When I was a little girl, I had a ragdoll/The only doll I've ever owned"...
* Averted in Blixa Bargeld's cover of Peggy Lee's "Johnny Guitar" which uses the same lyrics as the original. As a result, it sounds like a love song from one man to another.
* Bluntly averted by The Killing Moon's cover of AlanisMorissette's rather explicit song "You Oughta Know". Which brings us lines like "Are you thinking of me when you fuck her?" sung by a man. The end result is much like a guy being left by his boyfriend for a woman and being seriously pissed off about it (that he's singing about his girlfriend leaving him for another girl gets unlikely with the lines "Would she have your baby?" and "Did you forget about me, Mr. Duplicity?").
** 1,000 Mona Lisas did the same with their cover, which was something of a novelty hit in the 90's.
* Amusingly averted in The AllAmericanRejects cover of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faBOHMv6SJ8 Womanizer]]"
* Averted hard by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' [[JustForPun Are A Drag]], an entire album of non-gender-flipped covers of originally female songs.
* JohnBarrowman's cover of "You're So Vain" averts this trope, leaving in lines like "All the girls thought that they'd be your partner".
* The trope was averted more frequently in years past, which is (probably) the reason Dolly Parton did so when she covered "Rockytop". ("Once I had a girl on Rockytop, half-bear the other half cat/Wild as a mink but sweet as soda-pop; I still dream about that.")
* Patricia O'Callaghan covered Leonard Cohen's "I'm Your Man" without changing the lyrics at all, turning a fairly standard love song into a wonderfully lesbian love song.
** Which has since been used as an ''epic'' background song for an International [[SlashFic Femmeslash]] Day music vid.
* Averted by Marissa Nadler's musical treatment of [[EdgarAllanPoe Poe]]'s "''Annabelle Lee''", giving the tale a new LesYay flavor.
** Her cover of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" averts this as well.
* It probably goes without saying that Pansy Division averted this in their version of "Son of A Preacher Man", since that was the whole point of them covering the song in the first place.
* Used by the Cardigans cover of Restless Heart's "The Bluest Eyes in Texas", turning a sad country song about leaving your woman into... well, the same thing, only now [[InSpace with lesbians!]]
* Averted by Sarah Blasko in her covers of "Flame Trees" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". Yes, she sings "this boy's too young to be singing the blues".
* Averted by Cyndi Lauper when she covered Prince's "When You Were Mine". Given the image she was trying to cultivate, this may have been intentional.
* Sixpence None the Richer's cover of "There She Goes" kept the original gender pronouns, leading to lots of comment wars on Youtube over whether lead singer Leigh Nash was a lesbian or not. She isn't, she just didn't want to change the lyric.
* Averted by ToriAmos in her covers of "Famous Blue Raincoat", "Angie", "I'm On Fire", and many other songs.
** Of course the whole point of her ''Strange Little Girls'' album was to take songs originally written by men and to cover them from a female perspective.
* Averted in the Save Ferris cover of "Come On Eileen". Which is pretty natural, given a female name is ''in the title''. "You in that dress/Oh, my thoughts, I confess/Verge on dirty..."
* Averted in the Anne Murray cover of "You Won't See Me" by the Beatles. The few occurrences of "girl" are merely omitted, which does not significantly alter the song.
* Averted by The Watson Twins' cover of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven". All the original feminine pronouns are kept intact.
* Judy Collins covered The Incredible String Band's "First Girl I Loved" as "First Boy I Loved".
* Averted by Joan Jett in her LesYay-filled cover of "Crimson & Clover"...although played - er, straight - in her cover of "I Love Rock and Roll."
* Averted with AmyWinehouse's cover of "Valerie".
* Anya Marina's version of T.I.'s "Whatever You Like" averts this: The original is mostly addressed to someone in the second person anyway, but she does keep lines like "My chick can have what she want" and "I know you ain't ever had a man like that". The only thing that ''is'' a minor change is "Tell them other broke [[NWordPrivileges brothers]] be quiet".
* [[SongsToWearPantsTo Andrew Huang's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGF5iDrKvwY version of Rihanna's "Only Girl"]] is an aversion.
* 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.
* 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".
* 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'.
* 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]].
* 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.
** Not necessarily relevant to this trope, as the song is a third-person narrative, so it's more like the female singer is ''quoting'' a male astronaut.

* Roxette's "How Do You Do" originally had alternating male and female singers. Cascada's version is solely from the girl's point of view, without any change in lyrics.

* Alison Krauss averts this twice on ''Raising Sand'': once with "Through the Morning, Through the Night" and once with "Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson."

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* Elvis performing Dusty Springfield'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
* Tony Bennet did this all over his album "For The Ladies" which was entirely covers of songs made famous by female singers or written for female singers. This is averted in his live shows, however where he feels the original song is more important than the pronouns. And really trying to make Black and Blue about anything other than colorism black women experience doesn't work.
* FrankSinatra performed "The Man That Got Away" as "The Gal That Got Away." (Aside from pronouns and such, the only difference in the lyrics was changing "A one-man woman" to "A lost, lost loser.") However, this was averted in Jeff Buckley and RufusWainwright's version. (Then again, Rufus Wainwright is openly gay, so that's not surprising)
** Sinatra also recorded "The Girl Next Door," an alternate-pronoun version of another song originally done by JudyGarland, "The Boy Next Door" from ''MeetMeInStLouis''.
* Used by the Beatles ("my girl says when I kiss her lips...") in their cover of the Shirelles' "Boys." It's still full of HoYay, though.
** Another Beatles example: the obscure girl group song "Devil in His Heart" was changed to "Devil in Her Heart".
** Not to mention their cover of the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman".
* Vanilla Fudge's cover of Sonny & Cher's "Bang Bang" is sung from the boy's perspective rather than the girl's.
* The Beach Boys remade the Crystals song "Then He Kissed Me" as "Then I Kissed Her."
* CountingCrows' cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" turns "a big yellow taxi took away my old man" to "a big yellow taxi took my girl away." This stands out as it is in no way clear that the "old man" in question is, in fact, a love interest. It could as easily be the artist's father.
* Neil Diamond covered "I Dreamed a Dream" from ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]'', changing the pronouns.
* All of the various "I Kissed A Guy" covers on YouTube.
* Used for the French song "Mon amant de la Saint Jean": the original is sung from the point of view of a woman ("I loved him.") When it was covered by a male singer, the lyrics were changed to the point of view of an outsider ("She loved him.")
* Soft Cell's [[CoveredUp cover]] of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love" changes the line "all a girl could give" to "all a boy can give."
* "Wild About Harry" (which is still remembered mainly due to Looney Tunes), is interchangeable with "Wild About Mary."
* On Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen, Los Lobos changed the lyric "Now I'm sleepin' like a princess" from Sleeping on the Sidewalk to "Now I'm sleepin' like a ki-ing" not only did it throw off the rythm, but it changed the meaning of the lyric. A princess more or less only has to worry about who she's going to end up marrying, whereas a king has to worry about ruling the country and not getting assassinated- who's more likely to sleep soundly?
* "Mr. Sandman" was originally performed by the Chordettes with the desired "dream" (a.k.a. love interest) being a "he". In the Four Aces' version (it is this version which is heard in ''BackToTheFuture''), the "dream" is a "she."
** This is also the case on the BlindGuardian cover. This is made somewhat weirder in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDFmNgmaEe0 music video]], in which the band's singer is dressed in drag. Of course, according to the video the (not-so-desired) "dream" is apparently a bunch of {{Monster Clown}}s.
* An interesting variation: Damien Rice's "The Professor" is originally entirely sung by him, but there is a recording in which Lisa Hannigan sings the second half, changing the pronouns so that she is singing as the woman who the first half is talking about, so that the song is about both perspectives.
* The Jonas Brothers' cover of "[[TheLittleMermaid Poor Unfortunate Souls]]" removes the singer's gender ("I'm a very busy ''person''/And I haven't got all day.")
* Parodied heavily in an episode of ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'', in which a male singer does a cover of "Papa, Don't Preach", in which he sings "She's keeping my baby!" while pregnant showgirls pose on stage. It's every bit as sexist and disturbing as it sounds.
* Shaun Cassidy did a male version of "Da Doo Ron Ron" - "her name was Jill" instead of "his name was Bill," and so forth.
* TheDoors' cover of "Alabama Song" (or [[RefrainFromAssuming "Whiskey Bar"]]) changed "Show us the way to the next little boy" to "Show me the way to the next little girl". Originally, the song was sung from the perspective of prostitutes.
* ''MoulinRouge'', "Like a Virgin," sung by [[LargeHam Zidler to the Duke (who joins in later)]], explaining why Satine wasn't there for an arranged rendezvous.
* "When She Loved Me" was originally sung by [=Sarah McLachlan=] for ''ToyStory 2'' from the point of view of the doll Jessie, which [[ItMakesSenseInContext makes perfect sense in context]]. Michael Crawford and a few other male singers have [[CoveredUp covered]] it, which makes a whole lot more sense if you think of it as a song about [[LoveHurts lost romantic love]]. The funny thing is, there's still [[LesYay female singers]] covering it, like Jordan Pruitt on Disneymania 5.
* 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. Springsteen released a live concert recording of the song, however, and he included a studio version of it on ''The Promise,'' his 2010 album of ''Darkness'' outtakes.
** Springsteen also used to sing the aforementioned Crystals song "Then He Kissed Me" in live shows as "Then She Kissed Me."
* "Bachelor(ette)", originally recorded by {{Bjork}}, is covered by Voltaire with the point of view changed.
* Tobias Sammet's Avantasia's cover of "Lay All Your Love on Me" by ABBA changes the "Now every woman I see" to "Now every man that I see".
* 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.)
* Averted by PetShopBoys in "Try it (I'm in love with a married man)", "In Private", and "If Love Were All".
* Shawn Colvin recorded a song titled "Every Little Thing (He) Does is Magic."
* Most songs on Masaaki Endoh's cover series ENSON. These range from the still-working (''[[GalaxyAngel Wing of Destiny]]]'', ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Eternal Blaze]]'') to the... less so ([[SuzumiyaHaruhi God Knows]], {{Sousei no Aquarion}}).
* TheyMightBeGiants played this straight with their cover of "Maybe I Know" by Lesley Gore (best known for "It's My Party").
* ("You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" has been covered by Rod Stewart as "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man"
* The Sunset Takeover are a group who explicitly exist to cover female-sung pop hits into male-sung rock songs. Many, although not all (like their cover of Circus), use this (such as their cover of I Kissed a Girl). Though one song, Poker Face, starts off like this in the first verse, averts it in the second, and uses it in the chorus... [[FridgeBrilliance because the original song was allegedly a meditation on bisexuality]].
* "Caught a Lite Sneeze" by ToriAmos as covered by Evans Blue. The lyrics were changed to "You're on my left/right side" and "I'm in the middle" instead of "Boys" which made the last line of the chorus make a lot less sense ("And you're not here." [[DontExplainTheJoke Wait, aren't "You" on my left and right sides?]])
** Averted by Voltaire when he kept the original lyrics. (Which, admittedly, came out sounding pretty gay. [[HoYay Not that there's anything wrong with]] [[SlashFic that]]
* [[TheXFactor Danyl]] [[BiTheWay Johnson]] did this in his cover of 'And I Am Telling You, I'm Not Going', prompting a sarcastic comment concerning whether it was necessary by one of the show's judges, effectively outing him on live TV. The InternetBackdraft has been... significant.
* The Mika version of "Pokerface" (it's all downhill from here, folks) changes the intermittent "she's got me like nobody" (fast version, referring to LadyGaga)/"he's got me like nobody, she's got me like nobody" (slow version, referring to [[BiTheWay her lovers]]) to the more neutral "you've got me like nobody," and replaces some of the uses of "he" in the lyrics with "you" to match...''some''.
** The same for Daughtry's version, which does change the word "he" to "you" or "she" every time.
* Savage Garden's songs are for the the most part very much gender neutral so long as it's not a song with a plot (such as ''To The Moon And Back'' and ''Two Beds And A Coffee Machine''). ''Truly Madly Deeply'' was covered by Cascada.
* The rock band A New Found Glory (now known as simply "New Found Glory") recorded two albums of covers of songs from movies called "From the Screen to Your Stereo". The second one features a cover of "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer (which is featured in ShesAllThat). One lyric originally goes, "You'll wear those shoes and I will wear that dress", NFG's version appropriately changes it to "I'll wear those shoes and you will wear that dress".
* The Kingston Trio's [[http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/K/kingstontriolyrics/kingstontriosomedaysoonlyrics.htm cover]] of [[http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/bogguss-suzy/someday-soon-4692.html "Someday Soon"]] is gender-flipped, and makes a lot more sense once you know that.
* Westworld's cover of AlanisMorissette 's "Uninvited". It helps that the singer Tony Harnell is a high-octave singer.
* Joe plays this trope straight in his cover of CarrieUnderwood's "[[strike: Before He Cheats]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_PPpaQ-HGM Before I Cheat]]"
* This happens a lot when male artists cover LadyGaga: Greyson Chance's cover of "Paparazzi" as well as both Daughtry and You Me at Six's covers of "Poker Face" are examples.
** And let us not forget the Artist vs. Poet cover of "Bad Romance."
* In Easyworld's cover of Olivia Newton-John's "Hopelessly Devoted To You", singer David Ford changed nouns and pronouns accordingly. However he later sang Candi Staton's "Young Hearts Run Free" in its original form, and even Carole King's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman". At least in his Easyworld work, he had a voice that could sometimes be confused for female anyway.
* Used by Forever the Sickest Kids in their cover of Taylor Swift's ''Love Story''.
* Twisted Sister's cover of "Leader of the Pack" reverses both the singer's identity and the relationship's outcome, having Betty die in a car crash rather than Jimmy wipe out fatally on his motorcycle.
* 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."
* 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.
* Bowling for Soup's cover of BritneySpears' "Baby one More Time" changed "boy you've got me blinded" to "girl you've got me blinded".
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* George Jones' "She Thinks I Still Care" became "He Thinks I Still Care" when Anne Murray covered it.
** Similarly, Conway Twitty's "Lost Her Love on Our Last Date" became "Lost His Love on Our Last Date" when Emmylou Harris covered it.

* Notably averted when Swedish folk artist Sofia Karlsson recorded the album "Black Ballads", singing songs written by Dan Andersson. His lyrics are so male-centered that the album is mostly known for the fact that a woman actually sings them unchanged.

* "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.

** This is especially odd, because when was the last time you actually heard a woman sing "Danny Boy" or any other Irish song?
*** While most well-known Irish music acts in the United States have male vocalists (The Chieftains, the Wolfe Tones, &c) there are a number of female vocalists, professional and not who prefer not to do a gender flip to preserve the integrity of the tune. YourMileageMayVary, but "Danny Boy" is an English song, written by an English composer.
*** Also, "Danny Boy" is not actually a love song. If you listen to ALL of the lyrics, it's an older man singing to his younger relative -- a son or grandson -- who's going off to war, and the singer is basically saying "Kid, most likely I'm going to be dead by the time you get back, but just promise to visit my grave when you do and then I can die happy knowing you're off fighting the good fight."
*** 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.

* Mario Winans' plaintive R&B ballad 'I Don't Wanna Know' - the 2004 single for reasons due to copyright law dealing with sampling of other tracks hilariously co-credits both P. Diddy and Enya - is sung by a man who suspects his girlfriend is cheating and just prays that she keep it secret because if he discovered it for sure it would break his heart. Shola Ama came back with a devastating response from the woman's perspective called 'You Should Really Know', the gist of which was that if the guy was so in tune with the woman and so invested in the relationship he should know her damn well enough to know that she's not cheating. Oh, snap.

** Must've been popular that year.

** It's also averted in The Sisters of Mercy cover of... ABBA's ''"Gimme Gimme Gimme," of all songs.''

* Alison Krauss averts this twice on 'Raising Sand': once with "Through the Morning, Through the Night" and once with "Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson."

* Alison Krauss averts this twice on Raising Sand: once with "Through the Morning, Through the Night" and once with "Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson."

* The cover of {{Public Enemy}}'s "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" by Tricky uses a female vocalist and doesn't change the lyrics.

* While not originally sung by a member of the opposite sex, J Mascis & The Fog's cover of TheSmiths' classic "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" manages to turn it into a particularily WallBanger-inducing example of HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday.