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  1. That’s all fine but when he was forced to record a complete separate version singing Red Kool-Aid for the black population of Chicago it was just too much.

  2. Lola doesn’t taste like either; the cheap champagne at the club was made overly sweet to hide the poor quality.

  3. He also had to change it to grape faygo so they could play it at gathering of the juggalos

  4. He had to fly back to replace one word… mind-boggling. Oh, the BBC…

    1. what? it’s pretty clearly pro-trans, especially for when it came out more than 50 years ago

    2. @@nate_storm It perpetuates a myth that transwomen are out there to trick young men into sleeping with them.

    3. I heard one of the band members was chatted up by a trans at a nightclub, and this song was taking the mickey out of him ​@@nate_storm

    4. ​​@@johnmac8084 Hard to really know from that era for 100% certain, but it doesnt really seem to be the case. The stereotype of gay men dressing as women from that era was more common, but Davies was rather accepting of those who did this and looked more into drag queens at the time while writing the song with an open.mind. Whether the subject was trans or a drag queen was not something they’ve ever revealed but Davies was pretty openly tolerant of whatever kind of queer inspired the story of writing the song for the time.

    5. You may have a bit of a misconception about trans people that tends to get annoyingly perpetuated on the internet. While there are some vocal quick-to-outrage types, most trans people are well aware of matters of the time period. Lola is considered a very progressive song of queer acceptance for its time and Davies spoke of it from such perspective.

      Hell, The Rocky Horror Picture Show for example has its elements that generally wouldn’t fly today yet screenings of the film remain a nigh-unprecedented place of comfort for trans people who accept it as a film of embracing one’s own queer identity rather than flogging it for a few aspects that don’t line up with perspectives nowadays.

  5. I did know this! But that’s only because my dad is a wee bit odd and The Kinks are his favorite b band

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