Here's a fun post!
Discovering that people could transition and become passable as therir target gender was a revelation to me! Before discovering many transition timeline and before-and-after videos on Youtube, my idea of transexuals were solely based on the negative ugly, bizarre or plastic bimbo stereotypes portrayed by the mass-media. As well as being amazed, overjoyed and encouraged by those featured on the videos, I've always been interested in their specific choice of music for each video.
Sooooo, what music would you add (or will you be adding) to YOUR timeline /before-and-after / coming-out video?
My first choice (ever since hearing it for the first time) has always been:
1. "Mad Man Moon" by Genesis. A beautiful, melancholic yet rousing and sometimes boisterously epic song (it livens up at around 1:50, and cheers up at around 4:50), with lyrics that fit so well to my story and add metaphors to various aspects of being MTF trans*. (Though the word "man" featured in the title, is kind of ironic, haha!) I can think of a whole host of imagery to go with the instrumentation and lyrics throughout various points in the video, (in-between the obligatory shots of myself). The song's theme of a parched desert crying out for the fall of rain reminds me so much of my own increasing need to feel the cascading torrent of liberating emotional energy that may rain upon me if I took HRT. I'm currently putting together a pre-anything video (for should I end up going on HRT I'd want a pre-HRT video) and putting it to a shortened version of this song. Sample of some of the lyrics that fit so perfectly.
QuoteWhere a thousand mirages, the shepherds of lies
Forced me to land and take a disguise...
...If this deserts all they'll ever be,
then tell me what becomes of me.
A fall of rain?
That must have been another of your dreams,
A dream of mad man moon...
Within the valley of shadowless death
They pray for thunderclouds and rain,
But to the multitude who stand in the rain
Heaven is where the sun shines.
So now, over to you all!