Songs About Gender Dysphoria?

[autumn08]

Did you hear the news about Edward
On the back of his head
He had another face
Was it a woman's face
Or a young girl
They said to remove it would kill him
So poor Edward was doomed
The face could laugh and cry
It was his devil twin
And at night she spoke to him
Of things heard only in hell
They were impossible to separate
Chained together for life
Finally the bell tolled his doom
He took a suite of rooms
And hung himself and her
From the balcony irons
Some still believe
He was freed from her
But I knew her too well
I say she drove him to suicide
And took poor Edward to hell

[Jacqueline]

Thanks for sharing. I didn't know that one of Tom's.

Joanna

[autumn08]

Thanks for sharing. I didn't know that one of Tom's.

Joanna

Thank you for responding, Joanna! If you know any songs that speak to your gender dysphoria, I would love to listen to them.

[Jacqueline]

Shilo-  Neil Diamond
Turn to Me - Lou Reed
She's the One- Ray LaMontagne
Pick up a Gun- Ray LaMontagne
Ugly Side - Blue October
the Wall - Pink Floyd (more a way to work through dysphoria for me)
Close to Normal Sound track(about a mentally disturbed woman and how it effects her family)

I am sure there are more I use but that's off the top of my head. I do work in sound.

Joanna

[BeverlyAnn]

One that always speaks to me is The River by Garth Brooks.  Listen closely to the words.

[Stevie]

 This is from the Disney movie Mulan.
http://video.disney.com/watch/reflection-4d34aa3e1d08164a13e3bbf2

Also Guns and Roses, Sweet child of mine.

[Sebby Michelango]

Did you hear the news about Edward
On the back of his head
He had another face
Was it a woman's face
Or a young girl
They said to remove it would kill him
So poor Edward was doomed
The face could laugh and cry
It was his devil twin
And at night she spoke to him
Of things heard only in hell
They were impossible to separate
Chained together for life
Finally the bell tolled his doom
He took a suite of rooms
And hung himself and her
From the balcony irons
Some still believe
He was freed from her
But I knew her too well
I say she drove him to suicide
And took poor Edward to hell

That song isn't about gender dysphoria. It's about a man who was born with a face at the back of his head including the 'normal' face. I don't know if this is a fictional story or not, but that's a birth defect and he couldn't take it. Therefor he committed suicide. So many of the songs you share in this thread isn't original about gender dysphoria.

[Jacqueline]

Sebby,

The request suggested songs that speak to your dysphoria. That is a fairly individual and personal thing. I am aware that most if not all the songs I listed are not inspired by trans stuff. However, they speak to me when I am experiencing dysphoria. Truth be told, very few people (on or off any spectrum) listen to songs in the original context that they were written.

Just wanted to get us all on the same page.

Thanks,

Joanna

[Sebby Michelango]

Sebby,

The request suggested songs that speak to your dysphoria. That is a fairly individual and personal thing. I am aware that most if not all the songs I listed are not inspired by trans stuff. However, they speak to me when I am experiencing dysphoria. Truth be told, very few people (on or off any spectrum) listen to songs in the original context that they were written.

Just wanted to get us all on the same page.

Thanks,

Joanna

Thanks for explaining.

[Deborah]

This one isn't about GD but it really gets to my issue of removing the mask, breaking the avatar, and returning to the beginning to find the end.



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[autumn08]

That song isn't about gender dysphoria. It's about a man who was born with a face at the back of his head including the 'normal' face. I don't know if this is a fictional story or not, but that's a birth defect and he couldn't take it. Therefor he committed suicide. So many of the songs you share in this thread isn't original about gender dysphoria.

This brings up an interesting conversation about the nature of art. Art is based on an artist's experience, but someone experiencing the work must project their experience on it, because while art expands our experience, it must also have meaning to us in the present. For instance, when reading Nabokov's "Lolita," or Poe's "Annabel Lee," I am experiencing a different world, and I know most likely Lolita and Annabel have nothing to do gender dysphoria, but I have always projected my gender dysphoria on the motif of the unattainable female.

I apologize. In my initial post, I should have asked for songs that speak to your experience of gender dysphoria, in order to convey the broad concept of which I am asking for examples.

[Serenation]

That song isn't about gender dysphoria. It's about a man who was born with a face at the back of his head including the 'normal' face. I don't know if this is a fictional story or not, but that's a birth defect and he couldn't take it. Therefor he committed suicide. So many of the songs you share in this thread isn't original about gender dysphoria.

I was going to say the same thing.

Sweet child o mine was about Axl Roses ex wife Erin Everly

[Patti]

I havent listened to it, but Gender Dysphoria Blues is the name of the latest Against Me! Albums. Mary Jane Grace is mtF in transition...

[autumn08]

She seemed dressed in all of me, stretched across my shame.
All the torment and the pain
Leaked through and covered me
I'd do anything to have her to myself
Just to have her for myself
Now I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do when she makes me sad.

She is everything to me
The unrequited dream
A song that no one sings
The unattainable, she's a myth that I have to believe in
All I need to make it real is one more reason
I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do when she makes me sad.

But I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me

A catch in my throat choke
Torn into pieces
I won't, no!
I don't wanna be this...

But I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me

She isn't real
I can't make her real
She isn't real
I can't make her real

[rachel89]

So there aren't many songs about gender dysphoria, but it seems like there are songs I can relate and that can convey the feeling of gender dysphoria in some way. My list is pretty varied,but somewhat dark. In no particular order.

1. Hey You--Pink Floyd
2. Car Radio--Twenty-One Pilots
3. Fade to Black--Metallica
4. lux Aeterna--Clint Mansell
5. Paralytic States--Against Me!
to be continued...

[ChasingAlice]

This is from the Disney movie Mulan.
http://video.disney.com/watch/reflection-4d34aa3e1d08164a13e3bbf2

Also Guns and Roses, Sweet child of mine.

I've seen this 100 times,  I have two girls 7 &  13, and never realized. Of course I did,  but did not. I guess my role is dad kept me from it.

[Cheska]

I havent listened to it, but Gender Dysphoria Blues is the name of the latest Against Me! Albums. Mary Jane Grace is mtF in transition...

*Laura

I thought I already posted in here but apparently not....

[Patti]

I wonder why I gave her the wrong name haha


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[Patti]

*Laura

I thought I already posted in here but apparently not....

Great song. Never had seen/heard it.


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[Dee Marshall]

Ignorance by Paramore. That one really speaks to me, even if it's about something else. I really should try to find out.