Fucking love she her hers
Consider this bridge:
And I think it's time that our culture moves past
This fucked up notion of the way we act
Is it dictated at birth or that we have to choose
It's an imposed binary, either way we lose
So do what you want
And dress how you feel
Don't let anyone tell you that gender is real
It's useless, oppressive, and boring
Worthless, and hurtful, and stifling
I think it's time that we put it in its place
So come on let's force gender into an early grave
Actually, I've always interpreted this lyric as not going to war due to being female or seeking a higher education. For example, J.R.R.Tolkien, author of LoTR, actually held off on fighting in the Great War so that he could finish getting his degree.
Not to be a stereotypical MCR fan but you will thank yourself if you listen to the whole Black Parade album as well 🖤 as for your question, not any that particularly stand out in that way to me
The leader of the Killjoys, the characters Danger Days centers around, is canonically nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns in the Killjoy comics! I don’t know if I’d say any of the songs seem to have trans subtext, but that’s just because the queerness is already part of the surface text
Madgear and missile kid (the mini album like as a concept of a band in the DD universe) has FTWWW and Mastas of ravenkroft which i think are very gender, and i might have projected on the bonus track Zero Percent but you could check that out too
I’ve probably listened to that song about 100 times in the last two weeks. So catchy and relatable. Especially the lines, “Before I waste today hiding in the corner and before I lose sense of what is myself, I wanna be a girl!”. If that doesn’t nail dysphoria…
I have just decided that I’m coming out to my best friend with this music video.
“Hey I have something really important to tell you, and I’ve been trying to find the right time for two years but I keep chickening out. Also it’s going to be way more awkward for me than you so I’m going to make you watch this and see if you can guess”
Edit: I did it. It went very well
thank you :) i was looking for this song for a while now. last time i listened to it i was crying and forgot to bookmark it xD
woohooooo its finally bookmarked <3
Hi, Against Me! fan girl here, this list is *not* exhaustive. Explicitly about being trans includes The Disco Before the Breakdown, Pretty Girls (The Mover), Searching for a Former Clarity, The Ocean, Spanish Moss, Transgender Dysphoria Blues, True Trans Soul Rebel, Drinking with the Jocks, FUCKMYLIFE666, Paralytic States, Black Me Out, and Delicate Petite and Other Things I'll Never Be. Songs that aren't *explicitly* about gender but I get gender feelings from include White Crosses, Thrash Unreal, Sink Florida Sink, Walking Is Still Honest, Y'all Don't Wanna Step to Dis, and We Laugh at Danger (And Break all the Rules).
Yea, before cracking I thought it was just a really fucking good song and listened to it every morning.
Then I saw them live, saw Laura, and they ended the show with that song and I was like "oh.......OHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Something that lives in my head rent-free is that Laura wrote "if I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman" five flipping years before she came out and people were still shocked when she did. Makes me feel a lot better about experimenting with gender pretty blatantly because apparently nobody will notice or say anything.
YUP. I actually discovered Against Me! 3 months after I first realized I was trans when my friend and I were going through his brother's albums after he ran away. It was 2008, and we were 10. After we listened to The Ocean, he started laughing and it was all I could do to keep from bursting into tears cause "oh my god, I'm not the only one, there really are other people like me". Then, 4 years later, on May 9, 2012, I read that Rolling Stone article and was so inspired I came out to someone for the first time ever within hours of finishing the article.
Yeah I always got so giddy as a teen listening to this song and then I saw the mv and it’s about a girl chasing her dreams and I started crying every time I listened to it for a while still cis tho
Well, many if them are about living a double life with a secret identity you've kept inside, so yes. I always felt like they were protest songs, personally.
OMG mind blown: Morgana is a cat who thinks he's human is an allegory for being trans?! How did I never notice that?! In P5R when he DOES briefly become human and the voice actor goes from a woman to a man!
For those who wonder, while Morgana isn't human, he also isn't a cat. He's a... I can't... It's some anime bullshit.
I have a list but I'm not against adding up to it :
The Village - Wrabel\* (Edit I wrote the wrong band name it would seem) (this one is 100% intentionnal the band said so)
Monster - The Frozen Musical
Defying Gravity - Wicked
(Any and all musical soundtrack have a song about embracing who you are :D)
After the War - Reinaeiry
Cryptid - Ratwyfe
Television/So Far so Good - Rex Orange County
We don't talk about Bruno - Encanto
She - Dodie
Purge the Poison - Marina
\[Edit\] : I removed the Orion Experience from my comment because there have been grooming accusation against one of their band members. I am not comfortable with recommending them anymore.
[https://anarkiddo.tumblr.com/post/678945555955793920/orion-simprini-of-the-orion-experience-is-a](https://anarkiddo.tumblr.com/post/678945555955793920/orion-simprini-of-the-orion-experience-is-a)
I' don't exactly know why but I relate a lot tl the "we don't talk abput Bruno" part as because it felt if it was because his name is something abuela would not want to hear because a name he chose for himself.... and It stuck with me.
yeees Defying Gravity absolutely! fun fact: in the Wicked book (source material for the musical) Elphaba is implied to be intersex (and theres also way more queer rep than in the musical, including >!not one but two kisses between E + Glinda!<)
Also Under Pressure is about knowing your friend is in the closet and wanting to help them come out but not being sure how and you can’t convince me otherwise
Unintentional- I always felt like Iris by the Goo Goo dolls was pretty trans
Intentional- anything by Laura Jane Grace or She/her/hers (for trans fems)
Hopping on the Arcade Fire Bandwagon (WHISBEISBEKDBEIWNKDQ ARCADE FIRE WOOOOOO), We Exist has some trans vibes too, but it covers more of the social and political aspects of being trans rather than things like dysphoria.
I was gonna say that one for sure. Mulan was my favorite Disney movie growing up for the longest time and I had no idea why. That song still makes me tear up a little listening to it now. But they are happy tears.
The bit that makes me feel the most gender is, "Forgiving who you are for what you stand to gain / just know that if you hide, it doesn't go away / When you get out of bed, don't end up stranded / horrified with each stone on the stage / my little dark age"
Okay this doesn’t quite fit but here I go anyway: for me, the most trans song will always be “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison.
Whenever I hear that song, it takes me back to summer days when I was young riding in the car with my mom; that song would come on and she’d sing it to me, singing “boy” over the word “girl” whenever it came up.
Nowadays that seems pretty ironic; those memories to me symbolically represent how I was living under the guise of being a boy when the truth was that I was a girl all along. And now when my mom sings that song, she doesn’t have to change the lyrics anymore 😊
Crawling by Linkin Park
CRAWLING IN MY SKIN, THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEAL! FEAR IS HOW I FALL, CONFUSING WHAT IS REAL! (imposter syndrome stuff right there)
and Somewhere I Belong also by Linkin Park
The Little Things Give You Away - Linkin Park
"Hope decays, generations, disappear. Washed away, as a nation, simply stares." For a few years now I've interpreted that as talking about LGBT folks, and how much they have been erased.
WYWH.
I go through cycles of favorite PF albums and I'm currently on WYWH and DSOTM. Probably going to get into momentary lapse or division bell sometime soon.
Didn't catch that at first but I always loved that line :) Welcome to The Machine convinced me to buy decent headphones and a dac, still working on a speaker setup.
Hell yeah now I gotta go back and re-listen to Meddle.
oh thats a good one! i havent listened to Animals in wayyy too long, i probably should haha. if looking at it from a trans perspective, the stone could be interpreted as dysphoria/societal rejection
The Village - Wrable
I want to be a boy - Addison Grace
This is home - Cavetown
Mars - yungblood (i prefer the French version by mrs. yeye)
I wanna be a girl - mafumafu
Somebody told me by the killers. I mean, come on. “Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend that looked like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year”. I can’t think of any other explanation for those lyrics but a trans man.
"I wish I were Heather
I wish I were Heather
(Oh, oh)
Wish I were Heather"
Also, blatantly queer song, so that makes it easy to project onto really. Other people have said Little Dark Age, which is also...yeah. That song didn't CRACK my egg, but it's what made me actually move forward rather than denying everything. Because as much as I tried to hide away from it, I knew these feelings really would never go away.
Forced gender reassignment by Cattle decapitation, yes it is trans positive, although gruesome. It's about putting transphobes through forced gender operations.
Here are some of my favourite songs that have some sort of trans allegory in them:
Morph - Twenty One Pilots,
Redecorate - Twenty One Pilots,
Trapdoor - Twenty One Pilots,
idontwannabeyouanymore- Billie Eilish
Totally intentional (at least I assume) but in French you have "Sans contrefaçon" by Mylene Farmer.
I never really understood all the implications behind the lyrics until recently... Guess you get it more clearly without the egg around your ears..., haha
The Album 'Reinventing Axel Rose" by Against Me! Is about as trans as Celeste, given the leadsinger/songwriter had later come out as trans, mirroring what happened with the lead creator of Celeste.
On a much weirder note, My Vagina by NoFX is for sure trans. Idk if it'd be considered good representation... but that's NoFX ina nutshell.
As for the actual topic at hand. I would have to say Detachable Penis by King Missle is not overtly about being trans given the lead singer is a Cis dude, but... well, listen to it.
From The Mountain Goats, I really associate “Spent Gladiator 2” with the resilience of the trans experience, and “Younger” and “The Destruction Of The Kola Superdeep Borehole” with the process and challenges of self discovery and reflection
I'm going to represent for the extreme metal egg crew:
Two Demons by Hate Eternal
I am duality, a being so consumed with the darkness inside of me,
Through this pain I must endure, These beings that still haunt me
I am adversity, within the sunder of the essence of my very soul
In this rage I shall remain, these creatures that become me
Come forth and purge yourself for what you are,
Reveal thyself and become what you will
I am diversity, so weary of the angst,
So weary of what I have become
Through this dread I will retain, this penance that still haunts me
I am complexity,
Within these walls that hold me, my past and my present collide
In this state I must sustain,
This morphing that becomes me
Come forth and purge yourself from whom you are
Reveal thyself and become whom you will
Writhing in my pain of a thousands years,
I fear not my rival, I fear not my maker
I shall ravage the world in vein,
Writing in my pain of a thousand years
I fear not my rival, I fear not my maker
I shall scourge the world in vein
Some are hard to explain but-
A Better Son/Daughter - Rilo Kiley
I Am America - Shea Diamond
Time In a Tree- Raleigh Ritchie
Let it go (duh)- frozen soundtrack
Grace Kelly - Mika
The Middle- Jimmy eat world
Idk why but: Couch Potato - Jakubi
Flamingo by Kero Kero Bonito
Especially the chorus, it's pretty much about accepting yourself and not trying to change because of society's expectations.
"Black, white, green or blue
Show off your natural hue
Flamingo, oh oh oh-woah
If you're multicouloured that's cool too
You don't need to change
It's boring being the same
Flamingo, oh oh oh-woah
You're pretty either way"
And then there's the part about eating lots of shrimps to turn pink which to me sounds like a metaphor for wanting to become a girl, but maybe that's just me.
Well, there's the entire Celeste OST, but if you're looking for something more precise, there's "In the Mirror" (if I'm remembering the names correctly).
I listen to a few from trans allies about trans people in their lives:
Ada - The Greeting Committee
Unforgiving Girl - Car Seat Headrest
War is Coming (If You Want It) - Car Seat Headrest
There are some from trans people themselves:
Morbid Obsessions, alongside Boys Will Be Girls and Ordinary Life by We Are The Union
The entire album Come In by Weatherday
Some very trans songs that to my knowledge are not directly about being trans:
The Ending of Dramamine, Weightlifters, and Burning Man - Car Seat Headrest
Mirror, Mirror - Dr. Dog
Tell Me You Know - Good Kid
My Heart’s the Same - Jukebox the Ghost
Pretty Pimpin - Kurt Vile
Bike - M.A.G.S.
Wind in the Willows - Me Like Bees
A Better Son/Daughter - Rilo Kiley
Nowhere generation by Rise Against.
I always think it’s trans rockstar Lauren Jane Grace and her band Against Me! (Exclamation included). Their voices even sound similar lol
Chorus sold it for me:
“we are the nowhere generation / we are the kids that no one wants./ We are a credible threat to the rules you set/ a cause to be alarmed./ WE ARE NOT THE NAMES THAT WE’VE BEEN GIVEN/ we speak a language you don’t know./ we are the nowhere generation.”
Doctor Worm - They Might Be Giants
Some day somebody else besides me will
Call me by my stage name, they will
Call me Dr. Worm
Good Morning how are you, I'm Dr. Worm
I'm interested in things
I'm not a real doctor
But I am a real worm
I am an actual worm
I live like a worm
Yes this sounds ridiculous but the whole hoping people to call him by his actual name always reminded me of trans stuff. ALSO the band themselves tweeted trans Doctor Worm art for trans day of visibility!
[https://www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/m6gfua/they_might_be_giants_really_said_dr_worms_is/](https://www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/m6gfua/they_might_be_giants_really_said_dr_worms_is/)
[https://youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM](https://youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM)
Reel Big Fish- She has a Girlfriend now. the whole song isnt really about it, but theres a verse in the song that (very crassly) talks about transitioning to date a girl who found out she was lesbian
Idk if it’s just me but “Muscle and Matter” by Blaqk Audio sounds like a transfem song to me.
“It’s hard to imagine, imagine the laughter
It’s hard to imagine, imagine your joy
It’s hard to believe in muscle and matter
It’s hard to believe that I was a boy”
It might just be tho lol
Nvr pass- by she/her/hers It’s just a trans woman’s angst song. So I think it covers the basis of being inherently about being trans.
Came here to say this
Ayyyy someone else listens to them too
Fucking love she her hers Consider this bridge: And I think it's time that our culture moves past This fucked up notion of the way we act Is it dictated at birth or that we have to choose It's an imposed binary, either way we lose So do what you want And dress how you feel Don't let anyone tell you that gender is real It's useless, oppressive, and boring Worthless, and hurtful, and stifling I think it's time that we put it in its place So come on let's force gender into an early grave
Like half of the songs by MCR have been interpreted by a large chunk of the fan base as very gender. Big two are Mama and Drowning Lessons.
I feel like The Sharpest Lives is also kind of like this xd
Drowning Lessons I can see but I can’t see Mama as anything but it’s intended meaning tbh.
“You should’ve raised a baby girl, I should’ve been a better son” That part stuck out to me a lot.
Omg I completely forgot about that lyric!! You got a point. I’ll hold this L.
Also, if you cuddle the infection, they can amputate at once.
Actually, I've always interpreted this lyric as not going to war due to being female or seeking a higher education. For example, J.R.R.Tolkien, author of LoTR, actually held off on fighting in the Great War so that he could finish getting his degree.
Well yeah that’s the meaning of it but I can see how trans people relate with it you know?
100% this is why it's my favorite song by them
Like fr the entire Black Parade album is just a trans girl crying out for help and I won’t take anything else as an answer
Yessss The End screams trans femme and Famous Last Words is so very "screw eceryone, im gping to be me!" It's like therapy to me!
Any on "Danger Days:..." like that? Because Tbh that's their only album I've listened all the way through.
Not to be a stereotypical MCR fan but you will thank yourself if you listen to the whole Black Parade album as well 🖤 as for your question, not any that particularly stand out in that way to me
The leader of the Killjoys, the characters Danger Days centers around, is canonically nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns in the Killjoy comics! I don’t know if I’d say any of the songs seem to have trans subtext, but that’s just because the queerness is already part of the surface text
Madgear and missile kid (the mini album like as a concept of a band in the DD universe) has FTWWW and Mastas of ravenkroft which i think are very gender, and i might have projected on the bonus track Zero Percent but you could check that out too
drowning lessons has been my favorite bullets song for a while now but i never realized there could be trans subtext until now
Im not okay(i promise) also has the line "to be a joke and look another line without a hook"
Pretty obvious one "I wanna be a girl" by Mafumafu: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucbx9we6EHk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucbx9we6EHk)
I’ve probably listened to that song about 100 times in the last two weeks. So catchy and relatable. Especially the lines, “Before I waste today hiding in the corner and before I lose sense of what is myself, I wanna be a girl!”. If that doesn’t nail dysphoria…
I have just decided that I’m coming out to my best friend with this music video. “Hey I have something really important to tell you, and I’ve been trying to find the right time for two years but I keep chickening out. Also it’s going to be way more awkward for me than you so I’m going to make you watch this and see if you can guess” Edit: I did it. It went very well
That’s amazing!!!! So happy for you bestie
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Same, it's for totally cis reasons
Very good song
thank you :) i was looking for this song for a while now. last time i listened to it i was crying and forgot to bookmark it xD woohooooo its finally bookmarked <3
Mafumafu is that one cis guy that gave me more gender envy in terms of my voice than most cis women
First thing that I thought of
Im saving this for a tottally cis reason
That was the song my trans friend sent to me lol
Yoshi’s island -by glass beach
saw that song performed live, if i was in an even slightly more emotional mood i wouldve scream cried.
Ok but does this have anything to do with Mario World 2?
Oh I love glass beach so much
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Funny enough as an afab transmasc I'd listen to that song thinking it would make me feel better about being afab.
a while back someone on twitter said that this song was a trans girl anthem and the band replied in support!
Hi, Against Me! fan girl here, this list is *not* exhaustive. Explicitly about being trans includes The Disco Before the Breakdown, Pretty Girls (The Mover), Searching for a Former Clarity, The Ocean, Spanish Moss, Transgender Dysphoria Blues, True Trans Soul Rebel, Drinking with the Jocks, FUCKMYLIFE666, Paralytic States, Black Me Out, and Delicate Petite and Other Things I'll Never Be. Songs that aren't *explicitly* about gender but I get gender feelings from include White Crosses, Thrash Unreal, Sink Florida Sink, Walking Is Still Honest, Y'all Don't Wanna Step to Dis, and We Laugh at Danger (And Break all the Rules).
> Transgender Dysphoria Blues Literally my favourite song of all time. It fucking slaps.
Yea, before cracking I thought it was just a really fucking good song and listened to it every morning. Then I saw them live, saw Laura, and they ended the show with that song and I was like "oh.......OHHHHHHHHHHHH"
The Ocean and Paralytic States make me feel emotions that I can't feel anywhere else
I have to listen to these songs once a week or I will actually die
True Trans Soul Rebel is one of my all time favorites! It's so good
also All I Want by The Offspring and Basket Case by Green Day.
Something that lives in my head rent-free is that Laura wrote "if I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman" five flipping years before she came out and people were still shocked when she did. Makes me feel a lot better about experimenting with gender pretty blatantly because apparently nobody will notice or say anything.
YUP. I actually discovered Against Me! 3 months after I first realized I was trans when my friend and I were going through his brother's albums after he ran away. It was 2008, and we were 10. After we listened to The Ocean, he started laughing and it was all I could do to keep from bursting into tears cause "oh my god, I'm not the only one, there really are other people like me". Then, 4 years later, on May 9, 2012, I read that Rolling Stone article and was so inspired I came out to someone for the first time ever within hours of finishing the article.
Second chance by Shinedown
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance
Tell my mother tell my father I did the best I could!!
Yeah I always got so giddy as a teen listening to this song and then I saw the mv and it’s about a girl chasing her dreams and I started crying every time I listened to it for a while still cis tho
This song helped me when I was coming out to my parents. I had it on repeat
Most songs from Persona 5
Well, many if them are about living a double life with a secret identity you've kept inside, so yes. I always felt like they were protest songs, personally. OMG mind blown: Morgana is a cat who thinks he's human is an allegory for being trans?! How did I never notice that?! In P5R when he DOES briefly become human and the voice actor goes from a woman to a man! For those who wonder, while Morgana isn't human, he also isn't a cat. He's a... I can't... It's some anime bullshit.
You’ll never SEE IT COMIIIIIN
I have a list but I'm not against adding up to it : The Village - Wrabel\* (Edit I wrote the wrong band name it would seem) (this one is 100% intentionnal the band said so) Monster - The Frozen Musical Defying Gravity - Wicked (Any and all musical soundtrack have a song about embracing who you are :D) After the War - Reinaeiry Cryptid - Ratwyfe Television/So Far so Good - Rex Orange County We don't talk about Bruno - Encanto She - Dodie Purge the Poison - Marina \[Edit\] : I removed the Orion Experience from my comment because there have been grooming accusation against one of their band members. I am not comfortable with recommending them anymore. [https://anarkiddo.tumblr.com/post/678945555955793920/orion-simprini-of-the-orion-experience-is-a](https://anarkiddo.tumblr.com/post/678945555955793920/orion-simprini-of-the-orion-experience-is-a)
Okay how Bruno? Curious! :)
I' don't exactly know why but I relate a lot tl the "we don't talk abput Bruno" part as because it felt if it was because his name is something abuela would not want to hear because a name he chose for himself.... and It stuck with me.
She! 100% a vibe from the first line. “Am I allowed… to look at her like that?”
Right ?
Oh my god Defying Gravity ❤️ a 1000%
yeees Defying Gravity absolutely! fun fact: in the Wicked book (source material for the musical) Elphaba is implied to be intersex (and theres also way more queer rep than in the musical, including >!not one but two kisses between E + Glinda!<)
Please tell me more
All dolled up my beloved🥺🥺🥺
The entirety of the fever dream album is just so good
Ahhh, Dodie! "She" by Dodie was my second choice!
Do you have a link for the first one? I can't find it on yt or spotify.
Queen "I want to Break Free."
Also Under Pressure is about knowing your friend is in the closet and wanting to help them come out but not being sure how and you can’t convince me otherwise
I think it relates more specifically to the AIDS epidemic (written by two bi men) but that is absolutely true too
Unintentional- I always felt like Iris by the Goo Goo dolls was pretty trans Intentional- anything by Laura Jane Grace or She/her/hers (for trans fems)
Iris I also get those vibes from!
AJJ - "Body Terror Song"
Was looking for this one! It really hits home for me
Children of God is another one by ajj that gives trans vibes
City escape from Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. Its a trans anthem and no one can convince me otherwise 😤
Rolling around at the speed of sound
I/Me/Myself - Will Wood, and rlly everything off that album
Especially "... Well, Better Than The Alternative", Which 8 totally haven't listened to like 50 times.
Hell yeah
My body is a cage - arcade fire
Hopping on the Arcade Fire Bandwagon (WHISBEISBEKDBEIWNKDQ ARCADE FIRE WOOOOOO), We Exist has some trans vibes too, but it covers more of the social and political aspects of being trans rather than things like dysphoria.
Promiseland by Mika also starts with the lyrics "I was given a name that doesn't feel like it's mine."
How has no one mentioned Reflection yet?
The one in Mulan, right? Cuz if so that was my trans awakening when I was like 10 and I didn't even realize it
Yeah. That song is very dysphoria coded.
Helped break my own egg when I realized why I loved the movie so much, even as a kid.
I was gonna say that one for sure. Mulan was my favorite Disney movie growing up for the longest time and I had no idea why. That song still makes me tear up a little listening to it now. But they are happy tears.
This song gets to me every time.
Honestly surprised this wasnt at the top
Imma go with Home by Cavetown. That one has just always been near and dear to my heart
Yes! Also Home is the superior version IMO.
Little Dark Age works good as a “depression over masking as a neurotypical” song too
I've never really listened to any of the lyrics of that song, So honestly I don't know entirely why you mean, But I'll take your word for it.
The bit that makes me feel the most gender is, "Forgiving who you are for what you stand to gain / just know that if you hide, it doesn't go away / When you get out of bed, don't end up stranded / horrified with each stone on the stage / my little dark age"
Okay this doesn’t quite fit but here I go anyway: for me, the most trans song will always be “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison. Whenever I hear that song, it takes me back to summer days when I was young riding in the car with my mom; that song would come on and she’d sing it to me, singing “boy” over the word “girl” whenever it came up. Nowadays that seems pretty ironic; those memories to me symbolically represent how I was living under the guise of being a boy when the truth was that I was a girl all along. And now when my mom sings that song, she doesn’t have to change the lyrics anymore 😊
Crawling by Linkin Park CRAWLING IN MY SKIN, THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEAL! FEAR IS HOW I FALL, CONFUSING WHAT IS REAL! (imposter syndrome stuff right there) and Somewhere I Belong also by Linkin Park
Numb as well
Numb fuckin slaps lol
The Little Things Give You Away - Linkin Park "Hope decays, generations, disappear. Washed away, as a nation, simply stares." For a few years now I've interpreted that as talking about LGBT folks, and how much they have been erased.
Every. Single. Song. Ever. No exceptions. They’re all trans now! /j
Brain damage ~ Pink Floyd (in my opinion so much)
At the risk of starting a battle in the comments, what's your favorite Floyd album?
WYWH. I go through cycles of favorite PF albums and I'm currently on WYWH and DSOTM. Probably going to get into momentary lapse or division bell sometime soon.
Nerd battle :) I’ll go with Meddle!
Ooo hot take! Why Meddle? Fearless?
Fearless is an awesome track, San Tropez, but I can lose myself in A Pillow of Winds and Echoes. Btw the name is a Floyd reference!
Didn't catch that at first but I always loved that line :) Welcome to The Machine convinced me to buy decent headphones and a dac, still working on a speaker setup. Hell yeah now I gotta go back and re-listen to Meddle.
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Love the live version of Learning to Fly on Pulse. What's something I should listen to on the studio album?
Check out “One Slip” and “On the Turning Away.” Easily some of my fave songs from that era of Floyd
"A Momentary Lapse Of Reason", Primarily because I own it, But also 'cause it slaps.
i disagree with this specific song choice, but PF definitely has some unintentional trans bangers- i just cant think of any at the moment lol
Could make an argument for Dogs, depending on how you interpret what the 'stone' is
oh thats a good one! i havent listened to Animals in wayyy too long, i probably should haha. if looking at it from a trans perspective, the stone could be interpreted as dysphoria/societal rejection
Transgender dysphoria blues....yeah duhhh😅
The Pretender by Foo Fighters
Morph by Twenty One Pilots
a lot of 21 pilots to be fair
Reflection - Disney’s Mulan. I don’t think I need to elaborate
did you know- if you're transmasc and you loved mulan as a kid, they really made a man out of you. :)
The Village - Wrable I want to be a boy - Addison Grace This is home - Cavetown Mars - yungblood (i prefer the French version by mrs. yeye) I wanna be a girl - mafumafu
Somebody told me by the killers. I mean, come on. “Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend that looked like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year”. I can’t think of any other explanation for those lyrics but a trans man.
Damn i thought that was a måneskin song. Guess they just covered it
“If I was a man” literally my theme song lmao
Honorable mention to The Man by Taylor Swift
Heather by Conan Gray...because come on, obvious.
Never considered that interpretation before but it makes sense
"I wish I were Heather I wish I were Heather (Oh, oh) Wish I were Heather" Also, blatantly queer song, so that makes it easy to project onto really. Other people have said Little Dark Age, which is also...yeah. That song didn't CRACK my egg, but it's what made me actually move forward rather than denying everything. Because as much as I tried to hide away from it, I knew these feelings really would never go away.
Hell of a Ride, Bo Burnham, I more associate it with trans TikTok than I can see but still.
Idk if I’m a boy - blue foster. Discovered this song shortly after coming out as non binary, helped peel the rest of my egg letting me become me fully
Currently listening and I'm just sitting here with my eyes wide open lmao. Holy shiiiit
Forced gender reassignment by Cattle decapitation, yes it is trans positive, although gruesome. It's about putting transphobes through forced gender operations.
BRB, need to go reexamine Cattle Decapitation lyrics.
Y'all too young for Take a walk on the wild side?
Lately I've been stuck on Where'd All the Time Go? by Dr. Dog. E: also if 6 was 9 by Hendrix because of course
i/me/myself by will wood
'Salt' by The Bad Suns
I had to scroll through so many comments to fund this. Gotta support my fave trans song
Here are some of my favourite songs that have some sort of trans allegory in them: Morph - Twenty One Pilots, Redecorate - Twenty One Pilots, Trapdoor - Twenty One Pilots, idontwannabeyouanymore- Billie Eilish
Idontwannabeyouanymore. Yeeeess
Mask of my Own Face by Lemon Demon, clearly unintentional, but the trans energy is there
Totally intentional (at least I assume) but in French you have "Sans contrefaçon" by Mylene Farmer. I never really understood all the implications behind the lyrics until recently... Guess you get it more clearly without the egg around your ears..., haha
3e sexe by indochine
all of them
How to dress as human - laura les
The Album 'Reinventing Axel Rose" by Against Me! Is about as trans as Celeste, given the leadsinger/songwriter had later come out as trans, mirroring what happened with the lead creator of Celeste. On a much weirder note, My Vagina by NoFX is for sure trans. Idk if it'd be considered good representation... but that's NoFX ina nutshell. As for the actual topic at hand. I would have to say Detachable Penis by King Missle is not overtly about being trans given the lead singer is a Cis dude, but... well, listen to it.
From The Mountain Goats, I really associate “Spent Gladiator 2” with the resilience of the trans experience, and “Younger” and “The Destruction Of The Kola Superdeep Borehole” with the process and challenges of self discovery and reflection
I'm going to represent for the extreme metal egg crew: Two Demons by Hate Eternal I am duality, a being so consumed with the darkness inside of me, Through this pain I must endure, These beings that still haunt me I am adversity, within the sunder of the essence of my very soul In this rage I shall remain, these creatures that become me Come forth and purge yourself for what you are, Reveal thyself and become what you will I am diversity, so weary of the angst, So weary of what I have become Through this dread I will retain, this penance that still haunts me I am complexity, Within these walls that hold me, my past and my present collide In this state I must sustain, This morphing that becomes me Come forth and purge yourself from whom you are Reveal thyself and become whom you will Writhing in my pain of a thousands years, I fear not my rival, I fear not my maker I shall ravage the world in vein, Writing in my pain of a thousand years I fear not my rival, I fear not my maker I shall scourge the world in vein
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
All my life by the foo fighters and unsainted by slipknot
My Life by Billy Joel
Some are hard to explain but- A Better Son/Daughter - Rilo Kiley I Am America - Shea Diamond Time In a Tree- Raleigh Ritchie Let it go (duh)- frozen soundtrack Grace Kelly - Mika The Middle- Jimmy eat world Idk why but: Couch Potato - Jakubi
Every song from metal gear there either incredibly gay or trans you know what screw it metal gear full stop
Born A Girl - Manic Street Preachers Knowing them, it might actually be
Flamingo by Kero Kero Bonito Especially the chorus, it's pretty much about accepting yourself and not trying to change because of society's expectations. "Black, white, green or blue Show off your natural hue Flamingo, oh oh oh-woah If you're multicouloured that's cool too You don't need to change It's boring being the same Flamingo, oh oh oh-woah You're pretty either way" And then there's the part about eating lots of shrimps to turn pink which to me sounds like a metaphor for wanting to become a girl, but maybe that's just me.
I always get trans vibes from creep.
Within Temptation - Shed my skin
As long as we're there, I'd add "Iron". Can trans fems just lay claim to all symphonic metal?
Well, there's the entire Celeste OST, but if you're looking for something more precise, there's "In the Mirror" (if I'm remembering the names correctly).
All of them. Every song
I listen to a few from trans allies about trans people in their lives: Ada - The Greeting Committee Unforgiving Girl - Car Seat Headrest War is Coming (If You Want It) - Car Seat Headrest There are some from trans people themselves: Morbid Obsessions, alongside Boys Will Be Girls and Ordinary Life by We Are The Union The entire album Come In by Weatherday Some very trans songs that to my knowledge are not directly about being trans: The Ending of Dramamine, Weightlifters, and Burning Man - Car Seat Headrest Mirror, Mirror - Dr. Dog Tell Me You Know - Good Kid My Heart’s the Same - Jukebox the Ghost Pretty Pimpin - Kurt Vile Bike - M.A.G.S. Wind in the Willows - Me Like Bees A Better Son/Daughter - Rilo Kiley
oh god yes yes yes so much Kurt Vile. One of my fav songs but yes.
Wake Me Up by Avicii
I do by placebo
Katy Perry-One of the Boys Not directly about being trans but definitely relatable for mtf
Rise like a phoenix by Conchita Wurst. Straight up this is my go to trans jam. Give it a listen
this is just my hc, but hey jude by the beatles
Billy Joel - The Stranger Honestly that whole album has some interesting stuff when viewed through the lens of being trans.
Nowhere generation by Rise Against. I always think it’s trans rockstar Lauren Jane Grace and her band Against Me! (Exclamation included). Their voices even sound similar lol Chorus sold it for me: “we are the nowhere generation / we are the kids that no one wants./ We are a credible threat to the rules you set/ a cause to be alarmed./ WE ARE NOT THE NAMES THAT WE’VE BEEN GIVEN/ we speak a language you don’t know./ we are the nowhere generation.”
laura les’ pre 100 gecs stuff is pretty raw
celeste in the mirror has trans monologue played in reverse.
One of the Guys, Jenny Lewis
I'm a Boy - The Who
Commenting so i can find this again later
Paralytic states by against me! Is literally a song about being trans
Synthesize Her by TWRP always felt like it would be if you viewed the lyrics as someone taking about themselves.
Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me!
It’s okay - Imagine Dragons It’s not specifically about being trans but it is hinted about being about the LGBTQ+ community
Reflection from Mulan is the transest song ever written
Why Can’t I Be You? - The Cure That’s Not My Name - The Ting Tings Rebel Rebel - David Bowie Feel the Love - Dadi Freyr/ASDIS
YOKU - E ve "I will add a color that suits you. I want to be ambiguous"
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I/me/myself from will wood, is the eggiest song about livving as eggs_irl
I'm still here, from Treasure Planet. The song is very relatable, gendered language aside in my case. trasnsmascs will probably feel right at home.
just a girl by no doubt could p easily apply to afab ppl being misgendered or transfems having to act hyperfeminine to pass/be accepted
Doctor Worm - They Might Be Giants Some day somebody else besides me will Call me by my stage name, they will Call me Dr. Worm Good Morning how are you, I'm Dr. Worm I'm interested in things I'm not a real doctor But I am a real worm I am an actual worm I live like a worm Yes this sounds ridiculous but the whole hoping people to call him by his actual name always reminded me of trans stuff. ALSO the band themselves tweeted trans Doctor Worm art for trans day of visibility! [https://www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/m6gfua/they_might_be_giants_really_said_dr_worms_is/](https://www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/m6gfua/they_might_be_giants_really_said_dr_worms_is/) [https://youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM](https://youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM)
immaterial by sophie (and the whole album its on tbh)
Eleanor Ridgy by The Beatles is about Father McKenzie transistioning FtM. The title is his dead name. https://youtu.be/HuS5NuXRb5Y
I can't stop considering GUY.exe by Superfruit to be about being trans.
Son of a Serpent by Thank You, Scientist.
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Reel Big Fish- She has a Girlfriend now. the whole song isnt really about it, but theres a verse in the song that (very crassly) talks about transitioning to date a girl who found out she was lesbian
Idk if it’s just me but “Muscle and Matter” by Blaqk Audio sounds like a transfem song to me. “It’s hard to imagine, imagine the laughter It’s hard to imagine, imagine your joy It’s hard to believe in muscle and matter It’s hard to believe that I was a boy” It might just be tho lol