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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: L-O-L-A Lola
Message-ID: <2219@sun.uucp>
Date: Sat, 25-May-85 14:13:37 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 25 14:13:37 1985
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> >    Lola was a woman.  The song opens:
> >            "I met her in a club down in old Soho . . ."
> >      later: "I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola"
> >        and so on, using female pronouns throughout.  The line that Sam 
> > quotes should be  "Now I'm not dumb but I can't understand 
> >                    How she walked like a woman and talked like a man."
> > 
> >        I think.
> > 
> 
> Disagree!  Lola is a transvestite.  At least all of us who were "in the
> know" in the 60s thought so.  I say that the line "glad I'm a man, so is
> Lola" doesn't mean Lola is "glad" that the singer is a man, but that Lola
> is a man.  Anyone want to call Ray Davies to get the real story?
> 
You don't need to go that far... The Kinks have done quite a few songs about
transvestites, and this is only one of them.  i.e. it's a theme with them.
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