The song was inspired by the band's manager who mistakenly entered a gay bar in Soho, London. He gets picked up by a cross-dresser named Lola. The band laughed at their manager's eventual realization that Lola was actually a man. Great songs often come about from the strangest circumstances. LOL.
'Blink twice if you in trouble....' Yes, yes, yes, there's already a post that says this. But it is the best line I've ever heard by someone doing a reaction to any song. LMFAO Classic. Give this guy a sit com
“Blink twice if he’s in trouble cuz he can’t do any sudden movements” I’m dying!! 😂😂🙌👏🫶 Can you imagine what people thought hearing the song when it came out so long ago? I imagine the majority didn’t even understand it.
I didn't know what to make of it. Men dressing like women was very unusual. I had hitchhiked over much of the US and never seen it. We just dug the sound and did not dissect the lyrics; after all, some lyrics were there for the sound, not the meaning. LSD was second only to marijuana in drug usage, so everything did not have to make sense. It is odd now to think of this topic being introduced then, you're right.
A little bit of history this came out in 1970 which was the year of the first gay pride events. The first parade was the one year anniversary of the riots at Stonewall a gay bar which was raided by police and the gay/trans people in the bar fought back. So that was when gay pride began to be in the national consciousness. Still people were a lot less aware then.
"I'm glad I'm a man and so's Lola." Best ambiguous line of all time. I remember being a 15-year-old in 1970 and getting BOTH meanings for the first time.
This song was ahead of its time. I was 10 when this song came out even though I didn't understand the lyrics I would sing the Lola part. Great British band whose song never gets old.
LOL! when I was a teenager in the 70's had similar facial expressions while listening to this song for the first time. My hat is off for the Kinks and admire their courage to perform that contraversial song back in the 70's. Even in 2023 I am sure that song still raises a few eye brows.
Part of my interpretation of this song was that Lola was the only one who knew who she was and was totally comfortable with it. The Kinks were a very avant garden band and many future bands in the next 2 decades based a lot of their music and sound on The Kinks. Amongst the top of the best bands of all time. They did lots of wonderful, smart, political, and very pointedly direct songs. Check some of them out. Thanks for sharing and for your insightful, and hilarious reactions.
LOL in your mind. That's not at all what happened . There was no "love" and Lola was a sex worker DUH. And stop being a ridiculous virtue signaling genital preference denier.
@Richard Bexborn he's right. In the lyrics he's not upset when he realizes she's a man. He tells how he had never kissed a woman before, amd that he's not the most masculine man. Hinting at the possibility that he himself is a gay man. In the end he wants to be with Lola.
@@vovindequasahi You seem really upset that someone old enough to be your great-grandfather was more sexually experimental and self-aware than you'll ever be.
This song was on the radio all the time when I was a kid and for several years afterwards. And I never had any idea at all, I was just into the music and what words I could pick up. We didn't have lyric videos or the internet to look things up on so it was just whatever you could pick up and talk with other people about it. But it was so damn catchy! The Kinks though were known for just incredibly brilliant songwriting and they did stuff all over the map. One of their huge hits was Girl You Really Got Me Now. Infamously covered by Van Halen on their first album which was also a monster hit years later. In fact, the guitar solo Eruption happens right before it and goes right into it and were often played together on the radio. You might consider reacting to that, man. There is a live like nine-minute long or 11-minute long live from a concert Eddie Van Halen extended guitar solo Eruption that is popular to react to, but really that cut on the album is only like 2 or 3 minutes long at most and then it bleeds right into this Kinks cover of Girl You Really Got Me Now. And it just sets it up perfectly. But you would have Bertha rocking out for that two minutes before, I a hundred percent guarantee that.
That line,"I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola!" Can be interpreted differently, depending on how sophisticated the listeners are. Lola has been around virtually forever and I don't know how old I was when I really heard the lyrics. But since the singer seemed cool with it, who am I to argue?
Great choice Sceez and great reaction of course. The Kinks have a huge catalogue of great, great music to discover. "Waterloo Sunset", "Shangri-La", "Sunny Afternoon", "You Really Got Me", "See My Friends", "Big Black Smoke", "Dead End Street", "All Day And All Of The Night", "Celluloid Heroes", "Acute Paranoia Schizophrenia Blues" and tons more. The Kinks are rock's most underrated band.
A song about a nieve young man in the big city who meets a woman and gets a little bit more than he bargained for... lol, it was back in the day when we were all a little more innocent about this stuff. Great song, great band, and sly lyrics that back in the day took a few times to figure it out if you were not listening to closely and just grooving to the beat.
Sceez, man, I loved the look on your face as each new verse played. We were just as confused the first couple of times hearing it on the radio when it first came out.
Good review! Yeah, I'm 54 and straight as an arrow but there is something about this song that makes it so crazy good! It infectious and once you hear it, you want to hear again and again. It's anthemic. Gay/Straight/Bi? Who cares? Our protagonist in love for an evening!
This version is THE ORIGINAL with "Coca-Cola" in the lyrics. Since Britain didn't want to pay copyright fines even way back when, the lead singer had to jet back to the studio in England to beat release-date deadlines and re-record the line(s) "...tastes just like CHERRY COLA." Yes, a song ahead of its time!
This song was only 50 plus years too early. Would be a campaign song for some candidate these days. It'd win a Grammy or three at least. Crazy mixed up world has only gotten more insane since Ray and the boys wrote it.
I love the wit in this song, and the way more and more signs creep in. I was about 12 years old when this song came out, I laughed then and over 50 years later I still laugh. Thankfully this has never happened to me but I have had some strange adventures with women I have met during drinking sessions...
The sentence states "I know I am a man and so is LOLO"...., you had it right!! Rumor has it that this actually happened to someone in the band??? Always turns out some fun song when its REAL LIFE.....
Oh my God you just made me laugh hysterically - sitting at the bar with his big arm around him lol lol🤣 Still find this funny but if my nephew saw me laughing they would be so annoyed because they’re trans female to non-binary/male and referred to as they. But, what they don’t know… 😂 You can still laugh at this and support trans rights because I do.
I've seen a lot of reactions for this song and giita say yours was epic as you went through the song. To answer your question. ....the last verse...."Well, I'm not the world's most masculine man But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man, AND SO IS LOLA." The best part of your reaction was probably the same as his reaction. You liked it a lot but you had that scared look. 🤣😂
Thanks, Sceez - great song... so many people did not "get it" - yep, Lola was a man... read the lyrics, dude... (I'm not the world's most passionate man, but I know what I am, I'm a man, I'm a man... and so was Lola" but he still feels kindly toward her) - Kinks are an awesome group - extremely varied in their works.. you probably have heard some, and I hope you will react to more!
Gen x grew singing this song at the top of our lungs in elementary school. Not quite understanding. And we turned out ok. Today they would ban it. It was all over the radio.
KINKS, "LOLA". Despite the fact that the lyrics were inspired to producer/manager of the KINKS. Singer Ray Davies said that happened. Lol that being said, the music was great, along with the vocals. I believe it was their best song.
"Well I'm not the world's most masculine man But I know what I am And I'm glad I'm a man - And so's Lola..." Ray pretty much puts it out there. But the sixties still being largely both ignorant and intolerant around such matters, and Ray being the clever wordsmith that he is, he made sure there was a double entendre - a double meaning - in order to get it past the censors. If anyone questioned it, they could just say "Well, obviously, it's just saying that Lola too is glad that he (the singer) is a man. Anyone suggesting otherwise must have a very dirty mind..." As others have explained, the song was inspired by an actual incident involving their manager, who didn't realise the attractive lady he'd been dancing with all night was not quite what he'd thought. Only as the night wore on and the facial stubble started to show did the truth dawn... In Ray's version, the protagonist decides to not worry about it it and goes off happily with his new love. This was extremely daring for the times, and shows how accepting and ahead of their times Ray and the band were in their thinking. However, back in the 60s, 75% or more of those hearing this monster hit would have had little or no idea of what it was really all about. :-)
"They drank Champagne all night". All of us gotta' keep an eye out for each other under those circumstances. LOL. Yes, this is a true story. It really happened to the singer-songwriter Ray Davies. As if that's not bad enough on another occasion it even happened to the Kink's manager Robrt Wace in Paris. Keep in mind, this song written in 1965. Buy the way nothing became of these "happenings", both Davies and Wace are straight men. Alcohol is a dangerous drug. LOL
Man you my favorite new reactor If you like soul music Check out SRV live in Daytona Beach in 1987 Playing. Ain’t Gonna Give Up On Love This man gave everything he had every time he walked on stage
That moment when the penny started to drop and you had to put Big Bertha down... 🤣😂🤣😂 PRICELESS!!! This song caused quite the scandal when it came out because there wasn't wide societal acceptance of the LGBTQ community. And although attitudes were slooowly becoming more accepting of the LGBTQ community and more people were coming out of the closet in the 70's, most of the LGBTQ community still had to keep their sexuality a secret so a song seeming to celebrate the fact that this guy met and fell for a chick with a d*ck was disgusting and obscene to many folks. 🤘Rock On!🤘 Kelly
When the song was written homosexuality and transvestites was illegal n the UK. Even writing songs about this lifestyle could get you in trouble, which is why the meaning was a bit blurred. They also relied on the censors being mostly old guys who wouldn't pick up on the references.
I agree with not trusting any liquor that doesn't taste like liquor. Sweet drinks you can drink like all night and they don't hit you until later. One shot of strong whiskey and you know 2 or 3 more of those are plenty.
This song reminds me of two particular performances (a) Queen Fat Bottomed Girls and Freddie's Naught Nanny (b) Fee Waybill/The Tubes and White Punks on Dope - the first Marilyn Manson of Rock N Roll. Sceez if you saw what Fee wears on stage for that song you would say WTF Teenage had a race for the night time Spent my cash on every high I could find Wasted time in every school in L.A. Getting loose, I didn't care what the kids say We're white punks on dope Mom & dad moved to Hollywood Hang myself when I get enough rope Can't clean up, though I know I should White punks on dope White punks on dope Other dudes are living in the ghetto But born in pacific heights don't seem much betto We're white punks on dope Mom & dad live in Hollywood Hang myself when I get enough rope I can't clean up, though I know I should White punks on dope White punks on dope I go crazy 'cause my folks are so fucking rich Have to score when I get that rich white punk itch Sounds real classy, living in a chateau So lonely, all the other kids will never know We're white punks on dope Mom & dad live in Hollywood Hang myself when I get enough rope Can't clean up, though I know I should White punks on dope White punks on dope
OMG if our parents had known what this song is about they what have had a fit! They couldn't understand the lyrics and considered rock music just "noise."
I just love your reaction to this song, when you think this song was forty years plus ahead the current Trans movement but it could just as well have been written today.
Still laughing at your reaction to this , I knew what was coming , stiull remeber hearing this though yeah good song then listened to the lyrics , and was very confused lol
The song was inspired by the band's manager who mistakenly entered a gay bar in Soho, London. He gets picked up by a cross-dresser named Lola. The band laughed at their manager's eventual realization that Lola was actually a man. Great songs often come about from the strangest circumstances. LOL.
'Blink twice if you in trouble....' Yes, yes, yes, there's already a post that says this. But it is the best line I've ever heard by someone doing a reaction to any song. LMFAO Classic. Give this guy a sit com
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One of the greatest songs ever. Even after all these years. ❤
“Blink twice if he’s in trouble cuz he can’t do any sudden movements” I’m dying!! 😂😂🙌👏🫶
Can you imagine what people thought hearing the song when it came out so long ago? I imagine the majority didn’t even understand it.
Walk on the wild side by Lou Reed is another one I didn't really pick up on back then. Trans ain't new, they been around the entire time.
I didn't know what to make of it. Men dressing like women was very unusual. I had hitchhiked over much of the US and never seen it. We just dug the sound and did not dissect the lyrics; after all, some lyrics were there for the sound, not the meaning. LSD was second only to marijuana in drug usage, so everything did not have to make sense. It is odd now to think of this topic being introduced then, you're right.
A little bit of history this came out in 1970 which was the year of the first gay pride events. The first parade was the one year anniversary of the riots at Stonewall a gay bar which was raided by police and the gay/trans people in the bar fought back. So that was when gay pride began to be in the national consciousness. Still people were a lot less aware then.
@@krisaaron8180 Oh my god you people are totally obnoxious.
I came back to listen to this song reaction again. I wanted to hear the "blink twice" line again. Great reaction..
Just here waiting for it to slowly sink in.
"We drank champagne and danced all night, under electric candlelight." Some of the best lyrics you'll ever hear.
Yes, it sums up seedy Soho of the time.
Plus under lighting 5 o'clock shadow is easier to conceal since almost every lyric was a hint
"I'm glad I'm a man and so's Lola." Best ambiguous line of all time.
I remember being a 15-year-old in 1970 and getting BOTH meanings for the first time.
You had me dying with the bartender slipping him the napkin 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This song was ahead of its time. I was 10 when this song came out even though I didn't understand the lyrics I would sing the Lola part. Great British band whose song never gets old.
LOL! when I was a teenager in the 70's had similar facial expressions while listening to this song for the first time. My hat is off for the Kinks and admire their courage to perform that contraversial song back in the 70's. Even in 2023 I am sure that song still raises a few eye brows.
Now you have to listen to " Take a walk on the wild side "
Yes!
Great reaction! Fun song about an experience their manager had. Their lyrics here are quite brilliant!
He started so hyped and then didn't know how to feel.
Part of my interpretation of this song was that Lola was the only one who knew who she was and was totally comfortable with it.
The Kinks were a very avant garden band and many future bands in the next 2 decades based a lot of their music and sound on The Kinks.
Amongst the top of the best bands of all time.
They did lots of wonderful, smart, political, and very pointedly direct songs.
Check some of them out.
Thanks for sharing and for your insightful, and hilarious reactions.
It happens & it's OK when it does. Love is love. THAT's what the song is about.
LOL in your mind. That's not at all what happened . There was no "love" and Lola was a sex worker DUH. And stop being a ridiculous virtue signaling genital preference denier.
I don't think so dude.
@Richard Bexborn he's right. In the lyrics he's not upset when he realizes she's a man.
He tells how he had never kissed a woman before, amd that he's not the most masculine man. Hinting at the possibility that he himself is a gay man.
In the end he wants to be with Lola.
@@firefighterchick That is not true at all.
@@vovindequasahi You seem really upset that someone old enough to be your great-grandfather was more sexually experimental and self-aware than you'll ever be.
This song was on the radio all the time when I was a kid and for several years afterwards. And I never had any idea at all, I was just into the music and what words I could pick up. We didn't have lyric videos or the internet to look things up on so it was just whatever you could pick up and talk with other people about it. But it was so damn catchy!
The Kinks though were known for just incredibly brilliant songwriting and they did stuff all over the map. One of their huge hits was Girl You Really Got Me Now. Infamously covered by Van Halen on their first album which was also a monster hit years later. In fact, the guitar solo Eruption happens right before it and goes right into it and were often played together on the radio. You might consider reacting to that, man.
There is a live like nine-minute long or 11-minute long live from a concert Eddie Van Halen extended guitar solo Eruption that is popular to react to, but really that cut on the album is only like 2 or 3 minutes long at most and then it bleeds right into this Kinks cover of Girl You Really Got Me Now. And it just sets it up perfectly. But you would have Bertha rocking out for that two minutes before, I a hundred percent guarantee that.
Oh this is going to be good! 🤟🤟🤟❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥
Heard this song a thousand times before i knew what it was about, and my face looked just like yours when i got it 😂 .. catchy tune.
LO-LA , Lola !! Lol That was fun! Great reaction! 🤣❤🤣
The Kinks are kings. Everyone "borrowed their sound.
You got it quicker than most! Love the Tribe hat! And yes, it based on a true incident...
That line,"I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola!" Can be interpreted differently, depending on how sophisticated the listeners are. Lola has been around virtually forever and I don't know how old I was when I really heard the lyrics. But since the singer seemed cool with it, who am I to argue?
ROARING laughing man ..... Great reaction!!
All time classic! Always fun watching 1st time reactions. 😄
Great choice Sceez and great reaction of course. The Kinks have a huge catalogue of great, great music to discover. "Waterloo Sunset", "Shangri-La", "Sunny Afternoon", "You Really Got Me", "See My Friends", "Big Black Smoke", "Dead End Street", "All Day And All Of The Night", "Celluloid Heroes", "Acute Paranoia Schizophrenia Blues" and tons more.
The Kinks are rock's most underrated band.
LOL are you OCD? Who the hell types all that shit out WITH quotation marks, commas and spaces?
@@huitrecouture Why, I do. Obviously.
Is there any other way to do it properly?
This song was way ahead of it's time.
Weird Al Yankovic Yoda is a star wars parody of this song
One of the best reactions to this song so far!❤️😂
A song about a nieve young man in the big city who meets a woman and gets a little bit more than he bargained for... lol, it was back in the day when we were all a little more innocent about this stuff.
Great song, great band, and sly lyrics that back in the day took a few times to figure it out if you were not listening to closely and just grooving to the beat.
Ohhhmy goodness
I laugh soooo hard I was rolling on the
Whata reaction
Hey, it's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world but he and Lola are happy so that's good enough for me.
Hahaha. I’m still laughing! Best reaction ever.
0:44 I love this song and you. “The strings touched my spirit.”
Yep, he said he's glad he's a man, and SO IS Lola. I knew this song, but not the lyrics. Funny song, and funny reaction. Thanks bud, you're awesome.
Sceez, man, I loved the look on your face as each new verse played. We were just as confused the first couple of times hearing it on the radio when it first came out.
Love this song always makes me want to dance. 💃🏻
"she said LOLA in a dark brown voice" great line. Lola may be the whole package! Just your typical average love song.
Good review! Yeah, I'm 54 and straight as an arrow but there is something about this song that makes it so crazy good! It infectious and once you hear it, you want to hear again and again. It's anthemic. Gay/Straight/Bi? Who cares? Our protagonist in love for an evening!
This version is THE ORIGINAL with "Coca-Cola" in the lyrics. Since Britain didn't want to pay copyright fines even way back when, the lead singer had to jet back to the studio in England to beat release-date deadlines and re-record the line(s) "...tastes just like CHERRY COLA." Yes, a song ahead of its time!
I've seen a lot off Lola reactions this one is one of the best! Hilarious Skeez!!
This song was only 50 plus years too early. Would be a campaign song for some candidate these days. It'd win a Grammy or three at least. Crazy mixed up world has only gotten more insane since Ray and the boys wrote it.
I love the wit in this song, and the way more and more signs creep in. I was about 12 years old when this song came out, I laughed then and over 50 years later I still laugh. Thankfully this has never happened to me but I have had some strange adventures with women I have met during drinking sessions...
The sentence states "I know I am a man and so is LOLO"...., you had it right!! Rumor has it that this actually happened to someone in the band??? Always turns out some fun song when its REAL LIFE.....
Check out Weird Al's version Yoda. Its great! Grew up with the Kinks!
Oh my God you just made me laugh hysterically - sitting at the bar with his big arm around him lol lol🤣 Still find this funny but if my nephew saw me laughing they would be so annoyed because they’re trans female to non-binary/male and referred to as they. But, what they don’t know… 😂 You can still laugh at this and support trans rights because I do.
I've seen a lot of reactions for this song and giita say yours was epic as you went through the song.
To answer your question. ....the last verse...."Well, I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man, AND SO IS LOLA."
The best part of your reaction was probably the same as his reaction.
You liked it a lot but you had that scared look.
🤣😂
This is great, Weird Al's version is Yoda, first weird Al song I ever heard 😎
All I hear
Best reaction to this song ever! 🤣🤣 Yep, sound like ole Ray got bamboozled. Sound like he took the ball and ran with it. Oh Hell..🤣
First Punk band!
Great classic rock song.....great band....You Really Got Me, Misfits, Celluloid Heroes, Destroyer....so many great songs
Thanks
One of the Kink's greatest! Check out "low budget" or "catch me now I'm falling". They are rocking Kink's tunes!
Father Christmas is a good one too.
Hysterical reaction! Had me laughing
Great hat! I have one myself. Can’t wait until the Browns the Super Bowl. Cheers
Thanks!! 😂😂😂😂
I'm so surprised how many people misinterpret this song in the comments.
Yep, you got it
Thanks, Sceez - great song... so many people did not "get it" - yep, Lola was a man... read the lyrics, dude... (I'm not the world's most passionate man, but I know what I am, I'm a man, I'm a man... and so was Lola" but he still feels kindly toward her) - Kinks are an awesome group - extremely varied in their works.. you probably have heard some, and I hope you will react to more!
One best reaction ever! You're hilarious!!!
Anything the kings does is nothing short of genius! Destroyer is such a bad ass song
the slow realisation is funny.......
Gen x grew singing this song at the top of our lungs in elementary school. Not quite understanding. And we turned out ok. Today they would ban it. It was all over the radio.
There was no gender changing surgery in the 60s. Lola was a transvestite and this is a great song.
Hi! This is not true. The first gender-affirming surgery in the UK was performed on Roberta Cowell in 1951. She was a decorated WW2 fighter pilot.
😂 I was about 12 when this came out and knew right away what was up.
You figured it out first time. I never paid any attention to the lyrics much back then.
KINKS, "LOLA". Despite the fact that the lyrics were inspired to producer/manager of the KINKS. Singer Ray Davies said that happened. Lol that being said, the music was great, along with the vocals. I believe it was their best song.
This song was decades before it's time.
"Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am
And I'm glad I'm a man -
And so's Lola..."
Ray pretty much puts it out there. But the sixties still being largely both ignorant and intolerant around such matters, and Ray being the clever wordsmith that he is, he made sure there was a double entendre - a double meaning - in order to get it past the censors. If anyone questioned it, they could just say "Well, obviously, it's just saying that Lola too is glad that he (the singer) is a man. Anyone suggesting otherwise must have a very dirty mind..."
As others have explained, the song was inspired by an actual incident involving their manager, who didn't realise the attractive lady he'd been dancing with all night was not quite what he'd thought. Only as the night wore on and the facial stubble started to show did the truth dawn... In Ray's version, the protagonist decides to not worry about it it and goes off happily with his new love. This was extremely daring for the times, and shows how accepting and ahead of their times Ray and the band were in their thinking. However, back in the 60s, 75% or more of those hearing this monster hit would have had little or no idea of what it was really all about. :-)
There must be two versions of this song, one say cherry cola and the other one says Coca Cola.
From memory Coke objected to the name being used so they recorded it again.
"They drank Champagne all night". All of us gotta' keep an eye out for each other under those circumstances. LOL. Yes, this is a true story. It really happened to the singer-songwriter Ray Davies. As if that's not bad enough on another occasion it even happened to the Kink's manager Robrt Wace in Paris. Keep in mind, this song written in 1965. Buy the way nothing became of these "happenings", both Davies and Wace are straight men. Alcohol is a dangerous drug. LOL
Hey baby this one is great !!!!🥰🥰🥰
Man you my favorite new reactor If you like soul music Check out SRV live in Daytona Beach in 1987 Playing. Ain’t Gonna Give Up On Love This man gave everything he had every time he walked on stage
My dad named me after this song. U wanna talk about feeling violated? Lol when I found out what this song was about i was mad. 😂😂😂
Lmao. Great job
There is your spine Line 🤣😂🤣
That moment when the penny started to drop and you had to put Big Bertha down... 🤣😂🤣😂 PRICELESS!!! This song caused quite the scandal when it came out because there wasn't wide societal acceptance of the LGBTQ community. And although attitudes were slooowly becoming more accepting of the LGBTQ community and more people were coming out of the closet in the 70's, most of the LGBTQ community still had to keep their sexuality a secret so a song seeming to celebrate the fact that this guy met and fell for a chick with a d*ck was disgusting and obscene to many folks. 🤘Rock On!🤘 Kelly
When the song was written homosexuality and transvestites was illegal n the UK. Even writing songs about this lifestyle could get you in trouble, which is why the meaning was a bit blurred. They also relied on the censors being mostly old guys who wouldn't pick up on the references.
I'm guilty of singing lo lo Lola..🤣🤣🤣 First time I knew all the lyrics..🙄😅😅
I agree with not trusting any liquor that doesn't taste like liquor. Sweet drinks you can drink like all night and they don't hit you until later. One shot of strong whiskey and you know 2 or 3 more of those are plenty.
You crack me up 😅
The Davies Bros. and band......."L-O-L-A Lola......... la la la Lola !"........hey, it was the 60's ! everybody made a mistake.......
i blinked twice..
😂😂😂 Gotcha!
Funny reaction 😜
You should listen to Celluloid Heroes by The Kinks….. great song 😎👍
I love how non judgemental this song is.
Ray Davies was genius
This song reminds me of two particular performances (a) Queen Fat Bottomed Girls and Freddie's Naught Nanny (b) Fee Waybill/The Tubes and White Punks on Dope - the first Marilyn Manson of Rock N Roll. Sceez if you saw what Fee wears on stage for that song you would say WTF Teenage had a race for the night time
Spent my cash on every high I could find
Wasted time in every school in L.A.
Getting loose, I didn't care what the kids say
We're white punks on dope
Mom & dad moved to Hollywood
Hang myself when I get enough rope
Can't clean up, though I know I should
White punks on dope
White punks on dope
Other dudes are living in the ghetto
But born in pacific heights don't seem much betto
We're white punks on dope
Mom & dad live in Hollywood
Hang myself when I get enough rope
I can't clean up, though I know I should
White punks on dope
White punks on dope
I go crazy 'cause my folks are so fucking rich
Have to score when I get that rich white punk itch
Sounds real classy, living in a chateau
So lonely, all the other kids will never know
We're white punks on dope
Mom & dad live in Hollywood
Hang myself when I get enough rope
Can't clean up, though I know I should
White punks on dope
White punks on dope
It's 'old Soho' not 'North Soho'. The subtitles have it wrong.
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OMG if our parents had known what this song is about they what have had a fit! They couldn't understand the lyrics and considered rock music just "noise."
I just love your reaction to this song, when you think this song was forty years plus ahead the current Trans movement but it could just as well have been written today.
Now you have to do the follow up song by Lou Reed called take a walk on the wild side
Still laughing at your reaction to this , I knew what was coming , stiull remeber hearing this though yeah good song then listened to the lyrics , and was very confused lol
Great song. It was later in life before I realized what the lyrics really meant. AND thanks for the CHEIF WAAHOO hat. Kepp representing.
I met him in the swamp down in Dagobah... Whoops wrong version
"I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola" can be read two ways - "I'm glad Lola's a man" or "Lola's glad I'm a man."
“Violated” 😂
With the way you were plating that broom, I thought you were gonna miss the lyrics as some people do. You got it tho. Lol
That last line goes both ways (Ha, No pun intended). Is he glad Lola's a man or is Lola also glad that hes a man.
You should listen to Superman by them.