Songs that strike a chord...

[Dianne S]

OK, here's some fun. What songs resonate with crossdressers and other transgender people? I have three songs that resonate with me. I'm sure the first two were not written at all with transgender people in mind :) but I love them anyway. Here's my list:

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A)

You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOyvYnkdEcc)

and of course... Let Your Freak Flag Fly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUFPWW7IqCU)

Eagerly awaiting more...

[Giselle(Oshawa)]

Man I feel like a Woman Shania Twain
I am Woman Helen Reddy

[Isabella Ross]

See my signature...

[Cheryl Ann Owens]

Of course this goes way back---- Lou Reed's, "Take a walk on the Wild Side." Yes, I AM that old. Back then it made me wish more than anything.

Cheryl

[prettytoes]

Phil Vassar- Bobbi with an "i"

[Jaylyn]

Beach Boys California girls.

[StacyCD]

Lola by the Kinks.

[Contessa]

Yes 1. Hold your head up. 2. I am woman 3. I can't help what I am, this song is by Eddie Kendricks that I found and did not know existed. It works for me though. There may be others. Ma'am please keep checking, there are new ones coming out all the time. How about "Express Yourself"

[Beverley Sims]

I enjoy being a girl and Lola are two that spring to mind.

[Anna H]

How about "Walkin' After Midnight "....(Patsy Cline)

Seems a lot of CDer's do that sometimes...

lol!

[carahawkwind]

After my daughter forced me to listen to Let It Go enough times I started to think about in relation my years of holding back on my dressing and the rush of the release about being more open with it.

[Amy Fakley]

11 posts and no "dude looks like a lady" ?? !!

http://youtu.be/_MkCzjVDnPs

Lord, it's cringeworthy! Yet so rockin' ....

[belindaH]

Here is one for the Transmen

When You're a Boy David Bowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMhFyWEMlD4

[rachellegsep]

The chorus from Isis by the Go Go Dolls

[Melissa18]

Lay lady lay by Dylan
I'd love to be the lady laying across the big brass bed,
Adelaide

[Diane1950]

I'm with Cheryl Ann and Stacy, especially concerning Lou Reed...shaved her legs and then he was a she, I said hey, babe...

[sabrinaedwards]

My three favorite CD songs are: "I enjoy being a girl" from the play Flower Drum Song, "I feel pretty" from Westside Story, and "Man I feel like a woman" by Shania Twain. A close 4th is "I am women"
Love, Sabrina

[vallerie lacy]

And for us old girls, "Are You A Boy Or Are you A Girl" by the Barbarians. If the lyrics could only come true for me, "You maybe a boy, but you look like a girl.

[Dana does shopping]

Bowie ... Rebel Rebel

[Anna H]

oh dear....now i'm stuck at youtube. pretty much everything
i ever liked had some girly...or CD...aspect to it. heehee!

i bet nobody ever even heard of this one...

Jet Boy Jet Girl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9B2D2gwms0)

I miss Blondie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL1HKICB69s)....

I want this dress....Now!

Lovefool (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY1byx5RhXc)

I'll stop now....lol!

♥

[justmetoo]

I agree with a lot of those rock songs and such, especially the Madonna song.
A couple of older non-rock songs that resonate with me (even though I'm not usually into this kind of music, and they have nothing to do with CD/TG) are:
I've Gotta Be Me and I Did It My Way
and a different Sinatra song - These Boots Are Made For Walking ;)

[Leahann]

I've often wondered if Steven Tyler is one of us...

[Robin414]

I vote for "man I feel like a woman"...

[Cara Lacey]

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udyNr0pY6ak)by Traffic

And

Lola by The Kinks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVXmMMSo47s)

[chelyann]

"Man I feel like a woman" by Shania Twain

[lynnrichards]

Lisa Germano - You Make Me Wanna Wear Dresses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohldk_DzcLk

[daviolin]

I've often wondered if Steven Tyler is one of us...Yes Leahann, he is one of us. I read an article in Rolling Stone many years ago. Steve was talking about a shopping trip with his daughter. They were trying on dresses. That's good enough for me. Daviolin

Queen Bitch, David Bowie. Daviolin

[JayeLefaye]

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udyNr0pY6ak)by Traffic

And

Lola by The Kinks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVXmMMSo47s)

For me, these two...But just to be silly( and show my age):
"She wore an itsy bitsy teensy weensie yellow polka dot bikini"... Try to get THAT earworm outta your head.

Jaye

[bimini1]

Let it Go from Frozen really spoke to me when I finally heard it. Gotta put it away. Don't let the world know.
And of course the immortal Jimmy's Got A Little Bit Of B*t*c* In Him by Funkadelic.

[IdahoPanty]

Dancing Girl by ABBA

[Zylia]

The correct answer is Let It Go from the movie Frozen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk

I'm more of an Anna person myself though as opposed to Elsa.

[typhoidmary]

Placebo- Nancy Boy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBxuq_eWW94)

you'll never read this but ily Brian :o

[TxKimberly]

A song that cries out "I am . . . I exist . . . I am here . . . "


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wYpVy9W29M

[AndreaCD1963]

Born This Way - Lady Gaga

[Karren J]

Sara Bareilles - Uncharted

[carahawkwind]

I like this bit from Los Campesinos! "Songs About Your Girlfriend":

The last time I was there
She let me wear her clothes
She painted my lips red
So that we both ensured
I'd kiss her every inch
My God the girl looked like she'd burned

[samantha rogers]

What, no mention of We Exist, by Arcade Fire?
But I do agree about Let it Go

I can also say that at Gigis, where we go to dance, all the girls seem to really like "I kissed a girl" by Kate Perry. Lol

[MissTee]

Katy Perry "I kissed a girl." The ultimate dichotomy.

[Cara Lacey]

I almost forgot about Arnold Layne by Pink Floyd (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTFRq1hjtM)

Here's a Wikipedia article about the song. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Layne)

[mykell]

pink aerosmith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbBqBOSXlU
bizarre video....but the lyrics work for me.....

[Allison Chaynes]

Walkin Round in Women's Underwear by Bob Rivers.

[Hell on Heels]

How about this one, for those trying to fight the "fog"?
Brad Paisley--- I'm Still a Guy
Just sayin'
And one that kinda explains how I feel when the " fog " starts creating that
confusion...
The Wreckers --- Stand Still Look Pretty

Much Love,
Kristyn

[LilSissyStevie]

Girls And Boys - Blur (http://youtu.be/WDswiT87oo8)

because...

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love

[Teresa]

Maybe not my favourite but Queen's, " I want to break free ! " Linked to the video !
I really feel that way at the moment !!

[CindyR]

A different sort of Let It Go, U2 Bad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFG_YVpDd_s) has always been a go to song and i agree with Shania Twain's "Man I feel like a Women" and a personal inside joke, Lene Alexandra's My Boobs are OK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44f7BewqNqA)

[Cara Lacey]

And...of course... The Lumberjack Song by Monty Python's Flying Circus. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZa26_esLBE)

[CD Tammy]

Miranda Lambert's All Kind of Kinds


Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons
And dresses that he wore on Friday nights.
Phyllis was a pharmacist, a dab of that, a pinch of this
Concocted to suppress her appetite.
When the children were fiddlin' she'd slip 'em some Ritalin
And wait for Thomasina to arrive.
Cause ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds.
All kinds of kinds.

[Melissa_Rose]

Many of the lyrics of Mary Lambert's "secrets" seem to fit for me and maybe alot of us.


(Official)" on YouTube
Mary Lambert - Secrets (Official): http://youtu.be/cqqqV50zaAc

[IdahoPanty]

First time I heard that song, I like it.


Lisa Germano - You Make Me Wanna Wear Dresses.

[Angie G]

Well for me it's Angie The Stones.:hugs:
Angie

[Amanda L.]

for me it's Coldplay's "The hardest part"
Not that it's a girl infused song but because the line that states "the hardest part is letting go not taking part" to me speaks about giving up what you love. In this instance the inner turmoil we may feel about our cross dressing and who we are becomes calmed when we come out and accept ourselves by actively 'taking part' . When we deprive ourselves or are prevented from doing what we love the realisation that ' letting go' is actually much harder than accepting ourselves.

This has been my experience anyway. This song has had me sobbing my heart out, I'm not ashamed to admit.
I should add that the whole song resonates with me, have a listen to it and you may know what I mean.
Luv
Amanda

[Blossym]

I have stories on this, me being a musician and all...

I wrote and recorded a concept album about my struggles with my identity and the various stages of that struggle (personifying them as three individuals - Amber, Christine, and the Cold Man). I wasn't as talented of an musician then as I am now, but I am very proud of the compositions and lyrics that I produced. This thread makes me think about my own music :)

Also, I saw someone say "I Kissed a Girl." I performed this song with my current group at a show while completely dressed with my wife in the audience. At one point before the last chorus, I jumped off stage and gave my wife a huuuuge kiss. She and the audience ate it up!

Other than these memories though, another song that comes to mind is Green Day's "King For a Day."

[Helen_Highwater]

This song, "In the living years" by Mike and the Mechanics has always resonated with me and up to now it's always been as part of my drab life. Having revisited the lyrics I've realised that elements of it echo into a longing to how been more open about the person I am. The lines however

I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say

I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

If that comes on the radio when I'm driving it's all I can do to see where I'm going for the emotion that wells up inside me.

As for words that apply to our CD'ing

So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different date
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be O.K.

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

[sometimes_miss]

That would be Linda Ronstadt's 'Different Drum'. I'm pretty sure it was written by Mike Nesmith, of Monkees fame.
But to me, it always felt like the tale of two very different people, who didn't know just how different they were, or why, but one of them (me) could see that they would never be together because of one of those differences. And, looking back on my life, just as I guess that somehow I knew, every time, that every relationship I had, was doomed from the start, because I walked to the beat of a different drum than the girl thought that I did.
The lyrics, as best as I can remember them:

You and I travel to the beat of a different drum
Oh can't you tell by the way I run
Every time you make eyes at me
Wo-oh

You cry and moan and say it will work out
But honey child I've got my doubts
You can't see the forest for the trees

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
Try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying, I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

If you'd like to listen, Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVvRImExKc

[Donnagirl]

for me it's Coldplay's "The hardest part".....

This song has had me sobbing my heart out, I'm not ashamed to admit.
I should add that the whole song resonates with me, have a listen to it and you may know what I mean.


I'm hearing you GF.... This song is growing on me as well... I have more of the opposite reaction, it can really cheer me up as it reminds me of the goods we had!!! It's still your ring tone!

As for me, Shania Twains, 'Man I feel like a woman', is what sounds on my phone for everyone else, starting with, ''I wanna be free to feel the way I feel...' No room for confusion there, it's pretty much true for me.

I'm am, however, a tragic Carpenters fan....

Hugs,

Donna

[Adriana Moretti]

Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
'Cause it's OK to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading
But secretly you'd love to know what it's like
Wouldn't you
What it feels like for a girl


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYwgG2oyUbA

Its on my ipod for my runs on the treadmill xoxo

[heellover]

"Heart of Glass" by Blondie and "When You Walk in the Room by Karla Bonoff

Don't ask me why...but when I hear either of those songs I want to dress!:confused:

[dsmth]

A song by "Crash Vegas" called "Bury Her".... "If I could bury her with my two hands, it would be so much easier if I could bury her away..."

[Crystal Beth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ4XVaOQxtE
This does it for me! Song that gave me my name :battingeyelashes:

[lynda]

hi, im a hard rock person 60s and 70s eric clapton and cream,songs like ,drivin in my car, smoking big cigars, only time im happy when i play my guitar.i just love hard rock and blues no matter how im dressed.hugs love lynda

[Pink]

Well, I can't say this is positive for crossdressers but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWbKzkw3ssg

From wikipedia: The song's title character is a transvestite whose primary pastime is stealing women's clothes and undergarments from washing lines. According to Roger Waters, "Arnold Layne" was actually based on a real person: "Both my mother and Syd's mother had students as lodgers because there was a girls' college up the road so there were constantly great lines of bras and knickers on our washing lines and 'Arnold' or whoever he was, had bits off our washing lines."

So advice for any crossdressers: No matter how cute, no stealing! :)

[Kacey Black.]

All great songs listed here. I have a few that I personally love. Ray of light - Madonna, hot n cold - katy perry.... and I know it's weird, but "our lips are sealed - the go go's."

:)

[Robinkay]

My favorite

Susan Vega, as girls go

youtube.com/watch?v=-ea6CuN59EU&spfreload=10

[Jari]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dyihQtBes1I


To me, this song has always been about dressing - well the chorus anyway and certainly the overall feel of the song. i know it probably is about sonething else all together (drug addiction?) but its always resonated with me and made me think and inspired me. Sometimes i make things more difficult than they need to be I think.

Do you have songs that speak to you about your dressing? If so love to hear about

Jari

[JamieTG]

The song "I hope you dance" really touches me. The fear of rejection has made me live very timidly and unauthentic. I feel like I've missed so much by living a lie for so long and wish I could have had the courage be myself.

[Melody A]

Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go) by Garbage. Cranked it up in the car today on my way home from work.


Melody :battingeyelashes: