![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leroy Bubba JuddI’ve always jam now Aerosmith y’all are just bad ass!.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Royalty Network, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc. Writer/s: Desmond Child, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler She like it, like it, like it, like that. So baby let me follow you down (let me take a peek dear)īaby let me follow you down (do me, do me, do me all night)īaby let me follow you down (turn the other cheek dear)īaby let me follow you down (do me, do me, do me, do me) She had the body of a Venus, Lord imagine my surprise. Sayin' love put me wise to her love in disguise Then she whipped out her gun and tried to blow me away! On Twitter, people have called Jenner’s comments “irresponsible.Baby maybe you're wrong but you know it's all right “It’s making things more dangerous for every one of us that isn't protected by having a bajillion dollars and being a public figure.” “Don't keep doing things that perpetuate the false idea that trans women are actually men,” one Reddit user wrote. Though a representative of Jenner’s told HuffPost that there are currently no actual plans for Jenner and Tyler to record a duet, the song’s history and Jenner’s comment are still igniting heavy pushback from the LGBTQ community. As a result, they experience “disproportionate violence and discrimination at the hands of both strangers and intimate partners,” according to the Human Rights Campaign. Trans women have long been subject to harmful misconceptions of this nature. After realizing who he was, Tyler and his fellow band members joked about how the “dude looked like a lady.”ĭesmond goes on to share that he talked Aerosmith into the song’s story concept of “a guy that walks into a strip joint and falls in love with the stripper on stage, goes backstage and finds out it's a guy.” Though Desmond argues that “Dude (Looks Like a Lady” is “a very accepting song,” many people take issue with the reading that the trans woman stripper is “tricking” her customers, not to mention the suggestion that a trans woman is actually a man. In an 2012 interview with SongFacts, songwriter Desmond Child, who worked with Aerosmith on the contentious track, reveals that the song was based on Tyler’s experience of once mistaking Mötley Crüe vocalist Vince Neil for a woman at a bar. Given the song’s backstory, the fact that it offends many people is hardly surprising. The song also plays on the idea that trans women intentionally deceive men or are “in disguise,” that they are unattractive or repulsive (as evidenced in one of the video’s first scenes where Steven Tyler recoils at the sight of a construction worker whose gender identity is purposely unclear), and at one point mixes pronouns, going from “Oh she like it” in one line to “Oh, he was a lady,” in the next. In general, the lyrics blur the lines between being a trans woman, a cross-dressing man, or a man who simply has “feminine” traits. However, despite the song’s mainstream success, Aerosmith has frequently been criticized for the lyrics and music video’s offensive insinuations about trans women. It also experienced a second wind in 1993, after it was included on the soundtrack for the Robin Williams cross-dressing comedy Mrs. Originally released in 1987, “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It made me feel good.”īut not every member of the LGBTQ community feels so warmly about the song. Jenner further explained to Kimmel that “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” became something of a personal anthem for her, “driving around in my little car with my little CD in there, whippin’ up the tunes and stuff. And I always used to take your song, ‘Dude (Looks Like a Lady)’.” “I said to Steven, ‘I have had some really, really tough times in my life. Upon seeing Tyler perform, Jenner said she was compelled to go backstage, say hello, and tell the musician how much one of his songs had meant to her.Īfter telling Kimmel that before she publicly came out as a trans woman in 2015, her life was full of “secrets” and “hiding,” she recalled her conversation with Tyler: Jenner revealed that the photo was taken “two nights ago” during a fundraiser in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live later that day, Jenner, who is a trans woman, told the story behind the snapshot and how she first came to view “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” as her “theme song.” One of my favorite songs!Ī post shared by Caitlyn Jenner on at 9:53am PDT And I are working on our duet for Dude Looks Like a Lady. ![]()
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