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Billy Bragg has changed the lyrics of his slap song “Sexuality” in help of transgender rights.
In the original version of the song, Bragg sings: “And just because you're queer I won't turn you away/If you stick around I'm sure that we can find some common-ground” in support of same-sex attracted rights.
But, in recent reside performances of the ballad, he has changed “gay” to “they” in aid of transgender people.
Explaining why he chose to switch the lyrics, Bragg wrote on Twitter: “Times changed. Anyone born since the song was released would wonder why it’s a big deal to uncover common ground with a gay man. The front line now is transsexual rights.”
The folk singer and activist also said: “’Sexuality’ is a song about learning to respect difference. In , the LG community were marginalised by Aids and Section Now that we have homosexual marriage etc the tune needs updating and today, it’s the trans collective who are marginalised and need our allyship.”
Bragg also criticised women who did not support trans rights, stating: “TBH it breaks my heart to view people who claim to be feminists siding with people who would deprive them of their rights in a moment.”
Bragg recently releasedThe Million T 35 more albums featuring this track The Tube was one of the very first shows that launched Channel 4. It was a teenagers’ magazine show that leaned heavily on concise live performances by visiting pop-music artists. In between songs from the likes of the Thompson Twins and the Fall – for The Tube was nothing if not eclectic – there were sometimes little comedy bits, from punk poet Mark Miwurdz or from two entertaining girls called Dawn and Jennifer, whose schtick was that they tried to get into the studio every week without tickets. I remember tuning in one Friday night in and seeing a recent comic turn, a musical spoof of middle-class lefties who put on an overdone cockney accent and rant about &#;Fatcha&#;. Quite funny, I thought. It was only when I mentioned him to friends that they set me right. ‘He’s a earnest act’, they told me. ‘And Billy Bragg is his real name.’ Nevertheless, Billy Bragg has been providing quality laughs ever since. He is one of those working-class people that middle-class lefties simply adore, fitting exactly the first category of their two rather bizarre fantasised versions of their ‘inferiors’ – the cheeky but honest-as-the-day-is-long, salt-of-the-ear I&#;ve come to trust that empathy is the currency of popular tune. It&#;s what we present the listener in go back for their time &#; Billy Bragg Here at Three Hundred Songs, we&#;re a big fan of Billy Bragg. Sexuality is one of Billy&#;s biggest&#;by which I mean his very few&#;hits, having reached the lower half of the Top 40 help in It&#;s a joyous, upbeat song with some great lyrics, but it always struck me as somewhat dissociative in its identity. Bear with me. This is a lyric about sexuality, right? I&#;ve had relations with girls from many nations That checks out. Let&#;s see what the chorus has to say: Sexuality Definitely about sexuality, then. Something of a legal curveball at the end there, but let&#;s crack on: A nuclear submarine sinks off the coast of Sweden Wait, what? I had an uncle who once played Events take a shift for the abstract, Billy treating us to all best the rhyming couplets he can find in his songwriting stockpile of words: .
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