excellent point indeed!
K.
> I can see that if you over-analyze the lyrics, and just
> the lyrics, without listening to the music or singing, how
> you might come to that conclusion. But I'm a firm believer
> that when Jim writes a song, he's telling a story, and the
> person singing is telling the story from their perspective
> i.e.Male or Female.
>
> I personally can't analyze a section of lyrics and
> disregard everything else that's happening and come up
> with it being gender-confusing. The music, the lyrics, the
> emotion it's sung in, is all part of the story Jim is
> telling. You take one or two parts of that equation away,
> then for me, it doesn't work.
>
> That's why IACBTMN never worked with Meat Loaf singing it,
> because Jim purposely recorded it twice with 2 different
> females singing the part, because the story he's telling
> is from a females perspective. And that's why Total
> Eclipse is and will always be sung from a female's
> perspective, Jim chose it that way, and with that in mind,
> I just don't see it as gender confused.
>
>
> > because in a lot of the lyrics I can find both the male
> > and female perspective and it is not always clear to me
> > which part is which in this duet...
> >
> > hence gender confused... it could be both... it's almost
> > as if the song itself isn't sure it's coming from a male
> > or female perspective...
> >
> >
> > > > In a way... this is the most gender confused song ever...
> > >
> > > How can it be? it's clearly for the most part a duet of
> > > sorts and you clearly have the female singing her parts
> > > and the male singing his. With that in mind, there
> > > shouldn't be any gender confusion at all.
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