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"Lola" is a song originally written by Ray Davies and performed by his band The Kinks, originating in North London and taking the world by storm as a British Invasion band. Their song titled, "Lola" was released in 1970 and is about a man who realizes that the girl he had been dancing with the entire night in Soho London and had started to like is actually a man, too. He reacts horribly at first but then accepts it and "she" takes his hand by the end of the song.
Ray Davies has written the song in first person but it is not an event that took place in his life. He was inspired by his band manager who had gone through this scenario and wrote a song based on his point of view.
The rhyme scheme of the song is not consistent. The first verse is A-B-B-C-B-B whereas the chorus is A-A-B-C-C-B and so forth because the writer has deployed different rhyme schemes for each section of the song. There is also use of alliteration such as "Oh my Lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola" and repeated use of that in between and at the end of verses.
The introduction starts off with the man meeting Lola at a club in Soho where she asks him to dance. The second is when he starts noticing the characteristics that confuse him about her. Some of these include, " When she squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine" and "I'm not dumb but I can't understand why she walked like a woman and talked like a man." Here he has now become confused by how she behaves. Here, the person listening to the song gets a hint or simply wonders why Lola is like that. The next verse describes how they had drank too much cheap champagne and were dancing in the electric candlelight and when Lola "picks me up and sat me on her knee/ She said dear boy won't you come home with me?" immediately implies that there is indeed something wrong. A woman would not simply pick a man up and make him sit on her knee.
Upon realizing that Lola is actually a man, he pushes her away at first but then he looks at her and she at him and he states, "girls will be boys and boys will be girls/ It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola." Clearly, he sees Lola as an exception now. The conclusion at the end of the song is "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." This is where the song ends with the feel that he has accepted Lola.
The song's genre is folk rock, and the voice is mellow. just as if he is telling a story about what took place one night at a club in Old Soho. He recalls how he felt about Lola at first, his flabbergasted reaction when he found out, and lastly how he disregarded it and still remained with her.
"Lola" is a song originally written by Ray Davies and performed by his band The Kinks, originating in North London and taking the world by storm as a British Invasion band. Their song titled, "Lola" was released in 1970 and is about a man who realizes that the girl he had been dancing with the entire night in Soho London and had started to like is actually a man, too. He reacts horribly at first but then accepts it and "she" takes his hand by the end of the song.
Ray Davies has written the song in first person but it is not an event that took place in his life. He was inspired by his band manager who had gone through this scenario and wrote a song based on his point of view.
The rhyme scheme of the song is not consistent. The first verse is A-B-B-C-B-B whereas the chorus is A-A-B-C-C-B and so forth because the writer has deployed different rhyme schemes for each section of the song. There is also use of alliteration such as "Oh my Lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola" and repeated use of that in between and at the end of verses.
The introduction starts off with the man meeting Lola at a club in Soho where she asks him to dance. The second is when he starts noticing the characteristics that confuse him about her. Some of these include, " When she squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine" and "I'm not dumb but I can't understand why she walked like a woman and talked like a man." Here he has now become confused by how she behaves. Here, the person listening to the song gets a hint or simply wonders why Lola is like that. The next verse describes how they had drank too much cheap champagne and were dancing in the electric candlelight and when Lola "picks me up and sat me on her knee/ She said dear boy won't you come home with me?" immediately implies that there is indeed something wrong. A woman would not simply pick a man up and make him sit on her knee.
Upon realizing that Lola is actually a man, he pushes her away at first but then he looks at her and she at him and he states, "girls will be boys and boys will be girls/ It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola." Clearly, he sees Lola as an exception now. The conclusion at the end of the song is "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." This is where the song ends with the feel that he has accepted Lola.
The song's genre is folk rock, and the voice is mellow. just as if he is telling a story about what took place one night at a club in Old Soho. He recalls how he felt about Lola at first, his flabbergasted reaction when he found out, and lastly how he disregarded it and still remained with her.
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