| Mac DeMarco – My Kind of Woman Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| If you were to simply LISTEN to this song, it may appear as just a love song. Mac DeMarco could be writing a song to articulate how grateful he is to have found someone who he perceives as the perfect woman; HIS kind of woman. However, I refuse to believe that this song does, indeed, have such a simple meaning, although it very well could. Instead, (based on ideas provided by the music video as well as my own creativity) I choose to believe that this song is about him finding this said perfect woman, but realizing that he must change himself in order to be with her. For example, the music video features Mac dressing in drag. My initial idea was that he was trying to impress a girl who was not sexually interested in men, explaining several verses such as: "You're making my crazy, really driving me mad//That's all right with me, it's really no fuss" and "I'm feeling so tired, really falling apart." It's quite exhausting to make an effort to change yourself, especially to the extent of changing your gender (although I believe that the music video only used that as a creative way to express changing yourself in general). On the other hand, I decided that in reality, the idea of changing your gender in order to impress someone who would not have otherwise been sexually attracted to you is ridiculous and extremely incorrect and could possibly cause a major controversy within the LGBT community, because in short....that's not really how these things work...Moving on, I pondered a different interpretation based on the music video. What if the song was not a love song at all? I picture this song as an internal conversation between a person and themselves. This is where I feel like the idea of dressing like a woman in he video can be taken more literally. Opposite of my idea before, this time, the song isn't about being exhausted from being a person you're not, but closer to being exhausted for being the person that you are. My apologies if this is not completely correct, but I can imagine that a transgender person is uncomfortable identifying as the gender they were born as, but possibly very afraid to express themselves for how they DO feel comfortable. Both can be exhausting realities. But like I said before I began to induce my perhaps extremely incorrect interpretations upon you, this song could be very uncomplicated, just a sweet love song as a toast the perfect woman with an artsy music video. I wouldn't know the truth. | |
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