50ft Queenie Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ornotwhatever 

Cover art for 50ft Queenie lyrics by PJ Harvey

I've always taken the gender bending here not to be as simple as her having a huge cock, but a transferrance of the kind of language with which the anxious male appendage is validated through (size, mainly, but also fertility). My reason for this thinking is the term queenie, which is the name given to the queen scallop in the British Isles ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_scallop ). Clams and fannies have certainly enough in common for an extended metaphor. Fannies in the British sense, of course.

Anyway, yeah, I think to take this as her having a huge cock sort of misses the point that she is comically appropriating the exaggerated language men have used for their tackle to make a stronger point that she feels her ladyparts are no less strong and formidable: that they aren't a nothing to the man's something. And I think this because of bivalve molluscs. And also because it's funny to think of a 50ft fanny. Feel free to disagree!