Today’s mood: mad about toxic masculinity in the lyrics of songs that were Oldies before I was born.
There’s a Beach Boys cover of the Crystals song, “Then He Kissed Me.”
In gender-flipping the lyrics, the song became, “Then I Kissed Her,” I guess because it would have been too passive for a male character to sing, “Then She Kissed Me.”
I’ve been mad about this for 23 years.