‘Lola’ is one of The Kinks’ most legendary songs, both for its unforgettable melody and its theme. In an interview with The Guardian, Moby described the song as “disgusting”, “transphobic” and “unevolved”, saying that he couldn’t listen to it anymore. Now, Dave Davies, guitarist of the British band, has responded, and he has very good arguments.
We remember that ‘Lola’, written by Ray Davies, talks about how a young man falls into the arms of a person who “walks like a woman but talks like a man” during a night out. “I’m very upset with Moby accusing my brother of being ‘unevolved’ or transphobic in some way,” Dave Davies wrote in an Instagram post. “I don’t want to embarrass him, but Moby should be careful what he says,” he continued.
Davies remembers that the song was inspired by the hippy theater group The Cockettes, who came from San Francisco, had trans members among their ranks and followed the band “on tour” as friends: “We liked them. Why is Moby being so rude over this simple song? We are not transphobes. “Why does he mess with us?” Davies asked himself.
Finally, he shared a letter from Jayne County, trans punk icon, who wrote to the Davies brothers to express her excitement about the song: “‘Lola’ will always be one of those songs that for me ‘broke the ice,’ so to speak.” County claimed that this was the song that introduced The Kinks to the “modern world, the real world”: “A world full of all kinds of people! Bisexuals, gays, trans, and not simply heterosexuals,” he concludes.
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