#k.d.lang

[danu2203]

STILL LISTENING TO WOMEN SONG

[vampyr-bite]

k.d.lang and cindy crawford on the 1993 cover of vanity fair, a year after lang came out.

[hatosaur]

late night thoughts because i'm broken (semi-inspired by @sarafroot pondering a band au; but also i had a dream abt this???):

post-canon ellie shaking her stage fright and taking up performing small shows in jackson. she takes requests! everyone loves it. lots and lots of k.d.lang and johnny cash and the like.

ellie teaching a tentative dina guitar and forming a little band between them. dina swears she has 0 rhythm but she loves ellie's kind encouragement and doin the little thing where she guides her hands from behind, so she keeps going.

[moth-tunes]

k.d. lang and the reclines- absolute torch and twang thoughts

i am going to break the format a bit and just talk about this album without going into specific songs. because I think I can use this album as a vessel to talk about my complicated relationship with country music.

this album is an album is an album i grabbed and "borrowed" (stole for my cd collection) from my father's CD collection, growing up country music was a massive part of my life, and as such I've always had a really strange complicated relationship with it. especially as i got more into exploring my identity as a teen.

i never listened to country music myself very much, but i grew up with it everywhere. sitting in the car, looking out the window on long car rides to my grandparent's house i'd be listening to country artists like lyle lovett, alison krauss, the early works by wilco, and of course the country artist classics. my dad liked a variety of music, but you can really tell country music was where he started. just like me and alternative rock.

as such i've always had a really soft spot for country music. it took me a lot of time to ultimately accept that, and it's been a slow process worthy of its own blog post. i think it's been difficult for me to process this music due to its general conservative undertones and i think that's what will forever will stop me from being fully into the genre.

but this is the first time in my life an album like this has come into my life and given me a slice of country i can really really dig into and claim as my own, which means so so much to me.

of course this album is no ingenue, her 1992 masterpiece. that album is one of my favorites of all time and i listened to it less than 6 months ago. but this album serves a different need to me.

as i heal and grow older, i've been trying my best to reconcile aspects of my background that are undeniable to me. be it my interest in country music, my enjoyment of sports, or my general tomboyish nature, as I get older and especially as I get deeper into my transition, I feel myself begin to understand the depths of which I differ from a lot of my fellow transgender women.

albums like this, to me, represent how even after transitioning, changing the core of who you are physically, you never really change. kd lang, to me, has been an important part of my acceptance of my girlhood and a reclamation of a genre I once thought I could never truly love.

thankfully she's a lesbian. and a really REALLY hot one at that.

i assume kd lang will never see this. but if I could personally thank her I would. music is so important, and i've been trying to reclaim country music for a hot second. and with an album like this, i think i can begin to reconcile with that.

[setthishouseablaze]

Cowboy Like Me

This song reminds me of the album by k.d.lang (country music singer/song writer, and lesbian) and the corresponding and equally queer as fuck film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

The idiom "Takes one to know one" is often used within the LGBT community in reference to gaydar; only queer folks have gaydar.

[echoes-lighthouse]

🦇 🍷 ⚰️ for whoever is on your mind!

Yayyyyy thank you!!! I'm going to do this for Mx. Death because I love her and I've got her on the brain <3

🦇 : when did you start shipping with your f/o ?

I've had a crush on her since I was fourteen! I drew some art of her and me and Mary Poppins on an OT3 date back at age 15, so I guess that was early selfshipping! I thought about her a lot... I started properly selfshipping with her when I joined this community though, so in 2022 ^-^

🍷 : what colors do you associate with your f/o ?

She's a black and white kind of gal, but violet and lavender also remind me of Death because our selfship has the 80s lesbian vibe that I associate with the Lavender Menace era of queer politics

⚰️ : what’s a song that reminds you of your f/o ?

Basically everything by k.d.lang for some reason?? Also 'Enjoy The Silence' by Depeche Mode: their vibe is a lot edgier than our relationship but I still like the music.

(ask game!! fun questions!)

[vimbry]

excuse the rough edit Especially the outro but, route 10 from pokemon black & white and k.d.lang's constant craving are just the same song right. this had to be on purpose right

[eldhuug]

5 and 6 for the spotify wrapped ask!!

5 and 6 on my spotify wrapped! 5. Love's Train by Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak If you are that special lover And love keeps you tied to another That's the way it goes on love's train 6. Miss Chatelaine k.d.lang and Orville Peck Ah Just a kiss, just a kiss I have lived just for this I can't explain why I've become Miss Chatelaine

[musingsofmaisie]

puts me in mind of a moment in my youth when I was with my friends and we were talking about k.d.lang and I said that I wasn't sure if I wanted to be her or do her. .

the queer experience of loving a male fictional character so much you want him (carnally) and want to be him (transgenderly)

[vampyr-bite]

participating in lesbian culture tonight (crying and listening to k.d.lang)

[danu2203]

k.d.lang & The Reclines - Sugar Moon

[makotoscoffee]

good morning🥵🤠