A line from the Monkees' song "Laugh" includes a line about boys looking like girls. Oliver Clothesoff from HereA song like this wasn't exactly a new thing.George from Vancouver, CanadaI'd like a quote from Vince Neil on how he feels knowing the song is about him, & how it evolved to Steven wanting to have sex with the dude looks like a lady, even after knowing it's a dude.Leroy Bubba JuddI’ve always jam now Aerosmith y’all are just bad ass!.Also in the video (around the 1:45 mark), we see a bride and groom from behind, and when the bride turns around, it's the bearded John Kalodner, the man who put the collaboration together for this song. The shots of girls added lots of appeal to the target audience, and also advanced the storyline, making us wonder about their true gender.īlurring the line of femininity was a theme of the clip, with Tyler at one point appearing with half his body dressed like a woman, the other half dressed like a man. It was a lot like the Van Halen's video for " Jump" in that it showed off their eccentric lead singer's stage moves while the other members looked like they were having a great time rocking out. cover of "Walk This Way" was the first video Steven Tyler and Joe Perry appeared in on MTV, and this was the second. The band got a lot of screen time, which was a good marketing move, since a lot of people had never seen them perform, which was their strong suit. The video was mostly a performance piece with random shots of girls and oddities mixed in. (Laughs) I don't know if anyone has looked deep enough into the song, but it's a very accepting song, and it has a moral that says never judge a book by its cover, or who you're going to love by your lover." So they accepted the lyric, and not only that, went for it. It's not like the polarized society we have now, because that was before gay people really started fighting for their rights and nobody cared about it and everyone thought that they could make fun of us. If you think about how far back that was, it was a very daring song to sing, and everyone went with it. He says, 'My funky lady, I like it, like it, like it like that.' And so he doesn't run out of there, he stays. Let's write this song.' So I talked them into the whole scenario of a guy that walks into a strip joint and falls in love with the stripper on stage, goes backstage and finds out it's a guy. He told us, "Joe (Perry) stepped in and said, 'I don't want to insult the gay community.' I said, 'Okay, I'm gay, and I'm not insulted. They weren't concerned about their masculinity, but were worried about offending the LGBT community - they didn't want to come off as jackass rock stars making fun of someone different.ĭesmond Child was the one who pushed it through. While Aerosmith is a very heterosexual band, they were secure enough to sing about wanting sex with the "Dude" even after they discover he is a man. So I grabbed onto that and I said, 'No, that's the title of the song.'" That's the true story of how that was born. So then they started making fun of him and started saying, 'That dude looks like a lady, dude looks like a lady, dude looks like a lady.' So that's how that was born.
He got the idea because they had gone to a bar and had seen a girl at the end of the bar with ginormous blonde rock hair, and the girl turned around and it ended up being Vince Neil from Motley Crue.
Steven (Tyler) was much more friendly, as he is, and was very generous, really, and showed me a song that they had started called 'Cruisin' for the Ladies.' I listened to that lyric, and I said, 'You know what, that's a very boring title.' And they looked at me like, 'How dare you?' And then Steven volunteered, sheepishly, and said that when he first wrote the melody he was singing 'Dude Looks like a Lady.' It was kind of a tongue twister that sounded more like scatting. They were going along with it to please John Kalodner, but they were not that happy about it.
When we spoke with Desmond Child in 2012, he told the story: "They had never written with an outside writer, and they were not happy to see me. Then Desmond Child worked with Kiss and came up with " I Was Made For Loving You," which got him a shot with Bon Jovi, resulting in the massive hits " You Give Love A Bad Name" and " Livin' On A Prayer." John Kalodner, who was an A&R executive at Aerosmith's label, convinced them to write a song with Child, and this was the result. Bands who wrote their own songs were loath to bring in outside writers, as they usually felt they could compose just fine on their own.
Like many rock bands, Aerosmith's songs were primarily written by their lead singer (Steven Tyler) and guitarist (Joe Perry).
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