It is hardly a new thing for members of another gender to sing gender charged songs. Tori Amos did it quite a bit with one of her albums, and listening to her rendition of ’97 Bonnie and Clyde is creepy. But I have to wonder, why not bend the lyrics? I mean, I can see the “you are covering a song, dip-weed, you don’t change it,” but both in the case of Tori and of Jonathan, it feels like they are trying to bring the other genders take and feel to the song. So why not a song about the mother killing the father, and why not a song from a guy who was cheated on and dumped? And this isn’t me trying to be all hetro-normative either. I’d be fine if the singers were going for non hetro-normative takes, but at least in these two cases (and likely in others), it just doesn’t seem like what they were doing. Iunno, thoughts?