Aerosmith: Dude (Looks Like a Lady) Meaning
Song Released: 1987
Dude (Looks Like a Lady) Lyrics
Her picture graced the grime on the door
She a long lost love at first bite
Baby maybe you're wrong but you know it's alright
That's right
Backstage we're having the time
of our lives until somebody...
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#1 top rated interpretation:Actually, this song is about Vince Neil of Motley Crue. Steven Tyler saw Vince at a bar and said "hey! that dude looks like a lady!" and the rest of the band started laughing and then Steven Tyler had the idea to write a song about it. A few years later steven told Vince that the song was about him on a tv show about Vince Neil getting surgery, and made over for the new motley crue tour. Vince said that the song is about him after meeting someone who was very good friends with Aerosmith and helped Tyler write the song.
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#2 top rated interpretation:I think Steven Tyler wanted to have sex with Vince Neil. Tyler abandoned his daughter Liv and let Todd Rundgren raise her until she made the decision to call him Dad and change her name to Tyler. I despise both Steven and Liv for doing this.
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#3 top rated interpretation:The song is inspired by the gender-bending glam days of Motley Crue. Steven Tyler talks about seeing Vince Neil at a bar and thought he was a woman. It is mentioned in one of the band's bios.
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It is about Motley Crue singer Vince Neil. Steven Tyler thought "Dude looks like a lady". Many 80's bands of the time were wearing women's clothing and necklaces and styling their hair like females. When MTV came around image meant everything so bands started to play with image a lot. It mainly came from bands out of Los Angeles ("Hair bands"). Until Metallica and Guns N Roses came around and brought more power to their music and wore jeans and t-shirt's.
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He said some chick was hot but it turned out to be a guy so he had to save his ego. So Made the song.
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Bill Gallagher wrote it
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i lv their music. went to a concert in cincinati aug 2010. he openly admits his gay expeirences. read his book
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I have heard it was meant to jest at Motley Crue's lead singer, Vince Neil. Back then he looked much more feminine than he does now.
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Yeah, it is about Vince and all of the Crue. He wrote it cause they looked like girls (obviously) and they always used the word "dude." I guess no one told Aerosmith that they kinda looked like chicks at the time they wrote it.
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I heard it was a song about Poison, check out the video, Decline Of The Western Civilization, The Metal Years.
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I like to interpret this song in a fun way. I've heard it came about because of Motley Crue but to me the song is telling a story of how the singer is very attracted to what he thinks is a woman. When they've been messing around and he starts to undress her or however it goes down, she 'whipped out a gun and tried to blow me away' is referring to not only the fact that the 'woman' had male genitals, but the part 'tried to blow me away' is expressing the singers great surprise and shock at the sight. I think he actually changes sex events during the song, when he gets to the part where he says 'let me take a peek, dear' i think he's referring to the fact that from now on he wants to see it or be sure it's a woman before he makes any mistakes again.
I love this song, it doesn't mean Tyler is gay, it's just a fun story about what would most likely be a very awkward situation and he sees humor in it. It's very original and creative and remains my favorite rock song ever. -
the meaning of the phrase, "had the body of a venus" refers to the roman god of love and beauty. and VENUS does refer to a woman, so i think this song has a mixed meaning. Motley Crue, and actual woman, and steven is not gay, read the rest of his lyrics for songs he wrote. as far from gay as possible.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This is one of my favorite songs of all time. The music always gets me going. The lyrics are funny when taken at face value, but beneath that there is signifigance.
This song is about societies need to place boundaries, and clearly define gender relations. This causes pain and confusion for people of both sexes. Obviously, there was a strong attraction between the singer and "dude". I think it's most interesting that the song never expresses any change of heart or disappointment after the singer discovers that this lady is actually a dude. To me, this preaches the gospel of androgenous sexual identity and sexual relations. We should all be more balanced in our sexual exploits and identity. You go, Steven Tyler.
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