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* In their cover of Queen's "Sleeping on the Sidewalk", [[Los Lobos]] changed the lyric "Now I'm sleepin' like a princess" to "Now I'm sleepin' like a ki-ing". Not only did the change throw off the rhythm, but it changed the meaning of the lyric. The intent is to show that, like the protagonist of the fairy tale "The Princess in the Pea", the singer has become so spoiled that he would notice if there were a pea under his mattress.
* "Mr. Sandman" was originally performed by [[The Chordettes]] with the desired "dream" (a.k.a. love interest) being a "he." In [[The Four Aces]]' version (it is this version which is heard in ''[[Back to The Future]]''), the "dream" is a "she."
** This is also the case on the [[Blind Guardian]] cover. This is made somewhat weirder in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDFmNgmaEe0 music video], in which the band's singer is dressed in drag. Of course, according to the video the (not-so-desired) "dream" is apparently a bunch of [[Monster Clown
* An interesting variation: Damien Rice's "The Professor" is originally entirely sung by him, but there is a recording in which Lisa Hannigan sings the second half, changing the pronouns so that she is singing as the woman who the first half is talking about, so that the song is about both perspectives.
* The [[Jonas Brothers]]' cover of "[[The Little Mermaid|Poor Unfortunate Souls]]" removes the singer's gender ("I'm a very busy ''person''/And I haven't got all day.") It also replaces the gendered term "witch" with "kind of strange".
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* Tobias Sammet's Avantasia's cover of "Lay All Your Love on Me" by [[ABBA]] changes the "Now every woman I see" to "Now every man that I see."
* [[Alan Jackson]]'s cover of Charly McClain's 1981 hit "Who's Cheatin' Who" changes the pronouns so that it's a male singing about a female, instead of vice versa. (Yes, Charly is a female.)
* Most songs on Masaaki Endoh's cover series ENSON. These range from the still-working (''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Wing of Destiny
* [[They Might Be Giants]] played this straight with their cover of "Maybe I Know" by [[Lesley Gore]] (best known for "It's My Party").
* ("You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" has been covered by [[Rod Stewart]] as "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man"
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** She also pulled a [[Perspective Flip]] on [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]]'s "Pride and Joy": ''I'm his sweet little baby / He's my little lover boy''
* [[Ashley Tisdale]]'s cover of "[[Rick Astley|Never Gonna Give You Up]]," which had already gotten tons of [[Internet Backdraft]], replaced the lyrics "Any other guy" with "Any other girl," which doesn't really rhyme with "I."
* The [[Bow Wow Wow]] cover of "I Want Candy" is a straight-up gender flip, but it does make the line "I like candy when it's wrapped in a sweater" sound a bit
* ''DEV2.0'' flipped the genders on [[Devo]]'s "Girl U Want" to result in "Boy U Want." They didn't change any other words though, so you had a pre-teen girl sing a song about sexual arousal. Hilariously wrong.
** [http://www.aolwatch.org/backup/boyuwant.htm Not neccessarily so].
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