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* Averted by Electrelane in their [[Les Yay]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-RE7DcEv1s&feature=related cover] of "[[Bruce Springsteen|I'm On Fire]]".
* Joan Baez made several changes to "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (originally by The Band), but ''kept'' the line "Back with my ''wife'' in Tennessee, and one day ''she'' said to me ..."
* [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] have a couple of examples of playing this straight, but have also averted it with their cover of [[Buddy Holly]]'s "I'm Gonna Love You Too". Granted, the only line in the original that mentioned gender was "after all, another fella took ya", but leaving that in does change potential interpretations of the song: in the Buddy Holly version it's "another fella" as in "a man other than me", but having a woman sing that line makes it sound like both the subject of the song and the person he's currently with are men.
* Averted by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKULjplrgPs Claudette's cover of Billy Joel's ''Only the Good Die Young'']. This is also an example of [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]], as the song goes from being about a young man trying to get with a [[Catholic School Girls Rule|Catholic girl]] by suggesting that she not take religion too seriously to being about a girl encouraging a potential girlfriend to embrace her true self (''Come out, Virginia.''), not to let her faith get her down about it (''The stained glass curtain you're hiding behind never lets in the sun.'') and become part of the queer community that already accepts her. (''I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun.'')
* Xiu Xiu have a habit of covering songs without changing any of the pronouns. Considering singer Jamie Stewart is quite camp (and has written many songs of his own sung to men, both from male and female perspectives) this is almost always the least troubling example of [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]] in their versions however.
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