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How Can I Sing Like A Girl?

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song nameHow Can I Sing Like a Girl?
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesFactory Showroom, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants
year1996
first playedApr. 25, 1996 (131 known performances)
run time4:32
sung byJohn Flansburgh (though not like a girl), John Linnell sings some backup

Trivia/Info

This song is as much about freedom of expression as it is about how to sing high. Its title was inspired by part of TMBG's live show where Flansburgh had to sing in a falsetto to reproduce the sound of a sped-up vocal from a recording called "She Was a Hotel Detective". And so the idea of having "the right to sing like a girl on demand" was born.
  • For eight years -- the time between the releases of Factory Showroom and The Spine -- this was the only TMBG song in B major. Prevenge has since joined it.
  • The line "I want to raise my freak flag" is almost an exact quote from the Jimi Hendrix song "If 6 Was 9". ("I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high!")

Song Themes

Falsetto, Forgetting, Remembering, Freaks, Gender Issues, Loneliness, Music, Questions, Windows

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