Uh ya it does.
I'm still about Fuckmylife666 for the heavy dysphoria days where I just wanna commiserate over it though. Keeps the mind level, ya know?
Gonna have to say creep tbh, pablo honey is absolutely their least inspired album and creep is absolutely over played but my god does the song feel like it speaks to feelings of both dysphoria and internalised transphobia
That’s a cool way of looking at that song. I also think Let Down has some transness to it, specifically the line “one day I am gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction” it really lends to the metamorphosis aspect of transition
It’s Bodysnatchers for me.. I know it’s meant to be about being an alien inhabiting a human or whatever, but a lot of the lyrics also resonate deeply with my feelings of dysphoria and internalized transphobia
Okay strap in for a song thats gonna be quite a bit of a stretch but hey I made the association.
Would that I by Hozier.
My introduction to this song was from that one tiktok audio where a voice goes "Oh how I love being a woman!" Followed by the start of the song. That is what initially gave the association, followed by the tune of the song being something I'd dance around in a field of flowers to. Now dancing in a field of flowers is always something I imagined myself doing as a woman, and is something I associated with my trans journey before I discovered the song
Now the song itself describes lovers as trees that he takes shelter under, with new love for another being the fire that burns down his past loves. Later on after discovering the meaning, I still associated this song with being trans, recontexualizing my "past love" as being a man, not that I loved it, but in that it was something I took shelter under, not knowing there was anything else out there. Then I found out that I could just... be a woman instead, and that click, that realization ignited a new love. A fire that burnt down the tree I sheltered under for so long, the one that held me to an identity as a man..
Anyways sorry for the long explanation, i hope you enjoyed this little ramble ^^'
"Dig Me Out" by Sleater Kinney. "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle" by Nirvana. "Dumbest Girl Alive" by 100 gecs.
I'm gonna say, "Holland 1945" by Neutral Milk Hotel, too. I know it's very 4chan/RYM indie boy core music, but it was also my first weird album in high school that resonated a lot to me, and I ended up blasting it in the car radio on the drive home the day I came out as transgender. It's specifically the line, "And now we must pack up every piece / of the life we used to love, just to / keep ourselves at least enough to carry on." Resonates like crazy to me
Live-in Skin by the Foo Fighters
It's fundamentally about being genuine, a true self, even if it makes you jaded or cynical towards your detractors.
"And I can't change back for you;
I will not change back for you;
I must live in skin that's new;
I'm a livid skin that's new"
and post chorus repeats "I'm amounted" which is to say I'm worth something (as I am) and don't have to fit a mold.
It's a damn good song on an album that I first listened to around the time "I wish I'd wake up as a girl" first started for me.
Boys Will Be Girls - We Are The Union |
Paralytic States - Against Me |
True Tans Soul Rebel - Against Me |
Short Circuit - We Are The Union |
Morbid Obsessions - We Are The Union |
Who's That Girl - ELFL |
Reflection - Lea Salonga (from Mulan)
I've got plenty more, but these are a few from my playlists.
Edit: Sorry, on phone so I separated them the best I can atm.
I've heard people say that this was Freddie Mercury's coming out song (as bisexual)
"Mama, I just killed a man" referring to the "straight" version of himself.
It gave the song a whole new meaning to me
That song contains dysphoria, voice exploration/training and conversion therapy ending in glass-shattering pitch. These are not characteristic of gay/bi men, these are the transgender cues in this song. Freddie's use of make-up, flamboyant wardrobe and crossdressing aren't to be dismissed either. I'm pretty sure that the man in "just killed a man" means male gender identity.
Note: Depression, suicidal ideation and social issues are present in all minorities so these don't point to trans in particular, these just complete the big picture.
I think of the song as an encrypted mesage that only people with required experience can fully decipher and enjoy on whole another level and "connect" with the author, while flying under the radar of regular people (even bigots). They can still enjoy the music, get goosebumps and whatnot, but their perception of it is dry as a desert.
𝑀𝑎𝑛! 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛! By Shania Twain. The song came out when I was 18 and it really hit me hard. Took me another 22 years to come out, but I knew who I really was.
When I was a kid, I would only ever admit to listening to punk, grunge, metal, that kind of stuff, and those are my favourite bands, but I remember when Christina Aguilera released Beautiful, it just absolutely destroyed me. I'd sit transfixed whenever the video came on (not sure who remembers the video, but there was a particular person in the video that I was, fOr SoMe ReAsOn, fascinated by ). I just played it now, and started crying for the first time in a very long time.
Also 4 Non Blondes, What's Up?
Oh my God yes...
"I don't want the world to see me
Because I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am"
That sounds like coming out as trans to someone in a nutshell.
Right?? I've known this song for many years and I always loved the melodic tune to it. Im not a person that often pays too much attention to lyrics. And when I focused on the words I was like omg wth. Like whether or not this song is written by a trans person or from a perspective of a transperson, it just relates so much.
There are certain songs I associate with my personal experience of being trans but don't necessarily have anything to do with transness in reality. Songs like "She Likes a Boy - Nxdia" which is about sapphic unrequited love but with the lyrics "She likes a boy, And I'm not a boy" ends up being super affirming for a gay trans gal like me 💗
The entirety of Against Me!'s *Transgender Dysphoria Blues* album, outside of Osama bin Laden as the Crucified Christ and maybe Two Coffins. Plus some other songs sprinkled throughout AM!'s discography that Laura Jane Grace wrote about her dysphoria (e.g., Searching for a Former Clarity).
I mean it’s kinda somehow become a tradition for me to listen to PLUTO by Melanie Martinez whenever I get my puberty blocker injections so i’d say that
"[Cherry Lips (Go, Baby, Go!)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy1LdAaGASw)" by Garbage
"[Who I Am](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzk44YbqOz0)" by Mel C
There's a couple. The Middle by Jimmy Eat World is the song responsible for cracking my egg. A Praise Chorus too. The whole Bleed American album gives me euphoria. Then there's Born A Girl by Manic Street Preachers. And Settle Down by Kimbra isn't about being trans, but the song has immaculate vibes and the video is GOALS bc she looks incredible in it
Boy - Passion Mango.
The monotonous progression that seems to stand still and go back and forth, it's exactly how I felt leading up to my transition starting.
The lyrics "will I ever know? I guess I won't. It's always getting old. Why do I feel like I didn't know?"
Not being sure if I was even going to go through with the transition or something worse instead. Giving up on thinking about it sometimes, because it's too difficult a question to bare whole stuck in the wrong life. Wondering how and why I didn't realize it sooner. Wondering if not always knowing for sure makes me less trans or less of a woman.
"you sit and watch me choke, but somehow I still needed you, though. You pushed my back against the wall, and that is when I needed you most"
Telling my dad. He just watched me cry and got annoyed before I even said anything. I needed him to listen, he didn't want to. I wanted him to understand, he still hasn't tried. He told me I need to look into it more, even though I have been for years, which I explained, he didn't believe me or care.
Sorry to dump, it just reeks of that time in my life, and it's helped me cope and feel it out. I hope it does the same for anyone reading this who's felt the same way. 💕
I do just love Cabinet Man and a few of his other songs. I listened to them a lot while figuring a lot of gender stuff out, and so for me I'll always associate them with starting to be myself.
[This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_9pPlALzN4). Reborn, from Rémi Gallego, featuring Nikki Simmons.
The lyrics are in the description. Probably the most trans-coded shit I've heard in a while (though it was most likely not the intent when the song war written).
[Cherry Lips](https://youtu.be/Cy1LdAaGASw) and [Bleed Like Me](https://youtu.be/r21Qza6vadU), both by Garbage
Bleed like me, the first verse is anorexia ("hi, I'm Alexis, and I'm..."), second: "Chris is all dressed up and acting coy / painted like a brand new Christmas toy / he's trying to figure out if he's a girl or he's a boy ..." (Third is self harm...)
Dresden Dolls have a song called 'Half Jack" that sounds to me like a song about being transgender but I know it wasn't written for that. One of my favorite songs by them.
This one is really out there, but HAPPPPY Song by SOOOO. I have always resonated with the idea of forcing myself to be happy in a body I was unhappy to be in (of course I'm working on that now). The rage and anger expressed in the song are just so perfect and aaahhhh. I love that song.
Hold up, I've made a whole playlist just for this moment let me pull some highlights...
One of the Boys - Katy Perry
Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande
Wig In A Box (both movie and Broadway)
Skin - Beartooth
Redecorate - Twenty One Pilots: this is the song. Its about something else entirely, but it's easy to interpret gender identity and redecorating self. Idk why it just got to me when it came out it's so god and is not popular/similar to other TOS songs. Also it helps replace "They" wirh "I" in the chorus (which is what I thought it was for a while lol)
Shit now I got a lot of songs to listen to...
Sweet Cis Teen by Dazey and the Scouts is one of my favorites recently. Disclaimer that the singer is AFAB so a couple of the lyrics are less relatable for MtFs but for the most part I found it very powerful how the trans experience is sort of universal regardless of your AGAB
Also (specifically for non-binary trans folks):
* The Code - Nemo
* They / Them / Theirs - Worriers
While this one is not really about a trans person (per the band's singer), I do really like Somebody Told Me by The Killers, and have heard others say they related to it too (probably more so nonbinary people again... take a guess what my gender is lol)
Barbie Girl - Aqua
That's because that was the song I literally voice trained on when I was a kid in the 90s. Five years of singing that song thousands and thousands of times is exactly why I sound like this today: [https://voca.ro/1dHbkRVKmKM2](https://voca.ro/1dHbkRVKmKM2)
Heel Turn 2 by The Mountain Goats.
I did NOT expect a song that, on it's surface, is about professional wrestling to be *such* a moving TrAnthem. It's all about doing what you know you need to do in order to live even if it's something that people in society hate you for.
How Can I Sing Like A Girl and Brontosaurus by They Might Be Giants.
from HCISLAG:
"From the watchtowers I've been spotted/fingers pointing at my mouth/spotlights turn and swivel towards me/but I dare not make a sound"
"I want to raise my freak flag/higher and higher and/I want to raise my freak flag/and never be alone"
from brontosaurs:
"It had been going so well/and then I broke my egg shell/and entered the world as a brontosaurus"
"You want to leave an impression you want to express an emotion you crave some attention/and for this transgression you'll be repaid when/you fall and you fail and sink into depression"
How Can I Sing Like A Girl is supposedly about one of the singers trying to learn to. well sing like a girl for a different song but also its so blatantly transgender AND its on the same album as SEXXY a song about transgender sex that I have a hard time believing its not intentional. SEXXY is also good but its less about the experience of being trans so doesnt go on this list
Yoshi's Island by Glass Beach!
I've been listening to it a lot recently
Each verse of it is about different people in your life reacting to your transition.
It's very blatantly a trans song, I have no idea why they named it after a Nintendo game.
"Saturday, Sunday" and "Rest to Get Better" by Transit have been big to me. Honestly, there are quite a few songs on "Joyride" that I see in a different light. I fell in love with Transit the first moment I heard them, I couldn't put my finger on *why*, I just knew I adored the music. Shortly after I accepted I was trans and decided to transition, I came across Transit's vocalist right here on Reddit... and found out she was transgender, and that there were alot of trans themes in Transit's music. *That* was when everything clicked on why Transit resonated with me the way they did.
So I always think of Transit and Ella Meadows when it comes to my transition. Thank you wholeheartedly u/Astarisbored 🩵🤍🩷
Voices by Motionless in White
Live they slap a pride flag on the lyrics with a spiral and Chris (Lead Singer) has said it's for the LGBTQ+ fans, so I associated with it heavily 🙂
Please don't be mad at me for these answers but.
*Turn the Page* by Bob Seger (the Metallica cover is also ok) and *The Lumberjack Song* by Monty Python's Flying Circus. *The Lumberjack Song* is transphobic but at the end of the day i can't help but desperately want to make a trans-affirming cover of the song someday
Gonna throw out some lesser-known ones here
Explicitly about being trans:
- TV Head - Elliot Lee
- Build-A-Bear - Maggie Brewster
Not exactly about being trans, just resonates well:
- Two Faced - Rosendale
- I miss her and I blame you - MALINDA
I found [this song](https://youtu.be/fzcQxRr1cSw?si=hJYCPpk5h1Ok-qGP) around month 4 when I was having a bad time, it sort of became a go to song when I feel bad.
Conor and Jay "Change". I heard the edited version of the song on GTA 3 back in 2001. I was still in the closet in those days. But, I immediately connected that song to the idea of transitioning. I remember when I would sigh and say to myself "I wish that I could make that change". Fast forward to the present day and I did it! It's pretty trippy to think about.
Poster of a girl by metric always wanted to be the girl in the song. Am I a girl.by poppy too, came out to my friend accidentally by sending her a snap and that song was on in the picture
Ring of Keys from the Fun Home musical. She was singing about discovering her first lesbian, but the simultaneous gender euphoria is palpable.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFLYEyuz0Pk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFLYEyuz0Pk)
“God must hate me” by Catie turner
“i cant wait to be pretty” by Cate
those songs r both more so abt body dysmorphia but they just make sense for dysphoria as well. my experience as a trans woman so far can definitely be summed up by those songs, it’s sad but super true for me.
My Spotless Mind by Current Joys
The song is actually about the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" but I always took the 2 people in the song as actually being one person who is in denial about being and doesn't want to accept that they are trans but then the bridge before the outro is them accepting it realising that the life they want is the "other person's".
"When I walk through your life
Coming close to everything I like
It's a great song and I really recommend the Audiotree version specifically.
I'm very much a fan of Nick Rattigan and his various projects (Surf Curse (most people would know them for Freaks), Current Joys, Franco Years, etc.)
The village by wrabel of course
I think the last time I cried was when he released the MtF version of it, it is such a beautiful song
I didn't cry, but I was extremely shocked because I do have a transphobic Uncle John
Damn Uncle John got called out then
lol me too, it is a masterpiece
https://youtu.be/tilsrO-3gcQ Original https://youtu.be/Xtq3UVQQ2rE mtf version
I cried like a baby when I first heard that one Abstract Art by wrabel has been my theme song for a while too
Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me! or The Show by Lenka (IDK how but it does somehow resonate that way with me)
Was looking for this! I mean mine is True Trans Soul Rebel, but it's literally the next song lol
Paralytic States hits hard too
Uh ya it does. I'm still about Fuckmylife666 for the heavy dysphoria days where I just wanna commiserate over it though. Keeps the mind level, ya know?
fuck. i had heard transgender dysphoria blues but not this song. "in her dysphoria's reflection she still saw her mother's son". FUCK.
Fuckmylife666! is probably my fav off the album
FuckMyLife666 rocked my world!
LAURA JANE GRACE MENTIONED AAAAAAA I LOVE THAT WOMAN
Yes to Lenka!!
Doll Parts, by Hole
Ughh, I love that song so much. Another to put on my 'I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN' playlist.
Fuck yes. AND OOOONE DAY YOU WILL ACHE LIKE I ACHE.
SHE WAS RIGHT
“I want to be the girl with the most cake” fr
Seconded
https://youtu.be/RD9xK9smth4
*Gestures at Sophie's discography * 😭 Immaterial the most, I guess
Yes Sophie 😭😭😭😭😭😭💙🫂 she was taken from us way too fucking soon it still hurts It’s Okay to Cry and Infatuation both belong in here too
Just added Pink Pony Club to my list of affirming songs
So much Chappell Roan. Feminenimnom, Good Luck Babe, Naked In Manhatten…
The entire damn album. We all agree it’s no skips right?
I cry every time.
Saaaame. My girlfriend cries to casual because she’s finally not being treated like that and then that made me cry and that album is so FUCKING GAY
Came to the comments to say this! Pink Pony Club has been my anthem while I’ve been accepting myself as a trans woman 💛
The Town Inside Me I / Me / Myself Rule #4 - Fish in a Birdcage RISK, RISK, RISK!
YES SOMEONE ELSE WHO LISTENS TO THE TOWN INSIDE ME!! That's one of the songs I associate it with too
It is like the MtF theme song at least on like tiktok and in like the meme MtF territories
Holy crap! Yes! Fish in a Birdcage is so good!! So happy someone else listens to that song, it hits home so hard!
JHARIAH AND WILL WOOD SPOTTED
WILL WOOD IS THE GOAT. (Honestly I/me/myself is one of if not my favourite song by will)
FISH IN A BIRDCAGE YES I LOVE THEM
Ironically id say like a weed naturally as a matter of course is something i associate with it too (I have learned trans people HAVE INSANE NEUTRAL)
Honestly, given my uncertainty over the future, Transgender by Crystal Castles
Dumbest girl alive by 100 gecs
all 100 of the gecs
All of hyperpop honestly. 100 gecs, arca, sophie, charli xcx
the moment I finally affirmed myself in my identity was also the moment that 100 gecs clicked for me
I am the stupidest woman in the world.
real
The Ocean by Against Me! and Older And Taller by Regina Spektor
Gonna have to say creep tbh, pablo honey is absolutely their least inspired album and creep is absolutely over played but my god does the song feel like it speaks to feelings of both dysphoria and internalised transphobia
That’s a cool way of looking at that song. I also think Let Down has some transness to it, specifically the line “one day I am gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction” it really lends to the metamorphosis aspect of transition
God yes Let Down always hit me so hard and this is so accurate
It’s Bodysnatchers for me.. I know it’s meant to be about being an alien inhabiting a human or whatever, but a lot of the lyrics also resonate deeply with my feelings of dysphoria and internalized transphobia
Okay strap in for a song thats gonna be quite a bit of a stretch but hey I made the association. Would that I by Hozier. My introduction to this song was from that one tiktok audio where a voice goes "Oh how I love being a woman!" Followed by the start of the song. That is what initially gave the association, followed by the tune of the song being something I'd dance around in a field of flowers to. Now dancing in a field of flowers is always something I imagined myself doing as a woman, and is something I associated with my trans journey before I discovered the song Now the song itself describes lovers as trees that he takes shelter under, with new love for another being the fire that burns down his past loves. Later on after discovering the meaning, I still associated this song with being trans, recontexualizing my "past love" as being a man, not that I loved it, but in that it was something I took shelter under, not knowing there was anything else out there. Then I found out that I could just... be a woman instead, and that click, that realization ignited a new love. A fire that burnt down the tree I sheltered under for so long, the one that held me to an identity as a man.. Anyways sorry for the long explanation, i hope you enjoyed this little ramble ^^'
candy says - the velvet underground
"Dig Me Out" by Sleater Kinney. "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle" by Nirvana. "Dumbest Girl Alive" by 100 gecs. I'm gonna say, "Holland 1945" by Neutral Milk Hotel, too. I know it's very 4chan/RYM indie boy core music, but it was also my first weird album in high school that resonated a lot to me, and I ended up blasting it in the car radio on the drive home the day I came out as transgender. It's specifically the line, "And now we must pack up every piece / of the life we used to love, just to / keep ourselves at least enough to carry on." Resonates like crazy to me
Cherry Lips by Garbage
I love Garbage! I thought of this one too
Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me, for obvious reasons
True trans soul rebel specifically:-)
It was always ‘Reflection’ from Mulan for me ❤️
I like Madonna what it feels like for a girl
Your Woman- White Town
I heard that as a kid and understood it, when those around me didn't. Should have known then. I was so stupid.
Am I A Girl by Poppy is the pure genderfluid/bigender anthem. It resonates so well with me and makes me love mother even more.
On my playlist already! She's got some great tunes.
Live-in Skin by the Foo Fighters It's fundamentally about being genuine, a true self, even if it makes you jaded or cynical towards your detractors. "And I can't change back for you; I will not change back for you; I must live in skin that's new; I'm a livid skin that's new" and post chorus repeats "I'm amounted" which is to say I'm worth something (as I am) and don't have to fit a mold. It's a damn good song on an album that I first listened to around the time "I wish I'd wake up as a girl" first started for me.
Boys Will Be Girls - We Are The Union | Paralytic States - Against Me | True Tans Soul Rebel - Against Me | Short Circuit - We Are The Union | Morbid Obsessions - We Are The Union | Who's That Girl - ELFL | Reflection - Lea Salonga (from Mulan) I've got plenty more, but these are a few from my playlists. Edit: Sorry, on phone so I separated them the best I can atm.
Forced Gender Reassignment - Cattle Decapitation
What Was I Made For? by Billie Eillish
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
I've heard people say that this was Freddie Mercury's coming out song (as bisexual) "Mama, I just killed a man" referring to the "straight" version of himself. It gave the song a whole new meaning to me
That song contains dysphoria, voice exploration/training and conversion therapy ending in glass-shattering pitch. These are not characteristic of gay/bi men, these are the transgender cues in this song. Freddie's use of make-up, flamboyant wardrobe and crossdressing aren't to be dismissed either. I'm pretty sure that the man in "just killed a man" means male gender identity. Note: Depression, suicidal ideation and social issues are present in all minorities so these don't point to trans in particular, these just complete the big picture. I think of the song as an encrypted mesage that only people with required experience can fully decipher and enjoy on whole another level and "connect" with the author, while flying under the radar of regular people (even bigots). They can still enjoy the music, get goosebumps and whatnot, but their perception of it is dry as a desert.
huh. I love that song but I never interpreted it as having trans themes, but now that you mention it I can totally see it.
"Promiseland" by MIKA
Cut My Hair by Big Theif
Ooooh nice choice, Big Thief is based
𝑀𝑎𝑛! 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛! By Shania Twain. The song came out when I was 18 and it really hit me hard. Took me another 22 years to come out, but I knew who I really was.
Lola by the Kinks. It was one of my favorite songs when my egg was reaching its final stages of cracking
When I was a kid, I would only ever admit to listening to punk, grunge, metal, that kind of stuff, and those are my favourite bands, but I remember when Christina Aguilera released Beautiful, it just absolutely destroyed me. I'd sit transfixed whenever the video came on (not sure who remembers the video, but there was a particular person in the video that I was, fOr SoMe ReAsOn, fascinated by ). I just played it now, and started crying for the first time in a very long time. Also 4 Non Blondes, What's Up?
Royal Blue Walls by Jane Remover
The Town Inside Me by Bridget from Guilty Gear
Iris by googoo dolls
Oh my God yes... "I don't want the world to see me Because I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am" That sounds like coming out as trans to someone in a nutshell.
Right?? I've known this song for many years and I always loved the melodic tune to it. Im not a person that often pays too much attention to lyrics. And when I focused on the words I was like omg wth. Like whether or not this song is written by a trans person or from a perspective of a transperson, it just relates so much.
Crossing a Line by Mike Shinoda. Listened to that song a lot when I was coming out.
Gender is Boring by She/Her/Hers
Burn - NiN Liked it in my old life for various reasons but the first time i heard it post-egg was “oooooohhhhh - that makes more sense now..”
Idk what any of these songs are I like hip hop. I guess uh. Rigamortis No actually Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
Katy Perry, firework Scene queen, pink panther Marina, bubblegum bitch And "warning", a poem by Jenny Joseph. All trans & life goals.
Vanity Fair by Mr. Bungle
“Show Yourself” by Evan Rachel Wood and Idina Menzel, from the Frozen II soundtrack.
well if we're doing disney then "Reflection" from Mulan is the penultimate mtf song. "Who is that girl I see staring straight back at me"
Hannah Montana "Best of both worlds"
Frankenstein by Rina Sawayama
There are certain songs I associate with my personal experience of being trans but don't necessarily have anything to do with transness in reality. Songs like "She Likes a Boy - Nxdia" which is about sapphic unrequited love but with the lyrics "She likes a boy, And I'm not a boy" ends up being super affirming for a gay trans gal like me 💗
Candy says, velvet underground
Disguise, by Motionless in White It reminds me the cost of boy-moding constantly, like wearing a mask.
Duvet by Boa
Cure for me - AURORA
The Ocean by Against Me
Switch by Siouxie and the Banshees
The entirety of Against Me!'s *Transgender Dysphoria Blues* album, outside of Osama bin Laden as the Crucified Christ and maybe Two Coffins. Plus some other songs sprinkled throughout AM!'s discography that Laura Jane Grace wrote about her dysphoria (e.g., Searching for a Former Clarity).
See Emily Play Pink Floyd
Most tracks from from *Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides* by SOPHIE, but especially *It's Okay to Cry* and *Immaterial*.
Walk on the wild side " lou reed"
I mean it’s kinda somehow become a tradition for me to listen to PLUTO by Melanie Martinez whenever I get my puberty blocker injections so i’d say that
None. Don’t really think about my own transness while listening to music.
"[Cherry Lips (Go, Baby, Go!)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy1LdAaGASw)" by Garbage "[Who I Am](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzk44YbqOz0)" by Mel C
Loaded guns and no love like Christian hate by Tx2. Also under pressure by Queen and David Bowie.
There's a couple. The Middle by Jimmy Eat World is the song responsible for cracking my egg. A Praise Chorus too. The whole Bleed American album gives me euphoria. Then there's Born A Girl by Manic Street Preachers. And Settle Down by Kimbra isn't about being trans, but the song has immaculate vibes and the video is GOALS bc she looks incredible in it
Paracetamol by Declan Mckenna
I cried the first time I heard the village mtf version by wrabel
Am I A Girl? by Poppy is pretty explicit about being non-binary.
left arm of life by black dresses for something less blatantly trans, The Witness by everything everything
Boy - Passion Mango. The monotonous progression that seems to stand still and go back and forth, it's exactly how I felt leading up to my transition starting. The lyrics "will I ever know? I guess I won't. It's always getting old. Why do I feel like I didn't know?" Not being sure if I was even going to go through with the transition or something worse instead. Giving up on thinking about it sometimes, because it's too difficult a question to bare whole stuck in the wrong life. Wondering how and why I didn't realize it sooner. Wondering if not always knowing for sure makes me less trans or less of a woman. "you sit and watch me choke, but somehow I still needed you, though. You pushed my back against the wall, and that is when I needed you most" Telling my dad. He just watched me cry and got annoyed before I even said anything. I needed him to listen, he didn't want to. I wanted him to understand, he still hasn't tried. He told me I need to look into it more, even though I have been for years, which I explained, he didn't believe me or care. Sorry to dump, it just reeks of that time in my life, and it's helped me cope and feel it out. I hope it does the same for anyone reading this who's felt the same way. 💕
heretic pride by the mountain goats, of course but attention all pickpockets by the mountain goats is my personal transition anthem
The Glowing Man - Swans
Any Jane Remover song
Erase/Rewind by The Cardigans.
This might sound fucked but Creep was my trans coming out song. I associate it with dysphoria and gender envy
Far From Heaven by Dream Theater
crying by bjǒrk, pretty when you cry by lana del rey, the other women by lana del rey/jeff buckley. also ptolemaea by ethel cain
Thanks for Coming - Rainbow Kitten Surprise Re-entry - Rainbow Kitten Surprise Big - Betty Who
I do just love Cabinet Man and a few of his other songs. I listened to them a lot while figuring a lot of gender stuff out, and so for me I'll always associate them with starting to be myself.
[This Life Is Mine.](https://youtu.be/TiWF_vmJyiI?si=8LDc0tnt-vMGV3Hq) It's always great when I need a motivational boost.
the whole album The Weight of the Mask by Svalbard. the way the intended read is clearly about neurodivergence is a bonus to me.
brandenburg gate by lou reed
i don't really, i mean i just listen songs that i like, but if i had to pick something i would say We Fell in Love in October by Girl in Red
[This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_9pPlALzN4). Reborn, from Rémi Gallego, featuring Nikki Simmons. The lyrics are in the description. Probably the most trans-coded shit I've heard in a while (though it was most likely not the intent when the song war written).
[Cherry Lips](https://youtu.be/Cy1LdAaGASw) and [Bleed Like Me](https://youtu.be/r21Qza6vadU), both by Garbage Bleed like me, the first verse is anorexia ("hi, I'm Alexis, and I'm..."), second: "Chris is all dressed up and acting coy / painted like a brand new Christmas toy / he's trying to figure out if he's a girl or he's a boy ..." (Third is self harm...)
the entire album Love and Affection for Stupid Little Bitches by Black Dresses. the rest of their albums too tbh
Dresden Dolls have a song called 'Half Jack" that sounds to me like a song about being transgender but I know it wasn't written for that. One of my favorite songs by them.
I am a girl like you - Barbie It's not really, but it was a song that spoke to me growing up.
Hey there Delilah because it was used so much in YouTube Transition Videos in the older days
Vermillion Pt.2 by Slipknot - an odd choice, but I like my interpretation of it
This one is really out there, but HAPPPPY Song by SOOOO. I have always resonated with the idea of forcing myself to be happy in a body I was unhappy to be in (of course I'm working on that now). The rage and anger expressed in the song are just so perfect and aaahhhh. I love that song.
Reflection by Christina Aguilera is one of my dysphoria songs, and can definitely be considered either trans or trans friendly.
Hold up, I've made a whole playlist just for this moment let me pull some highlights... One of the Boys - Katy Perry Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande Wig In A Box (both movie and Broadway) Skin - Beartooth Redecorate - Twenty One Pilots: this is the song. Its about something else entirely, but it's easy to interpret gender identity and redecorating self. Idk why it just got to me when it came out it's so god and is not popular/similar to other TOS songs. Also it helps replace "They" wirh "I" in the chorus (which is what I thought it was for a while lol) Shit now I got a lot of songs to listen to...
This is Me-Kaela Settle
Sweet Cis Teen by Dazey and the Scouts is one of my favorites recently. Disclaimer that the singer is AFAB so a couple of the lyrics are less relatable for MtFs but for the most part I found it very powerful how the trans experience is sort of universal regardless of your AGAB Also (specifically for non-binary trans folks): * The Code - Nemo * They / Them / Theirs - Worriers While this one is not really about a trans person (per the band's singer), I do really like Somebody Told Me by The Killers, and have heard others say they related to it too (probably more so nonbinary people again... take a guess what my gender is lol)
Thank God by Awfultune. Essential a few years ago
Barbie Girl - Aqua That's because that was the song I literally voice trained on when I was a kid in the 90s. Five years of singing that song thousands and thousands of times is exactly why I sound like this today: [https://voca.ro/1dHbkRVKmKM2](https://voca.ro/1dHbkRVKmKM2)
Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict, pink floyd
Little Dark Age by MGMT, of course
Heel Turn 2 by The Mountain Goats. I did NOT expect a song that, on it's surface, is about professional wrestling to be *such* a moving TrAnthem. It's all about doing what you know you need to do in order to live even if it's something that people in society hate you for.
Murder Every 1 U Know by Femtanyl is one of the most extremely trans vibes songs I can think of
How Can I Sing Like A Girl and Brontosaurus by They Might Be Giants. from HCISLAG: "From the watchtowers I've been spotted/fingers pointing at my mouth/spotlights turn and swivel towards me/but I dare not make a sound" "I want to raise my freak flag/higher and higher and/I want to raise my freak flag/and never be alone" from brontosaurs: "It had been going so well/and then I broke my egg shell/and entered the world as a brontosaurus" "You want to leave an impression you want to express an emotion you crave some attention/and for this transgression you'll be repaid when/you fall and you fail and sink into depression" How Can I Sing Like A Girl is supposedly about one of the singers trying to learn to. well sing like a girl for a different song but also its so blatantly transgender AND its on the same album as SEXXY a song about transgender sex that I have a hard time believing its not intentional. SEXXY is also good but its less about the experience of being trans so doesnt go on this list
Yoshi's Island by Glass Beach! I've been listening to it a lot recently Each verse of it is about different people in your life reacting to your transition. It's very blatantly a trans song, I have no idea why they named it after a Nintendo game.
"Saturday, Sunday" and "Rest to Get Better" by Transit have been big to me. Honestly, there are quite a few songs on "Joyride" that I see in a different light. I fell in love with Transit the first moment I heard them, I couldn't put my finger on *why*, I just knew I adored the music. Shortly after I accepted I was trans and decided to transition, I came across Transit's vocalist right here on Reddit... and found out she was transgender, and that there were alot of trans themes in Transit's music. *That* was when everything clicked on why Transit resonated with me the way they did. So I always think of Transit and Ella Meadows when it comes to my transition. Thank you wholeheartedly u/Astarisbored 🩵🤍🩷
Villain by Teniwoha (tho the cover by Ado is a mile better because it's Ado)
Old song but Rag Doll by Aerosmith. Idk why it just fits.
Auntie Diaries
Voices by Motionless in White Live they slap a pride flag on the lyrics with a spiral and Chris (Lead Singer) has said it's for the LGBTQ+ fans, so I associated with it heavily 🙂
the middle - jimmy eat world
Skin beartooth
Other than the village obviously, SnapCube has an album called DeReconstruction around her experiences being trans
[Money Machine](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z97qLNXeAMQ&pp=ygUNbW9uZXkgbWFjaGluZQ%3D%3D)
Yes I'm changing, by tame Impala
Too many but the two that are in my mind atm are sTraNgeRs Bring Me The Horizon and Somewhere i belong Linkin Park
Probably body by mother mother or this is home by cavetown
Voices by Motionless in White At least imo, the opening line especially
Voices by Motionless in White
Let It Happen - Tame Impala
Please don't be mad at me for these answers but. *Turn the Page* by Bob Seger (the Metallica cover is also ok) and *The Lumberjack Song* by Monty Python's Flying Circus. *The Lumberjack Song* is transphobic but at the end of the day i can't help but desperately want to make a trans-affirming cover of the song someday
Man I feel like a woman by Shania Twain
for me it's Echo from THEA (a french artist)
“MANiCURE” by Lady Gaga
"Black Sheep" by Dorothy
Louisville Shuffle by Sarah and the Safe Word
Death of a Bachelor
Diamonds by Rihanna
For me it was Persona by Machinae Supremacy, i listened to it way to much
A bit blatantly obvious, but "Salt" by Bad Suns.
Sin Is In Her Blood by Bewitcher Fearless Priestess by Blood Star Creature of Desire by Visigoth
99% by Heart attack man
most girls
Trapdoor, twenty øne piløts
Gonna throw out some lesser-known ones here Explicitly about being trans: - TV Head - Elliot Lee - Build-A-Bear - Maggie Brewster Not exactly about being trans, just resonates well: - Two Faced - Rosendale - I miss her and I blame you - MALINDA
Real Woman - Poison Girls
Let It Go from Frozen
I found [this song](https://youtu.be/fzcQxRr1cSw?si=hJYCPpk5h1Ok-qGP) around month 4 when I was having a bad time, it sort of became a go to song when I feel bad.
The soundtrack from Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. Those witchy throat singers
John "the rock" cena,can you smell what the undertaker by hot mulligan.
On a masculine guys side, thinking about the sex maybe, Mmmm I'd say. ( Hed) PE. " Girlfriend " It's borderline pornography but it comes to mind.
Salt by Bad Suns
Burning in my Body by Kyourka and Pulvite. Quite literally very trans. You can find it on YouTube and it is well worth a listen.
Conor and Jay "Change". I heard the edited version of the song on GTA 3 back in 2001. I was still in the closet in those days. But, I immediately connected that song to the idea of transitioning. I remember when I would sigh and say to myself "I wish that I could make that change". Fast forward to the present day and I did it! It's pretty trippy to think about.
Poster of a girl by metric always wanted to be the girl in the song. Am I a girl.by poppy too, came out to my friend accidentally by sending her a snap and that song was on in the picture
The End by Lil Uzi and Babymetal, weird pick I know but personally it just works in my brain
Gender Mountain - Black Matter Device
Silver lining - Camille Peruto I deserve to bleed - Sushi Soucy Little game - Benny My ordinary life - the living tombstone
Ring of Keys from the Fun Home musical. She was singing about discovering her first lesbian, but the simultaneous gender euphoria is palpable. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFLYEyuz0Pk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFLYEyuz0Pk)
“Get Back” by the Beetles
cameron - jillette johnson
“God must hate me” by Catie turner “i cant wait to be pretty” by Cate those songs r both more so abt body dysmorphia but they just make sense for dysphoria as well. my experience as a trans woman so far can definitely be summed up by those songs, it’s sad but super true for me.
Bright Eyes by Rondé
Honestly, the Bowsette song by Chalkeaters and I will not hear otherwise.
My Spotless Mind by Current Joys The song is actually about the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" but I always took the 2 people in the song as actually being one person who is in denial about being and doesn't want to accept that they are trans but then the bridge before the outro is them accepting it realising that the life they want is the "other person's". "When I walk through your life Coming close to everything I like It's a great song and I really recommend the Audiotree version specifically. I'm very much a fan of Nick Rattigan and his various projects (Surf Curse (most people would know them for Freaks), Current Joys, Franco Years, etc.)
painkillers rks
With the village already said, sweet by sans-e
THE TOOOOOWN INSIDE MEEEEEE