{"id":27,"date":"2021-11-07T04:17:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T04:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/harmanjit\/?p=27"},"modified":"2021-11-07T04:17:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T04:17:20","slug":"i-have-selected-the-song-when-i-was-a-boy-by-dar-williams-the-song-was-released-in-1993-wood-mark-cabaret-setlist-when-i-was-a-boy-music-and-lyrics-by-dar-wil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/harmanjit\/2021\/11\/07\/i-have-selected-the-song-when-i-was-a-boy-by-dar-williams-the-song-was-released-in-1993-wood-mark-cabaret-setlist-when-i-was-a-boy-music-and-lyrics-by-dar-wil\/","title":{"rendered":"I have selected the song \u201cWhen I Was a Boy\u201d by Dar Williams. The song was released in 1993. [Wood, Mark,\u201d Cabaret Setlist: When I Was a Boy\u201d-Music and lyrics by Dar Williams\u201d,21 November 2020,http:\/www.bistrowards.com<\/em>]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00a0Dorothy Snowden “Dar” Williams was born on April 19, 1967. She is an American folk songwriter from Mount Kisco, New York. Periodic themes in Dar’s songs include religion, adolescence, gender issues, anti-commercialism, misunderstood relationships, loss, humor, and geography. One of the articles in tomboy muse on gender roles and how they limit boys and girls, who then become limited men and women. Dar also emphasizes that the song has always moved her as a man who had the same childhood as a \u201cgirl\u201d that the man in the song\u2019s final verse describes. Dar says: I realized that it’s just not a feminist song. It\u2019s not a song about women, it’s a song about children. So that is why the end is” when I was a girl”. And 2001 “The Advocate” writer discussed William’s popularity among LGBT people, writing that among LGBT supportive songwriters,\u201d few manage in their lyrics to dig as deeply or as authentically as William does”. “When I Was a Boy”, also on The Honest Room, uses Williams’ own childhood experiences as a that’s what made all the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[A Mighty Girl,\u201d When I Was a Boy\u201d2018, http:\/www.amightygirl.com<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0In my opinion, this song is absolutely beautiful. Dar had beautifully highlighted the hidden feelings of many people from around the world. Gender became so rigid when people become adults. If any person doesn\u2019t fit their genders stereotype, people think you’re gay or transgender or “confused”. It’s so much simpler with little kids. It\u2019s okay to climb up trees “When I was a boy, I scared the pants off of my mom Climbed what I could climb upon” Dar has effectively highlighted it. This isn’t only a feminist rejection of female gender roles, but a fully rounded realization of how social gender norms constrain all of us. In the end, you\u2019ll notice a boy \u2018character\u2019 in the song saying that he felt the same way about having to leave behind some of his tendencies that could be considered \u2018girlish.\u2019 Every word of the strong highlights the feelings as well as the strong points. As far as I’m concerned, I think it’s a song that addresses bittersweet and nostalgic feelings about childhood itself, regardless of whether the child is a boy or a girl. The song strongly speaks of the sad truth of society the things we lose – the things we trade in the name of growing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n