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Make Up

Lou Reed →Transformer
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This is a song about being in a homosexual relationship with a drag queen that Lou wrote to combat negative stories about the homosexual lifestyle in the 1970s. The song describes the process of getting into drag, of the daily transformation from a man waking up in bed to a ‘slick little girl’ out on the street. On writing it, Lou said: "The gay life at the moment isn’t that great. I wanted to write a song that made it terrific, something you’d enjoy."

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