| "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" | ||||
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| File:Dudelookslikealady.jpg | ||||
| Single by Aerosmith | ||||
| from the album Permanent Vacation | ||||
| B-side | "Once is Enough" or "Simoriah" | |||
| Released | October 1987 1990 (re-issue) |
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| Format | Cassette, CD, Record | |||
| Recorded | 1987 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 4:24 | |||
| Label | Geffen | |||
| Writer(s) | Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Desmond Child | |||
| Producer | Bruce Fairbairn | |||
| Aerosmith singles chronology | ||||
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"Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" is a song by United States hard rock band Aerosmith. It was released as the first of three singles from the Permanent Vacation album in 1987. It reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, #41 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, #4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and #45 on the UK Singles Chart in 1987, but was re-released in early 1990 and reached a new peak of 20. The song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler, lead guitarist Joe Perry and songwriter Desmond Child.
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Lyrical interpretation [link]
The song, which originally started out as "Cruisin' for a Lady", talks about a male with an effeminate appearance, possibly a drag queen, who is mistaken for a female. Steven Tyler says in the book Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith, "One day we met Mötley Crüe, and they're all going, 'Dude!' Dude this and Dude that, everything was Dude. 'Dude (Looks Like a Lady)' came out of that session.".
According to an interview with Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe done for Swedish television, the title of the song originated from a New York bar crawl where Steven Tyler and Vince Neil had drinks at a bar where the waiters were dressed in women's clothes. This, according to Vince Neil, prompted Tyler to comment; "Dude looks like a lady!".
Joe Perry came up with the chorus riff, and Tyler came up with the chorus refrain.
In his recent book, The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe claims that the song was specifically inspired by Vince Neil, singer of Mötley Crüe.
Music video [link]
The video for Dude (Looks Like a Lady) features the band performing live onstage as well as random moments of characters portraying transvestites, including a cameo appearance by A&R man John Kalodner dressed up in a wedding dress at one point. This is a joke based on the fact that Kalodner always dresses in white.
There are also some provocative sexual performances, both by lead singer Steven Tyler as well as an attractive female who has her skirt torn off to reveal an Aerosmith "wings" tattoo on her buttocks. The video was directed by Marty Callner.
Award nominations [link]
"Dude" picked up two MTV Video Music Award nominations in 1988 (the first for the band). It was nominated for Best Group Video and Best Stage Performance, but failed to gain the wins. The band made up for it eventually, winning over 10 "moon-men" and 4 Grammys in the 1990s.
Legacy [link]
The song has long been a staple on both rock radio and in concert, as the band has regularly rotated it into their setlists over the years.
The song has been featured on a number of subsequent compilations by Aerosmith including Big Ones, O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits, Devil's Got a New Disguise and the live album A Little South of Sanity.
According to Tyler, this is one of the two Aerosmith songs he is not very fond of performing on stage. The other song is "Angel".[citation needed]
In 1993, the song was prominently featured in the film Mrs. Doubtfire, during a montage of the main character bonding with his family in disguise as a woman. The song was also used in the film's TV ads.
The song was also featured in the movie It's Pat where the title character (played by Julia Sweeney) sings it at karaoke at their wedding reception. The song fits in with the running joke throughout the film, in reference to Pat's gender confusion.
The song was played in the 1987 comedy film Like Father Like Son, starring Kirk Cameron and Dudley Moore.
The song was performed live by the band in the movie Wayne's World 2 and is featured on the soundtrack for the film.
The video for Dude (Looks Like a Lady) is featured on the karaoke game Singstar Vol. 2 for PS3.
Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira sang the song with Steven Tyler on MTV Icons and also included it on the setlist of her Tour of the Mongoose.
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Dude_(Looks_Like_a_Lady)
Hope
Hope is an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish a desire with anticipation".
Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness and despair.
In psychology
Dr. Barbara L. Fredrickson argues that hope comes into its own when crisis looms, opening us to new creative possibilities. Frederickson argues that with great need comes an unusually wide range of ideas, as well as such positive emotions as happiness and joy, courage, and empowerment, drawn from four different areas of one’s self: from a cognitive, psychological, social, or physical perspective. Hopeful people are "like the little engine that could, [because] they keep telling themselves "I think I can, I think I can". Such positive thinking bears fruit when based on a realistic sense of optimism, not on a naive "false hope".
The psychologist C.R. Snyder linked hope to the existence of a goal, combined with a determined plan for reaching that goal:Alfred Adler had similarly argued for the centrality of goal-seeking in human psychology, as too had philosophical anthropologists like Ernst Bloch. Snyder also stressed the link between hope and mental willpower, as well as the need for realistic perception of goals, arguing that the difference between hope and optimism was that the former included practical pathways to an improved future.D. W. Winnicott saw a child's antisocial behaviour as expressing an unconscious hope for management by the wider society, when containment within the immediate family had failed.Object relations theory similarly sees the analytic transference as motivated in part by an unconscious hope that past conflicts and traumas can be dealt with anew.
Hope (Ukrainian political party)
The People's Action Party "Hope" (Ukrainian: Партія Народної Дії «НАДІЯ») was founded on 18 March 2005, and has a presence in 27 regions and 525 districts of Ukraine. It is headed by Sergei Selifontiev, who created the "light parliamentary movement" in contrast to what he felt was a shady parliament of the day. On the day of its inception, 1,200,000 citizens of Ukraine joined the party.
References
Hope (2014 film)
Hope is a 2014 French drama film directed by Boris Lojkine. It was screened as part of the International Critics' Week section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it won the SACD Award.
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Podcasts:
Have Hope
by: Ronnie Spencer[Ronnie Spencer:]
You know, you got hope
Though, you make me dry
A candy coated Cadillac, that's what I drive
Rolling on 20's, screens falling from the back falling
You may not have, that mansion
Or that forty football rush, I know you want them
You may not have, expensive jewelry
Or that mink coat, it feels so fine
But the one thang, I know you have
That one thang, is hope I see you got hope
[Hook: Ronnie Spencer]
When a man's in the rough, help a brother up
Give a little love, you can't get enough ooh-ooooh
Never give up, when times get rough
Cause living in the streets, man you gotta be tough ooh-ooooh
[Noke D:]
See I'ma help a nigga out, that's the way I was raised
From the old school days, see we done turned the page
We ain't tripping no mo', cause see we all about the do'
You see us whipping in the Bentley, or a six double O
O Benz, me and my friends
Always share the ball, even when it's fourth and ten
I play the game to win, steady setting trends
We pray together, we gon stay together like we was first to kin
Man, it's going down
Gotta make a change, see that's all that's on my mind
Fuck being fine, gotta walk a straight line
Time after time, I'ma keep my mind on the grind I ain't lying
[Tyte Eyez:]
It was blood sweat and tears, I shed many for my peers
It was rough in the ghetto, for my people where I lived
I'm trying to get my family out the hood, I know that I will
A young nigga chasing dreams, show my skills to pay bills
I keep my faith in God, he gon make it happen
To get my brother that coupe my sister the Jag, my T that mansion
And to my G's on the block, we bout to switch it legal
I'm tried of seeing you boys, hustling in them hot ass Regals for real
[Ronnie Spencer:]
Now that I, paid my dues
Doors stay open, now it's choices to choose
Help my brother, so that he helps me
So when I stand tall, he stand next to me
And if I ever fall, he catches me
Together we gon ball, till I D-I-E
And if I ever fall, he catches me
Together we gon ball, till I D-I-E
[Hook x2]
[Ronnie Spencer:]
Gotta hold on, to what you got yeah
Oh I know you know I know, you gotta hold on
Even when this world is tough baby, everybody
I know yeah, you never-never-never-never
Never-never give up, hold on-hold on
Won't you hold on, hold on