{"id":845510,"date":"2026-03-23T19:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/845510\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:07:16","slug":"the-kinks-dave-davies-slams-moby-over-lola-criticism-i-am-highly-insulted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/845510\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kinks\u2019 Dave Davies Slams Moby Over \u201cLola\u201d Criticism: \u201cI Am Highly Insulted\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, Moby<\/a> participated in The Guardian\u2019s \u201cHonest Playlist<\/a>\u201d column, which asks musicians and other celebrities to compile a list of songs based on specific prompts. For \u201cThe song I can no longer listen to,\u201d the producer and DJ opted for \u201cLola\u201d by the Kinks<\/a>. \u201cLola by the Kinks came up on a Spotify playlist, and I thought the lyrics were gross and transphobic,\u201d he said. \u201cI like their early music, but I was really taken aback at how unevolved the lyrics are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kinks guitarist Dave Davies then responded to Moby\u2019s comments about \u201cLola,\u201d which was written by the band\u2019s frontman and Davies\u2019 brother, Ray. \u201cI am highly insulted that Moby would accuse my brother of being \u2018unevolved\u2019 or transphobic in any way,\u201d he wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Davies also shared a statement from the pioneering transgender punk artist Jayne County. In it, she writes: \u201cLola will always be one of those songs that for me \u2018broke the ice\u2019 so to speak! A song that breaks down barriers and brings a used to be, hush, hush subject to the forefront and makes it sound perfectly natural to be singing a song about a \u2018girl\u2019 named Lola! I don\u2019t think the radio stations picked up on the subject matter but a lot of the fans did and that’s what really matters!\u201d Read County\u2019s full words below.<\/p>\n

\u201cLola\u201d was released in June 1970 as the lead single from that year\u2019s Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Part One. Whether the song\u2019s subject is a trans woman or a cross-dresser remains a longstanding point of contention. \u201cIt really doesn\u2019t matter what sex Lola is,\u201d Ray Davies told Record Mirror in an interview around the time of release. \u201cI think she\u2019s all right.\u201d As \u201cLola\u201d climbed the charts, UK radio DJs took to fading out the song before its final-verse revelation\u2014\u201cI\u2019m glad I\u2019m a man and so is Lola\u201d\u2014while some Australian stations banned it from airplay entirely.<\/p>\n

\"Frank<\/a>50 Songs That Define the Last 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Pride<\/a><\/p>\n

Jane County:<\/p>\n

Of course, when I first heard the name Lola, it conjured up memories of Marlena Dietrich standing on a stage in a crowded, smokey room singing one of her most famous songs, \u2018Lola!\u2019 From the 1930 film \u2018The Blue Angel\u2019 \u2018I am the naughty Lola all the men know me!\u2019 I always thought that the young lady in the song by The Kinks, had perhaps taken her name from the Dietrich character! And a trashy, dark bar in London’s Soho district would for sure have an \u2018interesting\u2019 array of night time denizens! And a woman with a low voice and the name Lola, would certainly qualify for a possible encounter with either a transvestite or transexual!<\/p>\n

When I heard the song I was both thrilled and amazed that the Kinks would be singing a song about a trans person and wondered if anyone else had picked up on it! Who was cool or hip enough to realize what The Kinks were singing about! Lola will always be one of those songs that for me \u2018broke the ice\u2019 so to speak! A song that breaks down barriers and brings a used to be, hush, hush subject to the forefront and makes it sound perfectly natural to be singing a song about a \u2018girl\u2019 named Lola! I don\u2019t think the radio stations picked up on the subject matter but a lot of the fans did and that’s what really matters!<\/p>\n

\u2018Lola\u2019 certainly influenced my song writing and in my song \u2018Wonder Woman\u2019 (Are you wondering?) I bring up \u2018Lola\u2019 in the song’s lyrics. \u201cLola with a passion mark kiss.\u201d \u2018Lola\u2019 will always be a very special song to me! With this song, The Kinks projected themselves into the modern world. The REAL world! A world full of all kinds of people! Bisexual, Gay, Trans, not just a world full of straight heterosexuals! \u2018Lola\u2019 broke down the doors of narrow mindedness and I will always be grateful and happy that The Kinks gave me this incredible song with such a great story! Being Trans myself this will always be a very special song for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the weekend, Moby participated in The Guardian\u2019s \u201cHonest Playlist\u201d column, which asks musicians and other celebrities to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[6850,77,269,16,15],"class_list":["post-845510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-beef","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116280062661781737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}