What Bathroom Do I Use?

I think it's me, but the music doesn't fit the lyrics. the cadence is off. some lines seem rushed because of the syllable count. but funny lyrics :)

Sorry to highjack your song again, but I thought your lyrics needed a faster beat, like 320bpm, thought of either Black Flag or X. Came up with this - https://suno.com/s/yjZcgLI3ixPaDbVN.. not quite X, you don't have Xene droning in the background :)

Or as GBH - https://suno.com/s/tKkInTg8tPGkYCv2

not sure about that.. ska is 3/4 beat. he would need to modify his lyrics to fit that, otherwise, suno's algorithm wlll try to make it work.

Those bands were long after my time. that's the second wave of punks. In the late 70;s, early 80's most of the clubs in OC either shut down or stopped booking punk bands, because they became too violent. punks formed gangs, the skate punks, LA punks, Mexican punks. I think the last party i went to in hunting beach, they had to call the cops because a big fight broke out, then some idiot diid the worm on broken glass. I like your lyrics, you write strong choruses.

It's hard to pull off a song like this without it sounding crass or insensitive.

I think you're on the right track by writing it from their perspective. Laughing at themselves, rather than being laughed at is definitely the right approach.

I'd be careful with lines like "Am I a lady or a dude?" because it doesn't feel like something someone in that position would say, and that breaks the magic. It's a fine line between humour and bullying.

Too bad Doctor Demento no longer around!!!!! This would fit in his show.😛

"The early punk scenes in both New York and the UK were deeply rooted in queer spaces. Before the genre hardened into something marketable, punk bands played in gay clubs like Mother’s near the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan where the Ramones, Blondie, and Suicide performed. In London, it was Louise’s and in the North it was The Ranch, a tiny Manchester gay bar that gave a home to the Buzzcocks and others. As Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks remembered in the book Secret Public, “Gay bars were the places you could go and be outlandish with your dress and not get beaten up.” Siouxsie Sioux called early punk a “club for misfits - anyone who didn’t conform to any mass Mecca… male gays, female gays, bisexuals, nonsexuals, everything. No one was criticized for their sexual preferences.”

I know all of this. I lived it. Have you? I had friends who were different and got harassed because of it. In high school I hung around the freaks and the queers because I was one of them — not queer, but a freak. I saw kids dragged into bathrooms and their faces shoved in toilets because they were queer.

As punks with outlandishly dressed gay friends, we were refused service or asked to leave places — even a Taco Bell — just because of how we looked. One night a group of us was just sitting there eating, and the staff called the cops on us. We weren’t doing anything.

But none of that has anything to do with this song, or with my point about Owen’s comment. There’s a fine line between humour and bullying. Punk songs are rude, crass social commentaries. They’re designed to make you uncomfortable. Some songs make you feel like you’re being bullied — that’s the point.