Queer Mashups

I made a couple more "mashups" today. I wanted to make queer mashups / use mashups to "queer" pop songs. Here's what I came up with:

Kelis' "Bossy" with Shareefa's "I Need a Boss"



Cher's "Take Me Home" with Lisa Lisa's "I Wonder if I Take You Home"



The Cher and Lisa Lisa songs, like pop songs in general, are in second person, they address someone, a "you." This "you" is a man, but when the two songs are put together, they are addressing each other. Cher becomes the person trying to convince Lisa Lisa to take her (originally him) home.

As hip-hop-tinged R&B / pop songs, "Bossy" and "I Need a Boss" are not sung to another character, they are sung to the audience. So, while Cher and Lisa Lisa seem to be having a straightforward conversation with each other, Shareefa and Kelis seem more to be flirting when the songs are put together. Shareefa says, "I need a boss" and Kelis replies, "I'm bossy."

My original thought was that, with the mashups, the mode of reception is listening - you listen to the songs together. However, they're pretty much unlistenable. Since most of the queer meaning of putting these songs together is in the titles, anyway, I think that the mode of reception is thinking the songs together.

Finally, these mashups are both women / women mashups because I mostly listen to female vocalists. I would love to make some male / male mashups. Any ideas?