Acting your role

 So I was thinking about AP Lit while browsing tumblr (don't be surprised, if it's not an original thought, there's about a 50/50 chance the smart things I'm saying come from tumblr) and I saw this post that said "people who change song lyrics to make them hetero are the worst kind if people" and it got me thinking. Not only do I completely disagree (sexual orientation isn't a choice and no orientation is less than another. Where is the logic in not changing a love song to relate more to yourself?) but it also made me think about what we said about actors and tones changing a role. Well, let's imagine a guy singing Taylor Swift's song You Belong With Me. None of the lyrics are changed, it's all word for word. There are really two options here. Either he's gay or the person the song is written for is. Basically, it's either a guy singing to another guy about how they should be together, or a guy singing to a lesbian about how they should be together. This song couldn't easily be gender-bent easily, anyway. Just changing pronouns it feels like the person the singer is jealous of is a cross dresser and if you try to alter all of it then you mess up the whole melody. So really, it's all a matter of the right person singing the lyrics properly, because too many changes are going to pull the piece apart.