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9:30 Coffee Break: Gender Bender

June 28, 2013

Gender signs entangled
Today's 9:30 Coffee Break is songs covered by the opposite sex without changing the lyrics.
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There are a lot of factors to take into consideration when covering a song. Do you re-do it note for note? Change the entire genre of the song? Change the lyrics? For today's Coffee Break we are going to get pretty specific. We are looking to play songs originally written and performed by one gender and covered without changing any pronouns by the opposite gender.

What songs covered by the opposite gender without changing the lyrics should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

Congrats to this month's Coffee Break on the Road winner, Jenny from Activision. Jenny wrote, "I value every second of time my coworkers put into making our office environment ridiculously entertaining while working their butts off. I can't think of a better way to show the love than to have the Morning Show and Bomba De Luz hang out with us on Friday morning. Our office is a HUGE supporter of local resources. We work with local vendors to produce t-shirts for company events and have vendors in the twin cities area contribute to our games. Being lucky enough to host Bomba De Luz in our office would be the icing on the locally sourced cake."