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Sunday, March 29, 2026

The Kinks - A Long Way From Home [Lola versus Powerman and The Money Go Round] | jt1674 + Comment on MOBY on LOLA

 Moby was criticised by The Kinks' Dave Davies for attacking their song 'Lola'


This quite extraordinarily insensitive un-attuned ignorant person had to trawl back to the sixties to try to find some that triggered him! What a unreconstituted male arrogant pillock! Moby has allegedly said Lola by the Kinks offends his sensibilities describing its writer as "unevolved and is transphobic". This snowflake is wrong and could NOT be further from the truth. Had he actually listened to it carefully and in contemporary times he would have understood it was the EXACT opposite of what he claims to feel! 

It was one of the first songs as a teenager that made us THINK about such things and question peoples judgment about gender and what is and what isn't male and female. It was groundbreaking in terms of its introducing the theme to modern youth. Today you need to HEAR it in context and if you don’t have the sensibility to do that then you are in the wrong business . . . .which I long suspect the so called christian (self described as "Taoist–Christian–Agnostic quantum mechanic” actually was! Pea-brained pretentious pillock must have something to SELL! (In fact invited by The Gruaniad) Richard Melville Hall is a clothes shop owner, vegan reaturant owner and some time DJ. Amongst the most boring and seemingly liberal narrow minded bores it has been my displeasure to hear.

Dave Davies said "“I am highly insulted that Moby would accuse my brother of being ‘unevolved’ or transphobic in any way,” he wrote on X. Davies also shared a statement from the pioneering transgender punk artist Jayne County. In it, she writes: “Lola will always be one of those songs that for me ‘broke the ice’ 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 ‘girl’ named Lola! I don’t think the radio stations picked up on the subject matter but a lot of the fans did and that's what really matters!”

Ray Davies said “Who?"

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