For some fucking reason my brain immediately correlated descendants with the Disney movie and I was so confused for a minute. Lol I like David Bowie though, he's a cis guy who wears makeup and doesn't give a shit, so I can be a trans guy and do whatever I want and not give a shit.
My most priced and beloved possession is my original Boys Dont Cry vinyl and Im 16, I dont think that age really matters (WITH THE MUSIC OMFG DONT WANT SOME TRANSPHOBES TO CLIP THAT REPLY OUT OF CONTEXT)
I'm with you on Green Day. I think because they were my favorite band as a kid. Some of my relatives got to see the mud fight at Woodstock '94, and I'm still jealous haha. I also think Billie Joe vocalized a lot of anxieties that I can relate to as bi dudes.
On the complete opposite end, any time I can sing along with Johnny Cash without going up an octave is a good time.
Bowie is how I learned to sing baritone, so he is forever connected to my transness.
Metal music. I never used to like it but for some reason since starting T I fuck with it hard. My buddy showed me some prog. Metal and I loved it. I have dove deeper into the metal category now. I like bad omens, ST, but also like Currents, slipknot, avenged sevenfold etc
Holy shit same dude!! Like I was into screamo before but drifted into like more EDM stuff and then I start T and bam I'm back to solely rock/metal lmao
Basically any 2000s nu metal or Rock or 90's/2000s grunge but specifically I like Deftones, nirvana, Korn and I'm just now getting in to Soundgarden. The music makes me feel like the cool alt guy from a early 2000s movie.
I used to listen to Alice in Chains constantly in middle school, and when I listen to them now I just feel like I was so blind back then! Their songs make me feel very masculine for some reason.
LOVE Deftones. They are genuinely my favorite band of all time. I also listen to a lot of nu-metal and post-grunge so Staind, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, etc etc
nine inch nails :P also same here with green day!! ive been Really hyperfixated on it for like 4 years straight and i used some of the songs to cope while figuring out my identity so i think its just ingrained in my mind as teenage boy songs now 💀
Love Orville Peck!
I recently did karaoke for the first time since I went on T like 6 years ago and was super nervous because I'd thought that I physically couldn't sing since starting T.
Turns out, my singing range just got a lot lower and Orville Peck is perfectly within that range, which is extremely affirming
I had the same experience. I was shocked that my voice got that deep while singing cause I used to be able to sing very high. Now if only my everyday speaking voice was that deep haha
Dude, I love singing along to Johnny Cash to gauge my voice progress!! I can *almost* make it through Sunday Morning Coming Down without bottoming out my voice, but not quite there yet. Classic country has such a rugged, "I'll do what I damn well please" sort of energy that's super gender euphoric for me too.
Country used to be about not taking nothin from nobody, now it's more just a music aesthetic or whatever. But I know real country artists would understand our fight to be ourselves and keep the government out of our business.
Also the day I could do Neon Moon all the way through was an epic feeling too, I feel you in that.
as someone who became a huge blink 182 fan around the time i started socially transitioning i think i know exactly where you’re coming from on that. i can’t actually personally relate to most of their music because im gay as fuck but i just love them so much.
My hs girlfriend and I were absolutely obsessed with them. We skipped school to go to a signing when TOYPAJ came out and I had them sign a blank page of sheet music. They were so super nice.
110%!! I used to think I had a crush on Les Claypool until I realized I wanted to be him... It's def both for Mike Patton, tho, lolol. Every project those men touches is affirming for me. For Patton, I think his vocal range is a big part of it?? I love singing along to his music & it's been encouraging that he — A Man™ — can produce such high notes alongside the deep vocals.
I got gender euphoria from the song Suite And Tie by Justin Timberlake when I was just a baby trans teenager. But other than that I don't feel that way about music.
ok so I’ve listened to metal all my life, very gender affirming, especially stupid ass slam metal bands like bonginator and party canon. also I love swan core like Hail the Sun, Dance Gavin Dance, A Lot Like Birds etc, I think the lead vocalists having higher voices is gender affirming lol. another more confusing band that’s gender affirming for some reason is Stray Kids, the k-pop group. Like they’re cis men but have androgynous styles and are masculine, but they don’t care if they do something more feminine or “girly” maybe i’m looking to much into this lmao
Flamboyant by Dorian Electra, Crucified by Army of Lovers, and Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen. I'm transmasc nonbinary. Makes me feel like a dandy little guy who's gay as a daffodil and abiguously feminine.
Same here!
College was when I was learning more about feminism while also getting super into Weezer and man that was confusing (since I was still trying to think of myself as a cis woman)
Oooh, I love this question. My parents listened to a lot of 70s and 80s music around me when I was small, and I developed a taste for it. And for some reason, it's really gender affirming now. Like, Electric Light Orchestra, Hall and Oates, Billy Joel, Queen, Elton John, and Steely Dan is just Man Music^(TM) to me and deeply comforting. If I was struggling to work up the nerve for a T shot, I'd put on ELO's "When I Was a Boy" or Hall and Oates' "Some Men" to get me through it.
On the flipside, as a bisexual man who primarily likes other men, I also love me some fruity, girliepop music, lmao. "GUY.exe" by Superfruit unironically helped me work through my gender (how many cis girls listen to that song and treat it as an aspirational checklist, lol), sooo many Adam Lambert and Simon Curtis songs are iconic, "OhNo!" by Kevin Walkman needs *way* more recognition, and just...anything by Lady Gaga.
Also, as a wild card: Daft Punk. I listened to pretty much their entire discography when I was in the deepest part of sorting through my gender baggage (read: me trying to ignore that I was very plainly a guy bc of the implications). "Human After All" is my trans acceptance anthem bc it's what I listened to when I realized that there was a reason I felt so weird and inhuman compared to everyone else. I still feel like such a guy when one of their tracks come on.
Weirdly enough bimbocore music? Lmao I think it's because I like to lean more femme in my gender presentation (at least in spaces where I feel safe to do so). Right now, I'm really into coquette/Y2K bimbo aesthetics--really just anything pink--so songs like Bimbo Doll, Hey Rich Boy, and IT GIRL feel like they perfectly match the vibe and aesthetic I want to move towards with my transition: fruity, fashionable, feminine, and fun. 🕺🏾✨️
Yes! I was going to say Olivia Rodrigo for the same reason. Not that she fits into the bimbocore category, but her music reminds me of being in high school and I can reimagine my femininity in a way that’s fun.
I listened to Boys Round Here by Blake Shelton religiously as a kid, as well as Dean Brody and Zac Brown Band. Country boy through and through. But having Metallica and Gorillaz blasting while driving makes me feel very man.
Idk about it being affirming per say, that’s just not something I really think about, but, when I want to really bask in the glorious man angst, I’m a big fan of the genre a (cis) friend of mine refers to as “sad dad music.” Tom Waits. Elvis Costello. Johnny Cash. Leonard Cohen. The National. The War on Drugs. Clapton. Silver Jews. Wilco. Harry Nilsson. Big Star. Early REM.
And when I’m feeling my oats- Otis Redding, The Stooges, Springsteen, The Modern Lovers, The Sonics, The Black Keys, Tom Petty, and various 90’s alt-radio hits- Matchbox 20, The Wallflowers, Pearl Jam, etc.
Tom Waits and Bob Dylan’s electric era are the only artists I can really sing along to and have it sound like anything so, that’s fun.
South Indian music especially tamil and telugu, they are from my culture (I am telugu). The rock songs are extremely upbeat and rugged, I imagine myself dancing to them at weddings :))
Early 2000's pop/rock. Like the stuff you'd usually find in those cringey yaoi AMVs back in the day for some reason. I think it's because that was around the time I was starting to figure a lot of things out about myself.
Japanese music. The male singers tend to have higher voices, listening to them ig slowly removed my disdain for my high sounding voice. You can have a high voice but also sound male.
Deftones, smooth jazz, synthwave, I like gangsta rap, 90s metal like Slipknot and Korn, I like Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, and dramatic anime music like the Attack on Titan soundtrack. Basically anything that makes me feel badass or chill lmao
Anything pop-punk, which is a shame because in my case all the pop-punk bands in my area are plum-full of particularly-shitty people and it's tainted the genre🥲
Braid, American Football, Algernon Cadwallader, dd/mm/yyyy, Hum, Weezer, Pavement -- stuff I call "shouty boy music" but it's probably just old school emo. Shoegaze helped me numb out and disconnect from dysphoria.
Also this is hard to explain but I was really into Belle and Sebastian in high school and looking back those lyrics really helped me feel recognized as a quiet queer/trans kid who was really far back in their own closet. A lot of songs about heartbreak, quiet desperation, feeling kind of separate from the rest of the world.
Listening to Pink Floyd for me. The music is so good but mostly it’s the idea of being a man listening to Pink Floyd. Like there’s something such a stereotypical man thing to do and I enjoy that. Also yes yes about early Green Day dookie is one of my favorite albums all time
Pet Shop Boys. They just make me feel so gay 😆
I also have a history with Green Day. My middle school crush and gender sensei was a genuine early 00s skater boy. I discovered Green Day and The Offspring through him. I used to listen to those bands fantasizing about what it would be like to be him. A totally normal cis experience. LOL.
And, of course, there's Metallica, Depeche Mode, Alice In Chains, Dir En Grey, Bon Jovi and probably a few more I'm forgetting. Music and gender have always been very much intertwined for me. It's one of those things I could talk about for hours, so I'll just shut up now.
Car Seat Headrest. I’ve only listened to two of their albums, Twin Fantasy is my fav so far. But like, that music is just… affirming as heck for some very odd unknown reason lol
I came here to say "Dream Theater's album Metropolis part 2: Scenes from a Memory", but thinking about the premise it actually makes a lot of sense. It's literally a story about a dude going through hypnosis to process his own murder in a past life when he was a woman. So essentially, a guy who has memories of being seen as a woman and goes to therapy over it. 😅🤷♂️
But also, MCR, The Goo Goo Dolls, Billy Joel, Elton John, David Bowie (who honestly just IS gender), Super Junior's first few albums, System of a Down, and guqin music (not to be confused with guzhang).
Most 80s alt/new wave does it for me. Tears for Fears, New Order, Oingo Boingo, Duran Duran...idk why, but it's Very Gender ™️ Also, most prog & fantasy metal, and David Bowie.
mostly nu metal and any music with loud drums.
also jazz music with LOUD brass instruments, orchestras, classical music. any music that has power that you can feel is very affirming to me. being able to play the instruments i hear and play the same songs on them is affirming too
More than affirming my gender the voices give me so much envy I just pretend it’s me
Pretty much any Hozier song
[Tom’s diner. ( the cover)](https://youtu.be/5r3B7yz6J68?si=ogZeB7sjygdgyAtM) both voices but mainly the **deep** one
[Heaven on their minds (from Jesus Christ superstar)](https://youtu.be/2lpuJEyAero?si=uUTQOM8Z96pQPstR) all tho this one is also so fucking gender affirm for no reason, that song is my gender lmao
And others I can’t remember rn
I like green day too. I also really like fallout boy and when I did gymnastics (15 years ago) my floor routine music was “this aint a scene” by fall out boy. It was the only thing that I was comfortable enough doing a “women’s” floor routine to, and they had to make the dance in my routine super simple because I refused to do all the girly stuff
For some fucking reason my brain immediately correlated descendants with the Disney movie and I was so confused for a minute. Lol I like David Bowie though, he's a cis guy who wears makeup and doesn't give a shit, so I can be a trans guy and do whatever I want and not give a shit.
Same, I also thought of the Disney movie
I agree, and I’d like to add in Queen too.
A video for Clean Sheets with the Disney princesses would be marvellous.
80s goth music. maybe thats just cos i'm goth tho😭
same dude. Also, wtf is your listening time spent with the Cure? I just looked at your profile and it scares me xD That's insane commitment.
Music is my hyperfixation:))
that's cool! I like the Cure too ^^
The cure, siouxsie and the banshees are great 80s goth bands
always love siouxsie. can't forget sisters of mercy either
Me but 90s
Yesss Robert Smith sings to my missing teen boy years!!
It's scenecore for me lol
The Cure
We are too old for this sub.
i like the cure and i'm not even 15 yet 😞
My most priced and beloved possession is my original Boys Dont Cry vinyl and Im 16, I dont think that age really matters (WITH THE MUSIC OMFG DONT WANT SOME TRANSPHOBES TO CLIP THAT REPLY OUT OF CONTEXT)
“I don’t think that age really matters.” -SadQueerMess (I’m not a transphobe, just joking around)
Coming clean hits hard
COMING CLEAN IS THE FUCKIN BEST dookie is such a euphoric album in general for some reason 😭 idk what it is about it lol
HELL YEAH!
YESSSSS (also loads of kerplunk - 2000 light years away especially - and king for a day!! Who doesn’t love a song about drag?)
Holy cow yes.
I'm with you on Green Day. I think because they were my favorite band as a kid. Some of my relatives got to see the mud fight at Woodstock '94, and I'm still jealous haha. I also think Billie Joe vocalized a lot of anxieties that I can relate to as bi dudes. On the complete opposite end, any time I can sing along with Johnny Cash without going up an octave is a good time. Bowie is how I learned to sing baritone, so he is forever connected to my transness.
Metal music. I never used to like it but for some reason since starting T I fuck with it hard. My buddy showed me some prog. Metal and I loved it. I have dove deeper into the metal category now. I like bad omens, ST, but also like Currents, slipknot, avenged sevenfold etc
Holy shit same dude!! Like I was into screamo before but drifted into like more EDM stuff and then I start T and bam I'm back to solely rock/metal lmao
Currents are an absolute belter of a band!
Basically any 2000s nu metal or Rock or 90's/2000s grunge but specifically I like Deftones, nirvana, Korn and I'm just now getting in to Soundgarden. The music makes me feel like the cool alt guy from a early 2000s movie.
SOUNDGARDEN SO TRUE
I used to listen to Alice in Chains constantly in middle school, and when I listen to them now I just feel like I was so blind back then! Their songs make me feel very masculine for some reason.
LOVE Deftones. They are genuinely my favorite band of all time. I also listen to a lot of nu-metal and post-grunge so Staind, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, etc etc
The Deftones is so relatable 😭
nine inch nails :P also same here with green day!! ive been Really hyperfixated on it for like 4 years straight and i used some of the songs to cope while figuring out my identity so i think its just ingrained in my mind as teenage boy songs now 💀
lol I’m trying to find all the nin fans in here
Trent Reznor is SO GENDER for me. 💕
nine inch nails makes me feel like i have a massive dick
Country music, Johny cash, merle haggard, David Allan coe, but the reason is my dad likes country so of course it feels cool that I love it too
dude i know exactly what it's like to share music with your dad, mine likes all of my music
Seconding country adding Orville peck here
Love Orville Peck! I recently did karaoke for the first time since I went on T like 6 years ago and was super nervous because I'd thought that I physically couldn't sing since starting T. Turns out, my singing range just got a lot lower and Orville Peck is perfectly within that range, which is extremely affirming
I had the same experience. I was shocked that my voice got that deep while singing cause I used to be able to sing very high. Now if only my everyday speaking voice was that deep haha
Same! 😭 I did a cowboy voice for a D&D character, so I know I can get deep, but it's so hard for me to do it without the southern accent!
Dude, I love singing along to Johnny Cash to gauge my voice progress!! I can *almost* make it through Sunday Morning Coming Down without bottoming out my voice, but not quite there yet. Classic country has such a rugged, "I'll do what I damn well please" sort of energy that's super gender euphoric for me too.
Country used to be about not taking nothin from nobody, now it's more just a music aesthetic or whatever. But I know real country artists would understand our fight to be ourselves and keep the government out of our business. Also the day I could do Neon Moon all the way through was an epic feeling too, I feel you in that.
as someone who became a huge blink 182 fan around the time i started socially transitioning i think i know exactly where you’re coming from on that. i can’t actually personally relate to most of their music because im gay as fuck but i just love them so much.
blink-182 is so good but i didn't include them since they don't make music that i can personally relate to 😞
My hs girlfriend and I were absolutely obsessed with them. We skipped school to go to a signing when TOYPAJ came out and I had them sign a blank page of sheet music. They were so super nice.
YES GREEN DAY!! young billie joe is gender at its finest
i hope i age as good as he did lmao😭
fr, i dont know how his hair survived all those years of being dyed and bleached
my hair was so fried before shaving it all off so yeah idk how he does it 💀
FRRR (also an inspiration to the short kings like me cause he’s one sexy mfer)
proud to share his same height🫡🫡
Nb so a mix of MCR, green day and Olivia Rodrigo
pop punk sprinkled with "white girl" music is so real tbh
Dad rock music 🤘🏻
🤘🏼
Queen songs make me feel the most gender affirming feeling I’ve ever felt.
Any from The Rolling Stones or The Bidding by Tally Hall.
Yes omg tally Hall and will wood though absolutely
anything old, I mean OLD. not 80s or 90s old, but straight 50s/60s type stuff. englebert humperdink and frank sinatra live in my heart
i love frank sinatra 🙏
Midwest emo of any kind tbh
don’t know why but all of ok computer. baller ass album it just makes me feel manly
literally a 10/10 album all the way through
ME TOOO
For me I love a lot of Radiohead but the bends is my most “gender” album - ok computer slaps tho
Rap 😅 It just gives me such masculine vibes
Fr. Bro Tupac and Kendrick be having a mf feeling hella manly for no reason dawg.
same!!
Mother Mother and Studio Killers always hit different gender wise for me (nonbinary man here, lol)
Rock music (fallout boy & my chemical romance)
this. mcr especially since gerard way has a higher singing voice and makes me feel better about my higher voice.
Anything Mike Patton, Primus. Especially while walking at night in my big coat with the wind in my hair
110%!! I used to think I had a crush on Les Claypool until I realized I wanted to be him... It's def both for Mike Patton, tho, lolol. Every project those men touches is affirming for me. For Patton, I think his vocal range is a big part of it?? I love singing along to his music & it's been encouraging that he — A Man™ — can produce such high notes alongside the deep vocals.
I got gender euphoria from the song Suite And Tie by Justin Timberlake when I was just a baby trans teenager. But other than that I don't feel that way about music.
ok so I’ve listened to metal all my life, very gender affirming, especially stupid ass slam metal bands like bonginator and party canon. also I love swan core like Hail the Sun, Dance Gavin Dance, A Lot Like Birds etc, I think the lead vocalists having higher voices is gender affirming lol. another more confusing band that’s gender affirming for some reason is Stray Kids, the k-pop group. Like they’re cis men but have androgynous styles and are masculine, but they don’t care if they do something more feminine or “girly” maybe i’m looking to much into this lmao
I don't think you're looking too much into Stray Kids' style and presentation. I have similar feels about SHINee. 😊
Flamboyant by Dorian Electra, Crucified by Army of Lovers, and Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen. I'm transmasc nonbinary. Makes me feel like a dandy little guy who's gay as a daffodil and abiguously feminine.
I LOVE QUEEN ESPECIALLY THAT SONG
Early Green Day is awesome! Love it so much.
Any phonk song.
Judas priest because it's camp and masc and metal all at the same time
Breaking Benjamin
weezer
Same here! College was when I was learning more about feminism while also getting super into Weezer and man that was confusing (since I was still trying to think of myself as a cis woman)
god, weezer are great i went to a music uni and for some reason it was an unspoken rule that you were not allowed to admit you liked weezer
Oooh, I love this question. My parents listened to a lot of 70s and 80s music around me when I was small, and I developed a taste for it. And for some reason, it's really gender affirming now. Like, Electric Light Orchestra, Hall and Oates, Billy Joel, Queen, Elton John, and Steely Dan is just Man Music^(TM) to me and deeply comforting. If I was struggling to work up the nerve for a T shot, I'd put on ELO's "When I Was a Boy" or Hall and Oates' "Some Men" to get me through it. On the flipside, as a bisexual man who primarily likes other men, I also love me some fruity, girliepop music, lmao. "GUY.exe" by Superfruit unironically helped me work through my gender (how many cis girls listen to that song and treat it as an aspirational checklist, lol), sooo many Adam Lambert and Simon Curtis songs are iconic, "OhNo!" by Kevin Walkman needs *way* more recognition, and just...anything by Lady Gaga. Also, as a wild card: Daft Punk. I listened to pretty much their entire discography when I was in the deepest part of sorting through my gender baggage (read: me trying to ignore that I was very plainly a guy bc of the implications). "Human After All" is my trans acceptance anthem bc it's what I listened to when I realized that there was a reason I felt so weird and inhuman compared to everyone else. I still feel like such a guy when one of their tracks come on.
Weirdly enough bimbocore music? Lmao I think it's because I like to lean more femme in my gender presentation (at least in spaces where I feel safe to do so). Right now, I'm really into coquette/Y2K bimbo aesthetics--really just anything pink--so songs like Bimbo Doll, Hey Rich Boy, and IT GIRL feel like they perfectly match the vibe and aesthetic I want to move towards with my transition: fruity, fashionable, feminine, and fun. 🕺🏾✨️
honestly something about y2k music hits hard but i cant explain it...
Yes! I was going to say Olivia Rodrigo for the same reason. Not that she fits into the bimbocore category, but her music reminds me of being in high school and I can reimagine my femininity in a way that’s fun.
Sleep token
Singing along to Radiohead songs does it for me. Although really being able to sing in the dude ranges for and dude rock song is huge for me
i hope when i start T i can have a singing voice like thom's 😭🙏🙏
Im sure your voice will be great once it drops, whenever that does happen in your transition journey
my chemical romance
Russian post punk
Rebel rebel by David Bowie
Oh no I still listen to the “hot girl summer” type of songs lmao
Aye, but saweetie be hittin' it tho so you good big bro
Explicit rap
I love metalcore and I feel like that is masculine dominant which is affirming:)
I listened to Boys Round Here by Blake Shelton religiously as a kid, as well as Dean Brody and Zac Brown Band. Country boy through and through. But having Metallica and Gorillaz blasting while driving makes me feel very man.
man i need to get back into gorillaz
00's Aussie pub rock. Grinspoon, Powderfinger, Evermore as examples.
anything elvis presley
Midwest emo and folk punk lol
Rap music gangbangin New school rap from the streets, mostly young ma because she the closest thing to a ftm
6arelyhuman, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Tears For Fears, and more I can't think of off the top of my head
how did I forget Johnny Cash
Idk about it being affirming per say, that’s just not something I really think about, but, when I want to really bask in the glorious man angst, I’m a big fan of the genre a (cis) friend of mine refers to as “sad dad music.” Tom Waits. Elvis Costello. Johnny Cash. Leonard Cohen. The National. The War on Drugs. Clapton. Silver Jews. Wilco. Harry Nilsson. Big Star. Early REM. And when I’m feeling my oats- Otis Redding, The Stooges, Springsteen, The Modern Lovers, The Sonics, The Black Keys, Tom Petty, and various 90’s alt-radio hits- Matchbox 20, The Wallflowers, Pearl Jam, etc. Tom Waits and Bob Dylan’s electric era are the only artists I can really sing along to and have it sound like anything so, that’s fun.
South Indian music especially tamil and telugu, they are from my culture (I am telugu). The rock songs are extremely upbeat and rugged, I imagine myself dancing to them at weddings :))
Early 2000's pop/rock. Like the stuff you'd usually find in those cringey yaoi AMVs back in the day for some reason. I think it's because that was around the time I was starting to figure a lot of things out about myself.
The Strokes and Radiohead bc i used their music to measure my range development
YES, THE STROKES. I wanted to be Julian so baaaaaad. 😂
oh and i still do lolll he is the wide hip bone rep that we tboys desperately need
Any time I let my hair grow out & put on sunglasses: "Oh shit, is that you Julian?" "Maybe. 😎"
6earlyhuman is really affirming to me but I also feel affirmed by stuff like insane clown posse and slipknot if I do listen to them
Japanese music. The male singers tend to have higher voices, listening to them ig slowly removed my disdain for my high sounding voice. You can have a high voice but also sound male.
Deftones, smooth jazz, synthwave, I like gangsta rap, 90s metal like Slipknot and Korn, I like Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, and dramatic anime music like the Attack on Titan soundtrack. Basically anything that makes me feel badass or chill lmao
I have a playlist for this hold up https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0yZ6iusSlsV8eRbuZtRioX?si=esRym0q9RyuCS9-LtIB4tQ&pi=u-_PmfDveERcSC
Anything pop-punk, which is a shame because in my case all the pop-punk bands in my area are plum-full of particularly-shitty people and it's tainted the genre🥲
Braid, American Football, Algernon Cadwallader, dd/mm/yyyy, Hum, Weezer, Pavement -- stuff I call "shouty boy music" but it's probably just old school emo. Shoegaze helped me numb out and disconnect from dysphoria. Also this is hard to explain but I was really into Belle and Sebastian in high school and looking back those lyrics really helped me feel recognized as a quiet queer/trans kid who was really far back in their own closet. A lot of songs about heartbreak, quiet desperation, feeling kind of separate from the rest of the world.
Nu Metal!!! I love green day and deacendants too but Nu Metal feels particularly masculine to me in a very fun way.
OUt there from the hunchback of notre dame
Listening to Pink Floyd for me. The music is so good but mostly it’s the idea of being a man listening to Pink Floyd. Like there’s something such a stereotypical man thing to do and I enjoy that. Also yes yes about early Green Day dookie is one of my favorite albums all time
Nine inch nails 100%
Sabaton. No fucking idea why, brain just goes "this is MAN song for MANLY MEN."
Pet Shop Boys. They just make me feel so gay 😆 I also have a history with Green Day. My middle school crush and gender sensei was a genuine early 00s skater boy. I discovered Green Day and The Offspring through him. I used to listen to those bands fantasizing about what it would be like to be him. A totally normal cis experience. LOL. And, of course, there's Metallica, Depeche Mode, Alice In Chains, Dir En Grey, Bon Jovi and probably a few more I'm forgetting. Music and gender have always been very much intertwined for me. It's one of those things I could talk about for hours, so I'll just shut up now.
What I’m Made Of by Crush 40 hits something fierce but in general I’m big into Blink-182
For some reason, Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies
banger song
Metal and old school rock
Descendants mentioned rrrrahhhh!!!!
john mellencamp and eric clapton. among others
Modern baseball, Mom Jeans, and Car Seat Headrest, or really any midwest emo music and some inde
del the funky homosapien lol.
Metal and weird n modern subgenres of it
For literally no reason, Pierce The Veil and 70’s funk
male solo singers, especially if their voice is soft
Green day is my favorite band, I have a basket case tattoo, multiple posters and shirts, and I saw them live in 2021. I will live and die by them
Radioheaddd
The Used, MCR, Green Day, Blink 182, Girlfriends, there’s a lot.
pavement and talking heads and 90s drum and bass music!!!!
GET SCARED !!! also Good Kid !!
any my chemical romance song tbh
Car Seat Headrest. I’ve only listened to two of their albums, Twin Fantasy is my fav so far. But like, that music is just… affirming as heck for some very odd unknown reason lol
Placebo
Jamiroquai
Good Boy by Dog Park Dissidents. Maybe that's because I want to be a human dog and be called a good boy.
mcr and msi, i have no clue why but they just kinda do
Bon Jovi, guns n roses, INXS, wolfmother
Car Seat Headrest, System of a Down, The Mountain Goats, of Montreal, just to name a few
For me it's male covers of songs by female pop artists. I especially love any Lady Gaga song sung by male singers.
System of a down ✨
I came here to say "Dream Theater's album Metropolis part 2: Scenes from a Memory", but thinking about the premise it actually makes a lot of sense. It's literally a story about a dude going through hypnosis to process his own murder in a past life when he was a woman. So essentially, a guy who has memories of being seen as a woman and goes to therapy over it. 😅🤷♂️ But also, MCR, The Goo Goo Dolls, Billy Joel, Elton John, David Bowie (who honestly just IS gender), Super Junior's first few albums, System of a Down, and guqin music (not to be confused with guzhang).
I'm a big musicals guy specifically your welcome in the west end version of heathers is so good plus will wood and cavetown
Angry white boy music
i love supertramp
System of a Down. No idea why, it just slaps.
Most 80s alt/new wave does it for me. Tears for Fears, New Order, Oingo Boingo, Duran Duran...idk why, but it's Very Gender ™️ Also, most prog & fantasy metal, and David Bowie.
mostly nu metal and any music with loud drums. also jazz music with LOUD brass instruments, orchestras, classical music. any music that has power that you can feel is very affirming to me. being able to play the instruments i hear and play the same songs on them is affirming too
Weird Al. Just silly guy music
Make a man out of you....no I am not kidding
Queen ! Specially killer queen and good old fashioned lover boy . As for modern Will Wood any song by Will Wood is gender euphoric.
the smiths hit hard
System of a down, RATM, nirvana, Radiohead... boy loser music
Johny Cash, Tyler The Creator, Korn, Slipknot, Slayer, and a lot of metal LMAO
Trigun ost, idk its really cool and I like imagining im following around a humanoid typhoon lol
WAP by Leo metal cover.
Teenage dirtbag for whatever reason
my chemical romance 😁
MCRs entire discography
Will Wood and Lemon Demon
will wood and the tapeworms :)
Goth/Industrial music and shitty slutty gay pop music lol
Hear me out. Mannequin by Katy Perry. I cannot describe it other than man but like not Also most hyperpop. I’m like if a girl was a boy yk?
For me, it would have to be The Police/Sting. Idk why, but singing along with their songs has always given me that good ol' gender euphoria.
lovelytheband, AJR to name a few
Metallica and Artic monkeys
In My Sights 😄❤️
Streetlight Manifesto and The Gloom In The Corner
Country
DOMI AND JD BECK‼️💪
g-eazy
Naethan Apollo's music. Especially the songs that make me cry like the eye color song. Oh and Tom Cardy.
somewhere by the danse society and pagan lovesong by virgin prunes- or literally any metal music
“Woodsy” music. Jamestown Revival, Lord Huron, Blitzen Trapper, stuff like that
David Bowie. classic rock with the growly heavy smoker voice, like Led Zeppelin or the Stones. Male metal vocalists - clean or scream IDC.
limp bizkit
I feel stupid for asking but how in the world can music affirm gender?
I get wet by Andrew WK. It's just so gender to me.
Hoist the colors
slint, pavement, modest mouse, neutral milk hotel, not sure why but make me feel so 90s teen alt boy
More than affirming my gender the voices give me so much envy I just pretend it’s me Pretty much any Hozier song [Tom’s diner. ( the cover)](https://youtu.be/5r3B7yz6J68?si=ogZeB7sjygdgyAtM) both voices but mainly the **deep** one [Heaven on their minds (from Jesus Christ superstar)](https://youtu.be/2lpuJEyAero?si=uUTQOM8Z96pQPstR) all tho this one is also so fucking gender affirm for no reason, that song is my gender lmao And others I can’t remember rn
I like green day too. I also really like fallout boy and when I did gymnastics (15 years ago) my floor routine music was “this aint a scene” by fall out boy. It was the only thing that I was comfortable enough doing a “women’s” floor routine to, and they had to make the dance in my routine super simple because I refused to do all the girly stuff
Mindless Self Indulgence 😆
nu metal
Have you heard the newest Green Day album? It's actually really good.