Voltaire - It's Normal For A Man Lyrics

If this is true then how come I'm a 35 year old virgin man

Got strangely relevant over the years.

i love how people think this song is you being serious...
just because of how...like...obvious it is that that's not the case

I don't like country. Why do I love this!?

He's wrong

nobody want's spam, it's gross

Agreed! Spam in ALL FORMS IS (mail form or otherwise), but that is basically his point! Some days you'll want it all, the greatness and what's brought you the world and made you feel like a fancy pants for years (AKA they wife, GF, etcetera). However, have enough of it and sometimes you can get so bored out of it sometimes you may wind up wanting to try eating shit and go for something less classy like a burger from that greasy diner round the corner or McDonald's or the grossest food of all (if you can call it food)...SPAM...AKA A (cheap) WHORE!

Similar to how guys in my neck of the woods treat women unfortunately! Here most of them, at least from my experience (especially the ones I run into on the bus and train and/or just walking around every day and race is a non-issue even if I have experienced this from less white guys) is that guys by me and this is prolly true elsewhere claim that they want to have a true dating relationship with a curvier woman like myself, but can't as they need everything as seen on TV to get anywhere in life and so that includes forcing us to be the curvy, whorish Kardashians of their fantasies as since they can't date curves instead curves are only good for what they actually do which is forcing, stalking groping and raping us but claim as we are big can't say no and have to take what we can get (AKA BEING THE SPAM) and if they so much as say "hi" to us and we look at them that's enough of an "in" in their fucked up man brains to just "take us" like the "spam" they see us as, since they claim they want to be with us in all ways but can't due to T.V. and being from being from a supposedly run down life. So, only having what T.V. considers the "filet minion" on their arm AKA a skinny woman will get them the "status" they need to live large and so in their even more fucked brains here they claim only skinny chicks have rights, can say "yes/no" and have to be listened to and deserve nice things! Had only one guy take me to dinner and he didn't even know my floor number and needed a key to get in the building, I was already pushing the door closed and then I felt shoved open and he burst in claiming if I was a skinny chick he woulda left me at the restaurant if asked and gone our separate ways and made it seem like I was someone he'd want to make his wife but instead due to me being a "pig" or the "spam" as he put it he had the right to just force me to cuddle him naked and I couldn't say shit! Some of these guys, no offense to foreign men that aren't like this but this has been a majority of my experiences with the ones by me, especially the foreign ones view sex as the "next icebreaker" if you guys don't speak the same language and so if you just happen to sit on the same train bench as one of them that's got an enclosure and don't even notice them and/or sit on the opposite end and they spot you they will move in and start forcing themselves on you. FORCIBLY MAKING OUT WITH YOU, GRABBING YOUR HANDS LIKE PUSHING THEM OFF YOU IS A GAME TYPE STUFF AND GO STRAIGHT IN! What is worse is these guys don't give a crap about you're orientation and won't even ask, just take claiming since you're the spam you're what I say you are and like it! So yeah, guys do!

-Sincerely,

A panromantic demisexual who has no love for cis men and has been robbed by two of them and kicked more of their asses and forced by more of them than I can recall all so I can get out as I don't have the strength to fight them off thanks to my mom's arthritis and there was never a brick around when I needed it!

Y'all know he's making fun of the whole "normal for a man" part, right? Cause that's kind of his thing; making fun of stereotypes and double standards and also necrophilia

isn't there a south park episode about this?

For once, I've found a song of Voltaire's that I don't agree with, which is kind of shocking since I love everything else.

Still, I think I'm in the minority on this subject when it comes to men. I had a bit of a traumatic experience as a young teen that made me despise cheaters. My dad had cheated on my mum, and was leaving her for another women.

Coming home at 12 years old from school to find your mum passed out in the kitchen with a pill bottle in her hands is something that sticks with you.

A lot of country has sexism of this kind as a standard- he's lampooning it.

in most cases tho its 1alpha male with a harem.

Like much of his work, I find this relies on satire and irony and it asks the audience to be in on the joke: that joke being pointing out the double standard that this is acceptable "for a man", with the implication being that it's not equally acceptable (or equally unacceptable) for a woman. Just as with the songs of fantasizing violent murder, it seems Voltaire takes on a character here -- that character being one of the types who holds more subtle sexist positions that are more socially normalized. He also takes on that character in the style of country, which as +LaikaCameBack pointed out is rife with these (and worse) attitudes. Additionally it really doesn't sound like an espousing of true opinion, largely for how heavy-handed it is in delivering that message. Sort of like many of the lines in "God Thinks" it seems to be a case of taking absurd positions in order to demonstrate the flaws, which of course is the point of social and cultural satire.

I'm not saying any of that's definitive, it just reads like he's deriding the position his narrator here has as far as I can tell.

Voltaire's making fun of it

@Joss Land, multiply that by at least one suicide attempt a year for the same reason and you have my mother. This song is not condoning infidelity, it speaks about it from a certain male and populist opinion in the style of a lot of country music. It doesn't say it's right... it says it exist and is even prevalent to epidemic, possibly biologically ingrained proportions. I for one am strictly monogamous but that hardly makes for a good county song.

As an asexual, I suppose that makes me quite abnormal. :P

Do you feel left out when people talk about how they "need sex"?  I know I do.  Everyones different, some have libido but no desire, some have no libido, some are indifferent, and some are repulsed.  Then there are those who claim to "need" sex...

@K. Boswell I sort of see sex as a spectator sport. Hey, if everybody except me likes it, then who am I to get in their way? I don't know what the feeling's like, but I can imagine.

@Kapteindood This song is ment sarcasticaly, right? I think I sense the sarcasm in his voice.....

@Kapteindood nah, same.

I've been a fan of Voltaire's for awhile, but I must say, songs that condone infidelity have never been my taste. This must be the first song of his that struck a nerve. But got to give him credit for always showing his pair and stating his opinion,as always. Just don't be surprised when one of us crazy women cut them off ;DD

look at the last stanza and your opinion might change a bit

@Dani LovesCupcakes I think the song completely changes its tone if you pay more attention to the last stanza

>Voltaire satirizes the outdated stereotype of manliness.
>A crazy woman completely misses the point and jokes about cutting his balls.
And dear Emma Watson wonders why people have grown to fear and loathe the word "feminism".

@RayneRockstar This^

Please tell me you're joking... This song is actually profeminism

As feminista pira :D

Thank you, I appreciate that!

Man, Voltaire, your songs dance on this amazing line between all sorts of genres and moods. You aren't -just- a gothic singer, or -just- a country artist (this is like, the only country song of yours that I know of), or -just- ANYTHING. It's an amazing sort of artist that can pull that off and you are one of the very few who can pull it off who I've listened to.

Keep it up, man!

Jesse James is the Motorcycle Man referred to herein.

One of my teachers nicknamed me Jesse James in school and could never get why I hated it and there are just somethings too difficult to privately mention in a program that's small and 94% boys, especially like this! Even if I am a lesbian and wouldn't mind a few doting women, there are still some things I take offense to and this was no exception!

Voltaire could proly do rap and Id love him still LOL! I love this

HE HAS! TO TOP THAT A STAR TREK SONG!

Well, I'll like your stuff as much as I can. :D

Amurrica.

No you might be thinking China (no offense China, I'm being historical not racist)

"If you eat filet mignon each day eventually you'll want Spam. It's nothing strange; It's normal for a man." Best Voltaire quote ever xD

Country music: when you sing sexest but often true facts about women and men and get away with it XD.

Not even close!!! The number is a very very small fraction of a cent. No joke.

Aww, come on. How much do you get for a like... 20 cents? More people need to like this stuff.

This really needed to be said

" i guess im just too old and tired to do what is normal for a man " yes ... that right there folks ... that right there folks is what keeps me going back to his music ... that right there is an intrequid understanding of how the male mind works even through the changes of age ... and that ... is why i personally LOVE voltaire as an artist!

"He gave new meaning to have an intern on your staff."

At first, I was like "Uh.....Lol, what?"


Then I thought about it for a while, and literally yelled "THAT WAS CLEVER, VOLTAIRE." And laughed for a while.....

heck yeah. i was about to comment on that when i saw ur post

I like how Tiger Woods is in the tags.

I normally hate country music but if this was played on the stations, I'd be a country junkie.

That's what I call Country!

Voltaire. I promise if I hit the big time and get involved in a big sex scandal. I'd show my (metaphorical) pair and fess up and say: "It's normal for a man." In your honor. xD

Voltaire + country = SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

Thank you for uploading the rest of these.

Love your music as always Voltaire, despite the different sound of this album (I never like Country or Rap).

But, is it just me, or does the part "Just grow a pair and fess up and say" seem less natural?

Either way, thank you for your art.

This sounds familiar..

The allusion to Bill Clinton made me laugh :D

amazing voltaire you never stop amazing me

I only have minutes to get to the next song! I love it.