Meaning of "Lola" by The Kinks
Blog author: Shane Lambert The song "Lola" is from the point of view of a young man whose first sexual experience is with someone who he discovers to be a cross-dresser; the song may be depicting a rape or sexual assault. Furthermore, there is depth to the song if the young man's enduring fondness for the person that assaulted him can be viewed as the psychological impact of the traumatic experience. This is despite the song perhaps being viewed as comedic. Both the youth of the man and his sexual inexperience are ascertainable in Lines 31 and 32 below: "Well I left home just a week before, And I've never ever kissed a woman before" Lola is introduced as a woman in the first line with the pronoun "her." That Lola is a man and not a woman is both clear and opaque, depending on which line you look at. Some clear references to Lola being a man are in lines 28 and 10-11. Line 28 states that "Girls will be boys, and boys ...