![]() ![]() Like the line in "Fiddler on the Roof" where the impoverished main character imagines being a rich man, the lyric uses a hypothetical ("If I were…") as a way to highlight what the singer is. ![]() Likewise, songwriter BC Jean's opening line isn't really about wanting to be a boy. Gwen's mediocre version is solidly ironic, but the original song was an actual lament about the struggles of poverty. Gwen Stefani's 2004 song was actually a takeoff from the 1964 play "Fiddler on the Roof," a historical musical about poor Jews living in Russia at the turn of the century. Okay, so the scarecrow wanted to have a brain, the Barenaked Ladies wanted a million dollars, Gwen Stefani wanted to be a rich girl, and now Beyoncé wants to be a boy.īut wait, let's get all this straight. Is the grass always greener on the other side? Deep Thought
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