“Am I A Girl?” is the title track from Poppy’s second album. It is based on a time in Poppy’s life when she was questioning her identity, showing signs of androgyny and gender fluidity. Poppy expresses that she is confused about her gender, saying that she sometimes feels feminine or masculine, and...
[Verse 1]
I want to be a girl
In all the normal ways
Pose for a photograph
Put on my pretty face
Thank God I'm not a boy
I'd always have to pay
Pretend that I was strong
And never got afraid
[Pre-Chorus]
Please don't complicate me
I don't understand
Sometimes, I'm feminine
Sometimes, I'm masculine
Don't evaluate me as woman or man
It's keeping me awake
Can't differentiate a
[Chorus]
Girl
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
What does that even mean?
I'm somewhere in between
[Verse 2]
Sometimes, I have these thoughts
They leave me all confused
It gets so hard for me
Oh, is it hard for you?
And all these blurry lines
Get crossed inside my head
When I said, "Take me home"
That wasn't what I meant
[Pre-Chorus]
Please don't complicate me
I don't understand
Sometimes, I'm feminine
Sometimes, I'm masculine
Don't evaluate me as woman or man
It's keeping me awake
Can't differentiate a
[Chorus]
Girl
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
What does that even mean?
I'm somewhere in between
[Post-Chorus]
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
Am I a girl?
[Bridge]
I want to be a girl
I want to be a girl (Am I a girl?)
I want to be a girl
I want to be a girl (Am I a girl?)
[Pre-Chorus]
Please don't complicate me
I don't understand
Sometimes, I'm feminine
Sometimes, I'm masculine
Don't evaluate me as woman or man
It's keeping me awake
Can't differentiate a
[Chorus]
Girl
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
What does that even mean?
I'm somewhere in between
[Post-Chorus]
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
Am I a girl?
Am I a Girl? was written by Poppy & Simon Wilcox & Titanic Sinclair.
Am I a Girl? was produced by Zakk Cervini & Titanic Sinclair.
Poppy released Am I a Girl? on Wed Oct 31 2018.
Poppy told Cosmopolitan that rising positive attitudes and LGBT+ representation in the media led her to begin thinking about her own gender identity.
Other celebrities started questioning it.
As Vice suggested, perhaps Poppy’s gender identity is not so much a genuine expression of how she feels, b...