The trick is for the songwriter to not fall into the trap of painting the other person as a stereotype of the gender - they gotta make you hate them as an individual, not as a generic female (or male).
Costello and Jackson, for example, could swing both ways on that - sometimes, they wrote the other party as the scheming virago, and others as the person that they couldn't deal with. (Sometimes, plain and pure misANTHROPY comes up, but separate from gender roles. Yay venom.)
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Date: 2009-11-29 12:06 am (UTC)Costello and Jackson, for example, could swing both ways on that - sometimes, they wrote the other party as the scheming virago, and others as the person that they couldn't deal with. (Sometimes, plain and pure misANTHROPY comes up, but separate from gender roles. Yay venom.)