What are your favorite songs that used to have a different perspective? Girls Just Want to Have Fun was, originally, some guy lamenting how he wants to settle down but girls are flighty and shit and just DTF. There are, traditionally, two forms of Delia, the ones from Delia's perspective and those from the viewpoint of the boyfriend/husband who has to kill his no good, wicked, gambling, rambling woman and, then.... there's Bob Dylan's, from the perspective of one of the other guys she hung out with. The two brilliantly different songs called Jolene, about the same woman. Respect is different, sung by Aretha Franklin, than when Otis Redding did it, but Crimson and Clover is essentially the same when Joan Jett does it or when it's a dude, because the perspective hasn't appreciably shifted. Even when the Beatles changed a couple pronouns, Boys does become different, though, than when girl groups sing it. And, when they just go whole hog...

And, sometimes it works out in other forms of entertainment, too. There's a great version of John Carpenter's The Thing and its source short story, wherein we follow the alien as it is being various people and animals and just trying to communicate and make peace by being everybody else.