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The Gender Politics Of Game of Thrones, Expressed Through Song, By James Brown [VIDEO]

You know nothing Jon Snow

By Jill PantozziApr 7th, 2013, 6:01 pm

We’ve seen lyrics put to the lyric-less Game of Thrones theme song before but never quite like this. DJ rozroz seemingly explores the gender politics of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros by mixing the theme song with James Brown’s “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World.” It works surprisingly well.

(via Kotaku)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."