"If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for her 1986 rock album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire.
Child has since stated that the song was re-written as "You Give Love a Bad Name" with Bon Jovi after he was dissatisfied with the chart performance of "If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)".
After the success of Faster Than the Speed of Night in 1983, Bonnie Tyler went on to work with Jim Steinman on a second album.
He co-wrote "You Give Love a Bad Name" with Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora using the same chorus composition and made the song a hit.
"[2] The album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire received generally positive reviews from music critics.
"[4] Jerry Smith of the Music Week magazine considered the track a Tyler "typical number" with a "ponderous title", describing it as "a sanitised American rock single that is made for the radio".
We see a dark alley full of people, some nuns in the background, a boy in a black leather jacket and his dog.
We then cut to a dressing room in a club—Bonnie Tyler sits in front of a mirror, reading a newspaper with one headline: "City under siege".
At this point we realise the Bonnie Tyler character is the elderly woman's flashback to the past she described earlier.
There are also semi naked muscular men, some caught like flies in a giant spider web, dozens of feet high.
Outside in the alley again, a gang of heavily armed girls corner a man who was just standing there, slap him to the ground, point a gun at him and force lipstick on him.
The sound of a bomb whistling and landing is heard, and we see the dark alley erupt with fire, explosions.
Meanwhile, in the club, Bonnie continues to sing and women cheer surround a pit of mud which contains four men (who are tied together in pairs) mud-wrestling.
A man resembling the character Rambo glides into the room on a zip wire, landing on a raised platform.
[15] Bat Out of Hell: The Musical is set in 2030 according to the "Obsidian Times" newspapers they hand out at the show,[16] whereas the elderly woman in this video refers to the turn of the 21st century.
also occurs in Jim Steinman's own music video "Dance in My Pants",[17] and is spoken by a woman on the door of a different club.
[18] In October 2005, Tyler performed "If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)" live at the Fiestas del Pilar in Zaragoza, Spain.
In 2015, Tyler performed the song live on the sixth season of X-Factor, the Ukrainian version of The X Factor, with contestant Bogdan Sovyk.
[36] The song was covered by Robin Beck for her 1989 album Trouble Or Nothin', produced by Child and his longtime collaborator Sir Arthur Payson.
[37] The album also features other songs written by Child originally recorded by Tyler, including "Hide Your Heart" and "Save Up All Your Tears".
[38] Ava Max has replayed the melody of the song in her 2020 single "Kings & Queens" featured on her album Heaven & Hell.