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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 14:20:15 GMT
Young Girl from Return to the Forbidden Planet
Young girl get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run girl
You’re much too young girl
Beneath your perfume and your make up
You’re just a baby in disguise
And though you know that it’s wrong to be
Alone with me
That come on look is in your eyes
!!!!!!!!!
I mean, I know it was a different time but what the f**k!?
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Post by David J on Mar 15, 2020 16:18:55 GMT
“As Long As He Needs Me”, from Oliver!: a woman explains her decision to stay with her abusive boyfriend (who later kills her) by saying he needs her too much for her to consider leaving him. Neither of these women seems a bit concerned with what she needs, only with what he needs. Actually if you look further on in the song she sings “If you are lonely then you will know when someone needs you you love them so” And this is a poor Victorian woman were talking about. You and I have the privilege of access to living conditions, social circles and technology where we can connect with anyone that she didn’t have. I’m not an expert on living in slums of Victorian London but she makes it clear she has no one but him in her life that she can go to I looked up this quote from the book when Nancy is offered a chance to escape the life she has she says: “"When such as I, who have no certain roof but the coffinlid, and no friend in sickness or death but the hospital nurse, set our rotten hearts on any man, and let him fill the place that has been a blank through all our wretched lives, who can hope to cure us...pity us for having only the one feeling of the woman left..." Maybe Oliver the musical focuses on lightheartedness to emphasise Nancy’s loneliness but As Long as he Needs Me stands out for expressing her tragedy |
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Post by David J on Mar 15, 2020 16:29:53 GMT
My Fair Lady - An Ordinary Man I think the song is played to mock Henry Higgins’ views of women. The tone and tempo says it all It’s not played for laughs but to me it gets the point across. Perhaps we should look less at the words and more at what the songs are trying to tell us And isn’t it good to have stories with a variety of characters, even if their views are backwards, to play off one another Sure there are songs that are museum pieces now but it’s nice that they’re still around for us to look at and be happy to khow far we’ve moved on from this |
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Post by horton on Mar 16, 2020 6:57:55 GMT
The sexual politics of WE WILL ROCK YOU were always a bit dodgy but now seem utterly ghastly- all the "grab your chick" stuff seems prehistoric, but not in a cute way.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2020 7:05:01 GMT
The sexual politics of WE WILL ROCK YOU were always a bit dodgy but now seem utterly ghastly- all the "grab your chick" stuff seems prehistoric, but not in a cute way. When watching the UK tour I always cringe at the bike scene. Some of the lines said are just ugh |
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