Originally published at: "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is about vampires | Boing Boing
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Just gonna put this here:
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Ghod. I hate Hate HATE this song.
You have to question anyone who calls a rapist like Roman Polanski a “great guy.”
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I never knew that.
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Classic version:
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Steinman seems to have been swapped for Steinway in a few places. FYI @thomdunn
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If we all turn on the lights will the song burst into flames and disappear into thin air? Asking for a friend.
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That song always makes me think of this scene:
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Ya know, if you can just embrace the stupidity and absurdity, it is a pretty great song.
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I’m so curious; what’s this from?
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Maybe I’m particularly off, but when she sang “I’ll pose like Rocky tonight” at 2:07 my mind went to Rocky Horror, then eventually tracked back to Sylvester Stallone.
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Hm, makes me like the song a bit more, though at the end the implication that it’s a student-teacher thing is kinda creepy.
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“Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” One of the characters writes a muppet vampire musical.
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It gets weirder when you find out it was originally written with Meat Loaf in mind.
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Wait, Meatloaf is a vampire? Wow, that sets Paradise By The Dashboard Light (also by Steinman!) in a new context - makes that promise to “love you to the end of time” much more of a bummer.
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