| Pet Shop Boys – Losing My Mind Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is originally from the 1971 musical "Follies" written by Stephen Sondheim. Context: A former showgirl, Sally Durant Plummer, sees her past lover, Ben, at a reunion. Sally has married Ben's best friend, Buddy. Near the end of the show, she sings about her passion for Ben from the past and her obsession with him now. The song "expresses her preoccupation with Ben, her idealized lover...With infinite attention to detail, Sondheim leads Sally from sunrise to sleepless night, revealing that every second of her existence is defined by her longing...the number ...explores the extent to which she has lost herself in this make-believe world of undying desire." As originally staged, Sally comes onstage in a "clinging, beaded silver" dress, holding a microphone. She repeats her lines, reflecting "the paralysis about which she sings...the phrase 'It's like I'm losing my mind' occurs no less than six times." |
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