| Bette Midler – Oh Industry Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[seth101007:9178] You've got it. It's a pastiche sendup of avant garde musical theatre. It's a pretty narrowly targeted laugh, but for Midler and Warren it would have probably been lots of fun to write - having taken part in that actor-friend-drag-you-to-some-weird-show cycle themselves. From within the musical's internal logic, the song is an abstract science-fiction-inflected demonstration of the inevitable horrors of Regan-era industrialism as imagined by Regan-era liberals. The film skewers both, which is funny if you're familiar with the theatre of that era and it's politics - and is just plain hard to follow if you're not. I'm old, I was there! We all thought it was mighty clever at the time. ^_^ |
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