I guess I have a weird oppinion of this song. When I first saw RENT I thought, wow this is song is so great, Mimi is so happy and fun and dancing and it is so upbeat and really moves...but now...having seen RENT many times and analyzing the song more carefully, I see this song as a simple side effect of the heroin she so desperately craves.
So let's find a bar
So dark we forget who we are
And all the scars from the
Nevers and maybes die
It's all about enabling herself to be someone she isn't and forgetting her pain. If you've seen the show, you know that Mimi shakes a gram of heroin in Roger's face towards the end of the song...she wants him to join her in an unforgettable high...and though I love it...at times I just feel as sad as Roger clearly is because we both know that underneath the rubber and the glitter and the manic smile is just a 19 year old girl living on the streets who for one night does not want to concern herself with T-cells and AZT.
I guess I have a weird oppinion of this song. When I first saw RENT I thought, wow this is song is so great, Mimi is so happy and fun and dancing and it is so upbeat and really moves...but now...having seen RENT many times and analyzing the song more carefully, I see this song as a simple side effect of the heroin she so desperately craves.
So let's find a bar So dark we forget who we are And all the scars from the Nevers and maybes die
It's all about enabling herself to be someone she isn't and forgetting her pain. If you've seen the show, you know that Mimi shakes a gram of heroin in Roger's face towards the end of the song...she wants him to join her in an unforgettable high...and though I love it...at times I just feel as sad as Roger clearly is because we both know that underneath the rubber and the glitter and the manic smile is just a 19 year old girl living on the streets who for one night does not want to concern herself with T-cells and AZT.