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Monday, August 26, 2019
Comparing the Lyrics of 2 Songs: You Took Advantage Of Me And How Insensitive
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2 comments :
How Insensitive is indeed a doomy song - from the opening line you realise there will be no happy ending. In fact the mood is almost suicidal. You Took Advantage of me - from the 1928 musical Present Arms is, as you point out, a fun song.
In the show, I gather, the couple 'on the verge' were once married to each other but since divorced and now, maybe, rekindling their passion. The title, I suggest, refers to when they had their first premarital encounter, the rest of the song to the nervousness she feels remembering the highs and lows.
I'm sure many of us can recall the awkwardness, the feeling of being tongue tied when meeting up with an old flame whom you never quite got over. Like you're glad when they are gone but can't wait to see them again! Does this make sense?
As regards 'my elbow from my ear' if Hart had substituted ear, with arse or ass, as he would have used, it would have thrown the lyric off course and may, in those unenlightened times, to quote your phrase Ann, have had the theatre shut down - this was long before Godspell!
Re his homosexuality, at the recent Ann Hampton Callaway show at Pizza Express the singer described how 'My Funny Valentine' was actually written by Lorenz Hart looking into a mirror and, in fact, describing himself as he reflected upon his loveless existence.
Check out versions by Lee Wiley and Ella.
Lance, Thank you for these brilliant, useful observations. You're right about the rhyme with
'ass' of course. And the fact about 'My Funny Valentine' gives a whole new dimension to the song. If I ever sing it I'll tell that tale and sing it very sadly. That song says he's not very smart, but he certainly was! Ann
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