The Rocky Horror Picture Show : Anyone else think that "I'm Going Home" is not that great of a song and

Anyone else think that "I'm Going Home" is not that great of a song and

SLOWS the movie down a little too much ? .... Do you think it would have been better if Frank n' Futter sang "Superheroes" instead? That song makes me tear up a little bit...
Your thoughts ? Yeah- prolly nobody will agree with me.......









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Re: Anyone else think that "I'm Going Home" is not that great of a song

I love I'm Going Home. The tears of a clown finally drain his make up showing the vulnerable man (alien? In the context of what people should take from the show, that's just a metaphor for alienated people who seem more extravagant, decadent, than others and 50s B Movie reference) underneath. You don't have to be homosexual to feel regret at the passing of the theatrical 'old world', essentially a blend of underclass and upper class, from which the Transylvanians come. The new world, of shining 1950s white picket fences, the middle class, is at odds with them. This implicit shift from private society to public 'democracy' shows that it was a painful one to those who had enjoyed the old, private, ways.

Superheroes isn't one of my favourite songs but it reminds the audience that the events of this film are meant to be seen, on one level, as a classical tragedy with consequences. It belongs where it is.

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Re: Anyone else think that "I'm Going Home" is not that great of a song

and yet for people who are not keen to glam rock sound, i'm going home is perfect ending

Re: Anyone else think that "I'm Going Home" is not that great of a song

It's a wonderful song, but it certainly tries to bring the audience to watch a character that was never established before, so it's attempt to drama it's silly and cheap - I feel the same way about David Bowie's character in the last act of "Labyrinth".
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