I am thinking of @la-pheacienne ‘s annoyance with Les Miserables the musical interspersing Marius and Cosette’s love ballad “A Heart Full of Love” with Eponine singing about how she pines after Marius. It takes the focus away from the main couple and makes it about Eponine.
I am thinking of similar scenes in my hyperfixations. It is interesting that Nihal and Behlül’s “love scene” at the Island repeatedly has Beşir cough in the background. Nihal remembers an idealized version of this scene after the fact but actually it was a stressful event for her while it was happening: She was suspicious of being fooled by Behlül, afraid of the dark and worried for Beşir. But in her memory it becomes an idyllic scene of “happy betrotheds”.
Beşir’s coughs remind us that it wasn’t meant to be an idyllic love scene.
Or for a less elegant example, in Magnificent Century the love scenes of Nigar and Ibrahim are always juxtaposed with scenes of Hatice giving birth, Hatice lonely and worried etc. Because, you know, adultery is bad 😡 (To be fair, the reverse also occasionally happens with Nigar looking sad in the love scenes of Hatice and Ibrahim).
Anyway I agree that Les Miserables the musical misstepped by centering Eponine in “A Heart Full of Love” if Marius/Cosette is meant to be a heartwarming straightforward romance.
@princesssarisa @desmoonl
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Poll list for the 70s music tourney
Round 3:
September vs Disco Inferno
Ballroom Blitz vs Rapper's Delight
The Chain vs Roxanne
Bad Girls vs Barracuda
Hotel California vs Killer Queen
Don't Fear the Reaper vs Lola
Rasputin vs Gimme Gimme Gimme
Rocketman vs Dancing in the Moonlight
Superstition vs Ain't no Sunshine
Heart of Glass vs I will Survive
Hooked on a Feeling vs Born to Run
Jolene vs Le Freak
Previous round beneath the Cut
Round 2:
(They Long to be) close to you vs Gimme Gimme Gimme
Don't Fear the reaper vs Starman
Hold the Line vs Killer Queen
Psycho killer vs The Chain
Do it again vs Lola
Renegade vs Dancing in the moonlight
Bat out of hell vs Le Freak
Disco Inferno vs Big Yellow Taxi
Have you ever seen the rain vs Hotel California
Heart of Glass vs YMCA
Ring my bell vs Roxanne
London Calling vs Bad Girls
Ain't No Sunshine vs Stayin Alive
Rasputin vs Sultans of the Swing
Barracuda vs Country roads
Hooked on a feeling vs Our House
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald vs Rapper's Delight
Black Betty vs Rocket Man
Roundabout vs Ballroom Blitz
Funkytown vs I will survive
Mr.Blue Sky vs Born to Run
September vs Piano Man
Jolene vs Dream On
Superstition vs Freebird
Round 1:
Piano Man vs Imagine
Killer Queen vs Boys don't Cry
Gimme Gimme Gimme vs Let's get it on
I Will Survive vs Carry on Wayward Son
The Chain vs Blinded by the Light
Starman vs Let it Be
Rasputin vs Stairway to Heaven
American Pie vs Take Me Home County Roads
Renegade vs Me and Bobby Mcgee
Jolene vs Brandy (you're a fine girl)
September vs The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Hotel California vs Baba O'Riley
Ballroom Blitz vs The Boys are Back in Town
Don't Fear the Reaper vs Midnight Train to Georgia
Mr. Blue Sky vs The Logical Song
Stayin Alive vs Horse with no Name
Psycho Killer vs Blitzkrieg Bop
Rocket Man vs Smoke on the Water
Heart of Glass vs Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
T. N. T. vs Black Betty
Southern Nights vs Le Freak
It's too late vs Disco Inferno
YMCA vs All Right Now
Big Yellow Taxi vs Live and Let Die
Freebird vs Detroit Rock City
Bad Girls vs Video Killed the Radio Star
I'll be there vs Ring my Bell
Rapper's Delight vs My Little Town
Dream On vs The Joker
Sultans of the Swing vs American Girl
We are Family vs Barracuda
Dancing in the moonlight vs Wheel in the sky
Escape (Pina Colada Song) vs Have you ever seen the rain
Born to Run vs Iron Man
Papa was a rolling stone vs London Calling
Hooked on a feeling vs Joy to the World
My Sharona vs Superstition
Roundabout vs Stuck in the Middle with you
LA Woman vs Roxanne
(They Long to be) Close to You vs Fire and Rain
Funky Town vs Heart of Gold
Time in a Bottle vs Our House
Ain't No Sunshine vs Anarchy in the UK
Do it again vs Just What I Needed
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald vs Cats in the Cradle
Your Mama Won't Like Me vs Bat out of Hell
Hold the Line vs Crackling Rosie
Lola vs Heartbreaker
Bonus Rounds:
All Along the Watch Tower vs More than a Feeling
8 other songs by featured artists
60s practice round
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