Today I learned +

[Ryujin]

TIL that Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a vampire love song. Yes, a love song about vampires.

 

[MoonSong]

TIL that Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a vampire love song. Yes, a love song about vampires.

Yeah, I knew, even before actually learning. During to my "vampire loving" phase -you know, when you just feel like you have to devour Anne Rice's books and wear black- I was primed to ve receptive to vampire subtext. And the song isn't exactly subtle. When I saw this fact in a listicle, my reaction was " yay validation!".

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah, I knew, even before actually learning. During to my "vampire loving" phase -you know, when you just feel like you have to devour Anne Rice's books and wear black- I was primed to ve receptive to vampire subtext. And the song isn't exactly subtle. When I saw this fact in a listicle, my reaction was " yay validation!".

I never really sat down with the lyrics before and it doesn't hit that note nearly as hard as something like "Moon over Bourbon Street."

 

[MoonSong]

I never really sat down with the lyrics before and it doesn't hit that note nearly as hard as something like "Moon over Bourbon Street."

There's unsubtle, and there's blatant... n_n

I wonder how many more vampire romance songs are out there? ( I can think of Vampire Heart -HIM-, Broken -Sonata Arctica- and Love song for a Vampire - Annie Lenox-)

 

[Ryujin]

There's unsubtle, and there's blatant... n_n

I wonder how many more vampire romance songs are out there? ( I can think of Vampire Heart -HIM-, Broken -Sonata Arctica- and Love song for a Vampire - Annie Lenox-)

The only one that comes immediately to mind is "Bela Lugosi's Dead", by Bauhaus, which was used in the movie "The Hunger."