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."

 

[Mad_Jack]

Jim Steinman originally wrote Total Eclipse as part of working on a musical adaptation of the film Nosferatu that never happened, then Bonnie Tyler recorded it, and then later Steinman recycled it again when he wrote the music for Dance of the Vampires, a musical based on The Fearless Vampire Killers, directed by Roman Polanski.

 

[Bohandas]

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-)

Blood Is Life by Miss Anthropy. (Sort of. The vibe is more seduction and sex than romance. But that's adjacent.)

 

[overgeeked]

TIL Indiana Jones actually did change the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

[MarkB]

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-)

Heartbeat by The Pet Shop Boys went very vampire-themed on the music video at least, as I recall.