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Cinematic sugar plums: movie songs and the visions they inspireI'm a visual person. I think in images. I can't really help it. It just happens. I'll be sitting at my desk or driving around town and something I hear will cause an image to pop into my head. Usually, such images spring to life when I hear a song from a movie soundtrack. For example, Simple Minds' "Don't You Forget About Me" causes Ally Sheedy and the Breakfast Club gang to appear in my brain. Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" causes visions of John Cusack's boom-box serenade for Ione Skye in Say Anything to dance through my memory. I try hard to avoid Celine Dion, but at least when I hear "My Heart Will Go On," Kate Winslet appears to make it all better.
The other day, while driving aimlessly about town, I was listening to one of my homemade CDs when Erasure's "A Little Respect" started playing. As always, visions of Jordana Brewster dancing with a pool cue overwhelmed my senses.
I really should keep that CD out of my car. Such images tend to make driving hazardous. In any event, it got me thinking about other tunes from lesbian-themed flicks that cause pleasant images to wander through my mind. I decided to see if I could create a playlist to keep my overactive imagination occupied for a while. Here are a few of the options I came up with. I'm hoping you can help me round out the list. I promise to keep these tunes out of the car for safe driving purposes. 1. "Mama I'm Strange" by Melissa Etheridge and "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" by Natalie Cole from If These Walls Could Talk 2
I can't imagine this will be the only Melissa Etheridge song on my list when all is said and done, but it is one of my favorites. And it's the perfect reminder of Chloe Sevigny and Michelle Williams. As for Natalie Cole, every time I hear this I not only see images of Ellen Degeneres and Sharon Stone dancing around the bathroom at the end of the movie, but I also find I have an uncontrollable urge to begin dancing like Ellen. She looks much better doing it than I do. If my cats could laugh out loud, they would. 2. "Happy Together" by the Turtles from Imagine Me and You Yes, this movie falls victim to all the pitfalls of "mainstream" romantic comedies, but that's part of the reason I love it so much. It gave us a happy ending. Girl got girl. Am I wrong to be so infinitely happy about that? Here's the trailer as a little reminder of how much fun movies can be when we don't overanalyze them. 3. "Sexy" by West End Girls and "Julie Christie" by Lorraine Bowen from Better Than Chocolate
Again, I'm a sucker for happy endings. While this movie can be a tad over the top, it was also the first lesbian movie I saw in an actual movie theater. For that reason alone, it will likely always be one of my favorites. And images of the gang lip-synching to these two tunes are definitely high on my list of things to see over and over again. 4. "A Little Respect" by Erasure from D.E.B.S. Since I've already mentioned this, I'll just be quiet now and let you watch it for yourself. I've got a pool table in my basement accompanied by the required cues. Wonder if I can get Jordana to re-create this scene for me. Submitted by on August 23, 2007 - 11:03am. |
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show me love
i want to know what love is by foreigner - playing in the background during the big 'backseat of some stranger's car' make-out scene in show me love. nothing better than some 80's monster ballad for your hitchhiking pda's.
I want you to show me.
"Bad jokes are us, ur me."
Different memory to the same song.
Wrong Song.
We meant "i want to know what love is" by Foreigner
You mean "What is Love?" by Haddaway
"Bad jokes are us, ur me."
even though it's not a mainstream song
Yes!
I can't help but giggle at most of these because I have the very same problem. Well, except for the song from Imagine Me and You because I have yet to see that movie. But I have to add Sarah McLachlan's "Ice Cream" to the Better Than Chocolate list. I can't hear that song without thinking of the end of that movie. Oh, and "Glass Vase Cello Case" by Tattle Tale from But I'm a Cheerleader.
I'm sure there are more songs that inspire visions of lesbian love stories in my head but I think you've hit on the major ones. Fun post, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am now shamed into admitting that I had forgotten all about "Ice Cream". I shall go sit in the corner and listen to it repeatedly as penance. :-)
A Little Respect ...for my singing
but im a cheerleader
Dressy Bessy
"If you should try and kiss her"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqfkc_V3ArI
Santana
Monster
Everytime I hear Dont Stop Believin on the radio.. I think of 'Monster' in the roller rink and make out scene
I love that scene in DEBS!
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Desert Hearts
In Desert Hearts, that scene when the 3 of them go into the town and there is a fight over the radio, sorry I don't know the title, but it goes something like "she is my baby..."
...and my favorite line: "better run to the record store before they sell out" :-D
desert hearts
oooooh, i love this film - i saw it at the pictures in 1987 (yes, i'm that old): went in confused, came out a lesbian! so now every time i hear the opening strains of Patsy Cline's "Leavin' On Your Mind", i'm instantly transported back to the film beginning and a train pulling in to Reno station.
and because i'm such a geek about stuff like this, the song they're listening to in the car is Gene Vincent's "Be Bop A Lula". believe me, i tried for years to make my own mixtape of the soundtrack, as it's never been available commercially!
my own favourite line from the film: "how you get all that traffic with no equipment is beyond me!".....or maybe frances' retort (to cay's overnight date saying "long time no see, ms parker"): "i'm handlin' it...."
see what you've started??!
A little respect
I think when Andy Bell sang this song at the Gay Games last year women who had seen D.E.B.S. were all reminded of Jordana lip synching to it! *sigh* I know I was :)
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." (Dr. Seuss)
There's always
yeah
plus which, I think that song was in a season 3 episode of the l word where bette took alice to the opera and got busy in the seats during that song.
anyway, that's what it makes ME think of.
I don't feel like dancing
yea
Don't forget the Prayer of St. Francis by Sarah too I wub Sarah and Buffy!
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Now if we're talking about Buffy...
Whenever I hear Goodbye To You by Michelle Branch it reminds me of the Buffy episode after the musical episode when Tara leaves Willow and Buffy and Spike hook up for the first time. It's a real heart wrenching end to the episode.
And another tv one would be Joseph Arthur's In The Sun, which always makes me think of Alice and Dana's first kiss in The L Word. This is obviously a happier memory!
Thank you!
I've never managed to find a decent-quality link of the D.E.B.S "A Little Respect" before. I will clearly use it to convert everyone I know.
Man. I loved that song even before D.E.B.S., but it's one of my favourite montages ever. The bit where Scud appears and can barely keep a straight face is hilarious.
Boys on the Side
"You Got It" by Bonnie Raitt and "Power of Two" by the Indigo Girls just take me back to the first time I saw this movie and the woman curled up on the couch with me. She had made me a VHS tape of Melissa Etheridge's VH1 Duets special followed by Boys on the Side and that was one of the most wonderful evenings we ever spent together.
I think I need to dig through my old VHS tapes and see if I can't find that one.
"Never explain, never complain." - Katherine Hepburn
Yet another thing we have in common...nogoal4u
one of my favorite things to do is..
"Beautiful" by Me'Shell
"Beautiful" by Me'Shell Ndegeocello always reminds me of love scene in "Lost and Delirious".
And, even though it's not quite "lesbian moment", when I hear "Brass in pocket" by Pretenders I automaticaly think of "Gia"... though, when I think better, in the end of that photoshoot, she does trick guys in kissing eachother, leaves them to do whatever they were going to do and makes a move on that blonde hottie... ooooh, Angelina...
Snap
Ah, Erasure.
There was a point, when I was sixteen and at the height of my D.E.B.S. obsessiveness, where my mother, younger brother and little sister all knew at least some of the words to A Little Respect by Erasure. One time we even sang it in the car, with my little sister and I attempting the dance moves.
Needless to say, that is one of the funniest montages I've ever seen. It just builds and builds in hilarity, until finally- look! She's using her thugs as back-up dancers! *grins* Best thing ever.
I do that sort of thing to
I do that sort of thing to my family all the time; they've learned by now to just roll their eyes and wait for the obsessive wave to pass over. Currently it's Hairspray -- that one's not passing any time soon.
I wish I'd known about D.E.B.S. when I was sixteen! It might have been enough to keep me away from Armageddon. (Why Armageddon? I wish I knew.) The hand moves to "we'll make love not war" with Scud shaking his head all "no no, no war for us" remain absolutely hilarious no matter how many times I see it. Well done everyone involved.
Garbage!
Although it was originally on the Rome + Juliet soundtrack (which did have some gay elements, though not of the lesbian variety), now every time I hear Garbage's "#1 Crush" I think of the British show Hex, which uses the song during opening credits.
"Out of the box is where I live." -Starbuck
Thank you
By Dido, always reminds me of the love scene between Ellen Degen and Sharon Stone in If These Walls Could Talk 2
It Feels Like I'm in Love by Kelly Marie from Imagine me and you when the girls are dancing on the dancing game
and I know its not a movie, but Heart's No Other Lover.. will always be a reminder of the time Bette and Tina got back together for the night.
and Goodbye to you by Michelle Branch from the episode of Buffy when Willow and Tara broke up :-(
A Little Respect
Yea.. had to come back to post to say... I have had this frickin song in my head ever since I read the article.. whats worse is I dont know all the lyrics so I am just repeating the same parts!
THANKS ALOT!!! :-D
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Hmmmm....
LOL
That is way too true!! I was going to name some things I wouldnt want to get stuck in my head.. but then I would probably get it stuck in my head.. so I will just fixate on happy thoughts... like Starbuck.. and SON.. Bad Girls.. <drool>
GO SABRES!!! Cant wait for hockey to start again yay!
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I'm a sucker for happy-ending lesbian flicks, too.
I love Imagine Me and You, and I adore D.E.B.S., particularly the "A Little Respect" scene. I love the part when the lyrics go "That you give me no,/That you give me no,/That you give me no,/That you give me no,/Soul..." and Lucy's friend pops up from the bottom of the screen and joins in the lip-synching. He dances like he's in a wind tunnel and it looks so epic.
I don't care how big of a super villain a girl is, if she looks like Jordana Brewster, you're insane to resist her advances.
DEBS v Charlie's Angels
have you ever seen Jordana Brewster and Kate Jackson in the same room together? i think not. proof, if any were required, that Jordana is indeed Kate's love child - either that, or somebody somewhere has finally cracked that teleporter thing they were always using in Star Trek, and they're one and the same person.....
i rest my case!
"All over me" by Danger