You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Little Shop of Horrors: Skid Row [Music][Song]
This is my favorite of your series of recomposed "Little Shop of Horrors" songs. Love the piano. To me, the heaviness of the lower register projects a feeling of bleakness. The clicks, taps, squiggly notes of a higher register adds an uneasiness. Looking forward to what you do with "Somewhere That's Green". Should be a stark contrast to this one
Yes. There is something eerily related to all of the scores in this musical I have noticed.
Each song has a sort if panic motif that comes and goes. It is like an emotional alarm that plays, forcing the listener into a position of wanting to do anything to make it stop. To me, it relates to the psychological turmoil that a person considering suicide might might be experiencing.
Don't worry! I am no depressed or suicidal. I think every sane person can relate though to the sense of panic desperation.
Some of the songs also introduce a contrasting seductive motif, as a magic remedy for the distressed listener. This is the dangerous and evil allure that death offers a person who has no more love for life.
Thankfully a third musical motif exists, which is found in Somewhere That's Green and Suddenly Seymour. Life can grow from small beginnings into a simpler life. It might not happen all at once, but gradually by being good and giving up the vices that fuel our personal demons. Seymour and Audrey provide the perfect catalyst of purity and accountability to make a loving relationship that can work.
In this song, Skid Row, it is interesting when Seymour and Audrey sing, because they are both sceaming for the same help. Ironically, the person who can best help them is standing on the other side of the corner of Skid Row. Even in darkness, a light can be found to lead us out.