The DW icon is perfect for my feelings

[chocolatepot]

I am weirdly obsessed with Sunset Boulevard these days. I used to be really indifferent to it, then I started listening - and of course, as usual for me, at first I only liked the big chorus numbers (Every Movie's a Circus, By This Time Next Year). Eventually I got a bit into With One Look, Surrender - songs with very repetitive melodies, I guess is the connector there? But because of all the talking (it's one of those whole-show-recording 2-CD sets), I never really listened to much more, until I put in this really old benefit concert recording, "Broadway Cares" (I got it for a dollar or two, it has *sigh* John Barrowman in it, also Kim Criswell) and learned about the existence of Too Much in Love to Care.


This blew me away. I think I knew that Betty and Joe fell in love eventually - narrative law - but I didn't actually hear them confess it. And, well, I love a well-done older and cynical/younger and naive romance, though I can't exactly explain what makes it well-done - I know it when I see it. And then it is so painful when he makes Betty leave and then when he dies, but in a beautiful way.

What amazes me is that usually when the male protagonist is in a bad social situation, I can only think about how it's not that bad and a female character would have it worse, but for some reason it doesn't happen at all here. Maybe because it's such a bind? He's lost his car, he's got literally no money, he knows that if he leaves she'll kill herself, and he feels sorry for her anyway ... I don't know, it really hits me.

I realize this makes me an Andrew Lloyd Webber-suckered sheep (and also sixteen), but this is one thing I am not a hipster in.