For context: Rocky Horror was a once-ever studio-backed counter culture film adapted from a fringe play with a "let's put on a show guys!" energy using the perfect cast and crew. A paradox of a time capsule now: 50s sexual repression, rock music, and sci-fi through the lens of 70's America. It's dated in some ways, but a completely impractical work of art that feels as alive now as it ever did.
fun fact: the stage was incredibly slippery because everyone was wet. they had heaters in tents for between takes that eventually set the tents on fire and susan sarandon had pneumonia the whole time.
but god fucking dammit it’s a perfect number.
Dolly Parton reveals that the real Jolene was actually just a little red-headed girl asking for an autograph.
“There was a little girl at one of our shows. She was a little red-headed girl, pretty as she could be. She came up to get an autograph.”
“She said, ‘Would you sign it to Jolene?’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s a pretty name, I’m gonna write a song about you.’”
“I said, ‘If you ever hear a song on the radio called Jolene, you’ll know it’s about you.’”
“I got back to the bus and I was singing, ‘Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene’ just so I wouldn’t forget the name.”
“That’s why the whole chorus is pretty much just saying the word Jolene.”
Rubén Rada musicalizó un corto que lo pasaban en la tele y que si,era lindo al principio pero el final fue uno de los primeros cachetazos de realidad que recibí en mi vida y en plena época de crisis del 2001.
Cómoseah se nos fue un grande de la musica 🫶🏾
Hate that we live in a timeline where Miss Piggy has to post Instagram tributes to a bestie (Dolly Parton) and an ex-lover (Tim Curry) within a 24-hour span