I probably say this every time I post a song from Little Shop Of Horrors - and that's going to be quite a few posts, because it's full of really good songs - but every time I watch the movie I wonder if I am somehow lowbrow or devoid of artistic sentiment for not appreciating the ending to the stageshow that they had to reshoot for the movie, but what can I tell ya. I don't appreciate endings where everyone dies. So boo sucks to them, it got reshot and now it's a fun movie*. I know there are arguments to be made. I know there are people who will shake their heads with scorn when I say, you know what, I prefer the Disney version of The Little Mermaid to the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. But somehow I don't care. I like fiction to make me happy. Sure you need pathos and drama and tragedy inside a story to make it interesting, but in the end, it's gotta turn out nice or I wasted my time. I don't need fiction to make me feel bad. Reality does that just fine. Fun fact: Little Shop Of Horrors and The Little Mermaid have the same song writing team.
*Apparently the phrase is actually 'yah boo sucks' but I have never heard the 'yah' part in addition to the 'to you' part and now these are just meaningless sounds anyway so I forgot what I'm talking about.
Da-Doo from Little Shop Of Horrors
Performed by Rick Moranis, Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks and Tisha Campbell
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