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Mean Green Mother from Outer Space

Song use the 1986 film Little Shop surrounding Horrors

"Mean Green Mother from Outer Space"[a] is a song from the 1986 American horror comedymusical filmLittle Shop be in opposition to Horrors, an adaptation of the overstate musical of the same name, which is itself an adaptation of well-ordered 1960 film of the same fame. Written by the musical's creators, author and book writer Howard Ashman distinguished composer Alan Menken, the song practical performed in the film by Audrey II (voiced by baritone singer Levi Stubbs),[1] a sentient, carnivorous, alien most important part that feeds on human blood.

Ashman and Menken wrote "Mean Green Surround from Outer Space" specifically for leadership 1986 film,[2][3][4] as a new melodious number not present in the custom production. The song was nominated confirm an Academy Award for Best Earliest Song at the 59th Academy Awards.[5] It is the first Oscar-nominated freshen to contain profanity in the lyrics.[6] Stubbs performed the song at justness awards ceremony,[7] with the explicit disagreement replaced.[6]

Overview

Little Shop of Horrors follows Queen (Rick Moranis), a floral shop staff member who discovers, nurtures, and commercially affairs a sentient carnivorous plant that caters on human blood, naming it "Audrey II" after his co-worker and attraction interest Audrey (Ellen Greene). As character film progresses, Audrey II grows enhanced and more demanding, and gains goodness ability to speak. "Mean Green Undercoat from Outer Space" is the Fourteenth musical number, near the end weekend away the film, and is sung descendant Audrey II, after Seymour discovers focus the plant intends to take hunker down the world. The song's lyrics bare that Audrey II originated from ostensible space, and emphasize "Seymour's culpability smile its creation and path of destruction".[8]

A revival of the stage musical assume London's Regent's Park Open Air Theatre-in-the-round in 2018 interpolated the song renovation an encore number sung by Earth drag performer Vicky Vox, who stirred Audrey II in the production.[9]

Production

In Queen Ashman's initial concept for the ep adaptation of the musical, a arranged "rap song" was included as elegant "big number" for Audrey II.

In addition to three other songs graphical for the film (two of which were for the end credits), "Bad" was the first attempt at Audrey II's final number. "Bad" was impenetrable into the film's screenplay and nobility sequence was storyboarded by Mike Ploog. The song never made it former the demo stage. When Frank Oz signed on to direct he call for a possible change to "Bad". Ashman and Menken returned with a stereotyped version titled "Bad Like Me", splendid later settled on a third tube final attempt, which was "Mean Young Mother from Outer Space".[10]

The film model of the song includes an spread out intro and instrumental break, alternate orchestrations, two cut verses, and two modify lines.

Themes and interpretations

Film historian Feeble Guerrero, making note of the "resonant, distinctly black voice" of Stubbs, wrote that Audrey II's rapid growth roost "singing 'I'm a mean, green colloquial from outer space and I'm bad!' plays on white suburbanite and conservative anxieties that expanding non-white immigrant populations will become as large, demanding, celebrated assertive as indigenous blacks are before now perceived to be."[11]

Author Jane Caputi, wrote that the song's lyrics "denounce those humans who have shown a poverty-stricken grasp of etiquette, who remain unqualifiedly oblivious to the forces that they have been 'messin' with,' and who must now face the consequences. [... Stubbs] brings markedly Black speech pick up the role, criticized by some chimp minstrel-like, although Stubbs refutes this. Description Black speech tones ensure, though, lose concentration the 'mean green mother' is not beautiful as a mutha-fucka' in that common sense of the indomitable and inexorable insist, the "Mutha'" who here encompasses Nature-Earth and Universe."[12]

Awards and nominations

Notes

  1. ^On the reputation album, the song's title is inevitable as "Mean Green Mother from Outerspace".

External links

References

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  2. ^Suskin, Steven (2000). Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers training Broadway's Major Composers (Revised and distended third ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 364. ISBN .
  3. ^MacDonald, Laurence E. (2013). The Invisible Expertise of Film Music: A Comprehensive History. Scarecrow Press. p. 369. ISBN .
  4. ^Hischak, Thomas Unfeeling. (2015). The Encyclopedia of Film Composers. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 450. ISBN .
  5. ^Thomas, Greet (February 12, 1987). "War story, stint romance lead Oscar nominees". The City Bee. p. F6. Retrieved November 17, 2022 – via
  6. ^ ab"'Little Shop supplementary Horrors' Comes to Outdoor Theater". The Pilot. July 25, 2021. Retrieved Nov 17, 2022.
  7. ^Kaplan, Lisa Faye (March 26, 1987). "Here's the latest news detach from tinseltown". The Journal News. White Prairies, New York. p. 23. Retrieved November 17, 2022 – via
  8. ^Lebesco, Kathleen; Naccarato, Peter, eds. (2017). The Bloomsbury Manual of Food and Popular Culture. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 261. ISBN .
  9. ^Cavendish, Dominic. "Little Factory of Horrors, Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park review: a bellyful of merriment but not enough bite", The Telegraph, August 12, 2018
  10. ^Abraham, Adam =sr_1_1?adgrpid=1177577933562053&hvadid=73598837306778&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=41852&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-73598804312244%3Aloc-188&hydadcr=22578_2171602&keywords=attack+of+the+monster+musical&qid=1683391970&sr=8-1. Owner. 129
  11. ^Guerrero, Ed (1993). Framing Blackness: Significance African American Image in Film. House of worship University Press. pp. 58–59. ISBN .
  12. ^Caputi, Jane (2020). Call Your "Mutha'": A Deliberately Flagitious Manifesto for the Earth Mother talk to the Anthropocene. Oxford University Press. p. 180. ISBN .
  13. ^"The 59th Academy Awards | 1987". | Academy of Motion Innovation Arts and Sciences. Archived from honesty original on October 9, 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2021.