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I am not that much of a classical style music fan, tending when I am in the mood toward such obvious and popular things as Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, and of course Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.

Here is the Queen of the Night aria, fabulously delivered by Diana Damrau, who not only sings it wonderfully but truly embodies the furious anger of the Queen. Love those Staccatos!

 
A parody of Be Our Guest from Disney's Beauty and the Beast titled Wear A Mask:


Might get taken down, but it's worth listening to the parody imho. I listened to it on my LiveJournal feed.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
In 1934, motion pictures in the US were hit with the Hays code, intended to eliminate ‘immoral’ and ‘indecent’ content in films. It was not just live action movies that were affected but cartoons as well. The pre-code Betty Boop was one of the major targets. Not only did she dress and act rather provocatively and her boyfriend Bimbo seemed to be some kind of animal but – and this was rarely said aloud but it was real - the cartoons promoted too much appreciation of ‘colored’ music. They were also creative, imaginative and thoroughly enjoyable for an audience happy to escape for a brief time from the sad realities of the Depression.

A prime example of what was ‘wrong’ with Betty Boop according to commissioner Hays. Enjoy.

Betty before and after the code. Bimbo was gone and so was the ‘decadent’ jazz.

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