Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler: What You Must Learn

By Martin Reynolds


Well, who doesn't know this song? It's the new millennium and yet a lot of younger generation, hardly doesn't know the lyrics to the song. It's been on full throttle ever since Bonnie Tyler have debuted this song and now a major favorite in a lot of karaoke bars. However, there's definitely more to it that simply being a song and perhaps, you will never listen to the song "Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler" the same way you ever did before.

Did you know that the song "Total Eclipse of the Heart", which made such a massive radio hit in 1983 by Bonnie Tyler might potentially have pedophilia elements enveloped on it?

It is actually true, though, the song might sound innocuous enough- but heck, the public listening to it just simply love it, and still continues to play it for the nth time on various radio stations and audio players all over the globe.

The song is totally overplayed in some Asian countries too like the Philippines, but given the fact that Max Weinberg, who happens to be the musical director of the Late Night with Conan O'Brien show, and also the band leader for the Max Weinberg 7 and a resident drummer for the Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, have played the drum tracks for the song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" simply made it extremely awesome for every fanatics once again.

But do check this out: watch the musical video more closely, and check out at the different elements in it. It would appear that Bonnie Tyler is like floating around on a dream, passing through a hallway with rooms- actually, lots and lots of rooms, with so many of boys- contained in a classroom, a few bright orbs for the eyes ("bright eyes", without a doubt), others dancing around and etcetera.

As the song continues further, everybody is worked around a dancing frenzy (at least some kinds of interpretative dance), and then this teenage boy wearing only an underpants with gigantic wings growing out of his back (could be an angel), envelopes his arms around the now crying Bonnie Tyler.

Video then concludes with a scene around the steps of a private school, and we then see Bonnie Tyler's character, apparently, a grade school teacher. She gets acquaint with the boys in her class- who looks seemingly inoffensive enough- until one of them gets hold of her hand and then looks at her with...bright orbs for eyes- "Bright Eyes" Boy from the dream! Probably, the school teacher was fantasizing about her students and then the events which transpired the night that indicates it isn't really a dream.

You can read more about "Total Eclipse of the Heart" online. In the meantime,you can check your facts on a lot of sites online as well. Lyrics are provided in case you want to sing along- just for some instances. Of course, you ought to read more of them all over again and perhaps, you could find some hidden meaning behind the lyrics, now that you already have an idea what the video was all about. Again, that is Max Weinberg on drums.




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