A work · 1943 · Cinema
Gigi
The song where the singer pleads to be given the exact shape a man wants: a French phrase, a café in the dark. A whole musical built around wanting to be a specific imaginary person for somebody.
The template for a large fraction of the twentieth century. Cole Porter did not invent the impulse, he published it, and the song is still the most precise description of the thing that every subsequent song about obsessive attachment is a worse version of.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
Where it sits
1900 1900-1949 · 1943 1949
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- unverifiedNo specific claim is recorded against this source. The record is a pointer to the work in general; the entry's own prose is the argument and is not sourced line by line.Porter, C. (1943). 'Gigi'.
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