I love I'm Going Home. The tears of a clown finally drain his make up showing the vulnerable man (alien? In the context of what people should take from the show, that's just a metaphor for alienated people who seem more extravagant, decadent, than others and 50s B Movie reference) underneath. You don't have to be homosexual to feel regret at the passing of the theatrical 'old world', essentially a blend of underclass and upper class, from which the Transylvanians come. The new world, of shining 1950s white picket fences, the middle class, is at odds with them. This implicit shift from private society to public 'democracy' shows that it was a painful one to those who had enjoyed the old, private, ways.
Superheroes isn't one of my favourite songs but it reminds the audience that the events of this film are meant to be seen, on one level, as a classical tragedy with consequences. It belongs where it is.
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