VVC karaoke premiere: Total Eclipse of the Heartsword

[shati]

Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Adolescence of Utena
Music: Total Eclipse of the Heart (Literal Version) by PersephoneMaewyn and dascottjr
Length: 05:32
Warnings: Strobing, everything about Utena

Here's anoooother shot of fencing.

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password: mullet with headlights

So even before the literal mv was made I've been convinced the "Total Eclipse of the Heart" music video was set in Ohtori Academy, or maybe Ohtori's Amsterdam sister school. (
skygiants was that your idea?) Then the literal version came out. Then (okay this is years later) I found out the deadline for karaoke hadn't passed yet. The path before me was prepared. I had no choice but to make sure no one at karaoke who hadn't already seen SKU would ever be able to take it seriously.

(Pan the room)
Random use of candles, empty bottles, and cloth, and can you see me through this fan?
(Slow-mo dove)
Creepy doll, a window, and what looks like a bathrobe, then a dim-lit shot of dangling balls
(Metaphor?)
Close-up of some candles and dramatically posing then stock footage of a moon in the sky
(Bottle shot)

Messing up my close-up with a floating blue curtain, now let's see who's coming in from outside
(Double doors open)
Why aren't I reacting in this shot?
(Ringo Starr, lined eyes)
Guess I should be acting, but I'm not
(Doors ajar)

Wander through a hall with doors that magically open, and this classroom has a fan
(Open shirts)
Now it's getting creepy, you can tell by my staring it's a long time since I've been with a man
(Stupid chair)
Emo kid is throwing slow-mo dove at my face, I guess that means that he just flipped me the bird
(Locker room)
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl
(Spin around, ninjas)
Then a bunch of preppies make a toast
(Drinking wine, douchebags)
Most of it just ends up on the floor
And they shouldn't fence at night, or they're gonna hurt the gymnast
And why do they play football inside?
Here's another shot of fencing.
And I've mostly been lit from behind
Watch some shadows run off

I walk onto a terrace where I think I'm alone
But Arthur Fonzarelli's got an army of clones
(Fonzie's been cloned)
They do the macarena but I'm still not impressed
They beg for me to dance with them, but not in this dress
I'll pose like Rocky tonight!
I'm running up a bunch of stairs
Strip football, and surprise mirror
Here's where I pretend to be Eva Peron
Look at me I'm lifting my arms
There's nothing else to shoot, so zoom camera under this arch

Leaning on myself, cause there's two of me here
But now there's only one in this shot
I pull my feathered hair whenever I see floating cloth

Blind possessed choirboys
Get out of my way, I gotta pee!
Zombie cult
ZoAHHH flying altar boys
Never mind, I just went on the floor
Now I need to find a mop
Look at me now
Emo kid wears too much makeup
Now watch a bunch of half-naked guys
Hairless chests
As they dance around in diapers
And I've joined the glee club of the damned
Reference joke!
Look the fog machine's on

What kind of private school would let in these kind of guys?
It started out as Hogwarts, now it's Lord of the Flies
(I hated that book)
I'm swaying side to side, these dancers need to stop
The gayest man on earth would call this over the top
I whip my head to the right
I'll never go to church again
I think I lost a contact lens...
When did spazzing out qualify as a dance?
Kneeling like I want to throw up.
What the effing crap, that angel guy just felt me up.

Here's a line of guys, I was wearing a dress
But now they've got me wearing a suit
One kid's running late, I think he's too young for this school
I'm totally shaking his hand
Mullet with headlights
Over-surprised guy
Weirded out

Thank you to
agonistes and
skygiants for persistently believing this was a good idea in any way, and to
revolutionaryjo for singing with me. And to Bonnie Tyler for setting her music video in Ohtori but why. ಠ_ಠ

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