Frenesi

[Paul DiFilippo]

I just had occasion to listen to the big band tune "Frenesi", and
I wish there was some way of sending a soundbite of it to everyone
on the list.  I venture to say that a few notes played to anyone
over a certain age will immediately bring the whole tune to mind.
For me, it conjures up the Forties, some mythical Latin America, 
cartoons, lounge lizards, old movies, etc.  Now, here's my 
observation:  What made TRP pick such an innocent, lilting,
starry-eyed melody for the name of a majorly fucked-up gal?  It
seems utterly incongruous.  The only strategy I can discern (and
this might be a direct homage) is the way Terry Gilliam chose 
a similarly "sweet" song, "Brazil", to apply to a black dystopia.

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