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The Vampire Lestat ✮ Big Bad Wolf ✮ Live at Beacon Theatre in NY ✮ - Lyrics Breakdown

Nope, y'all can keep this one, fam. 🤷‍♂️ It's that grunge/punk rock I have no desire for. 🙅🛑 Which is a real shame, cuz the lyrics are great; I love a petty AF diss track, and trust: Lestat's being petttyyyyyy. 😈👌

As usual, thanks to Genius!

"Died a monster just like my father"

Murder Night ("the HORROR that had been Lestat....the THING lay still"). Yeah. I hope that sat with him for a good long while: ("I thought of this often in the coffin. That you left me. And I've thought of this in the years since. I will always be sorry for what I did to you.").

And I can't WAIT to see the Marquis in action & how he died, since he got his throat slit & decapitated too--cycles are cycling, like Jam said!

Oh yeah, he's talking to Louis.

I BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS NOW! (x x) Louis' self-loathing & low self-esteem made it impossible for him to even accept the flawed love Lestat gave him, let alone return it. Neither of them were READY to be in that relationship.

🤔 Yeah, I can see why Lestat would think that. He's wrong though. Louis never wanted him to be anyone else. Louis wanted Lestat to be precisely who Lestat presented himself as: A FRIEND. His BEST friend.

I wonder if Lestat even knows about DreamStat, and just how badly Louis missed him; missed having his confidant, his ally, his sounding board, his guiding light, his mentor, his lover, his HUSBAND. So many people keep saying that Louis presented Lestat incorrectly, and I'm like HOW?! 🤨

Murder Night, and ofc the book.

(Has it been confirmed that the long-alleged Murder Night Revisit actually happened or not? Is it still up in the air about hows much of that was lies?)

The book, ofc. What I love about this song is that Anne Rice's TVC was always framed as stories about vampires from the villain's perspective. Humanizing the monster by getting his side of the story--not that it matters, really, cuz first impressions are everything. (Kudos to TheVampireCaspian for spotting the Love Me boots!)

Lestat is desperate for love, but he will always carry the stains on his image because of the book; and on the meta level because of S1 (esp. 1x5 & possibly even 2x7). Lestans can call Louis "the lying aggressor who kindled/instigated the fight" all they want; they'll always be stuck in the trenches defending their uwu blorbo from every new viewer who walks into S1 and sees Lestat's heinous behavior thru Louis & Claudia's eyes FIRST. 😬 Did Louis lie about being Dropped? Exactly. 😤

Sure, Lestat gets the last word, and will be forgiven by those who want to forgive him--but for others, his so-called "Rewrite" just contextualizes the monster, it can never excuse/absolve him the way Lestans want it to. The Big Bad Wolf is STILL called the Big Bad Wolf for a reason; eff what he said to defend himself later. 🤷‍♂️

And Lestat KNOWS that; and he's frustrated AF about it as he tries to clear his name--or realizes/resigns himself that actually he CAN'T:

"Now I'm the big bad wolf f**king everyday, oh I'm the Big Bad Wolf."

I think the lyrics are wrong here--it's probably "You tell / told the tale"?

[EDIT] Someone on Reddit has different lyrics that make way more sense (thanks byronicbisexuals for the heads up!):

"All of your stories with their tiny holes"

Like I keep saying: does Lestat know about Armand wiping Louis' memory, and lying about "Banishment"? 🤨 Cuz he seems hella uninformed his dang self about WHY Louis told the tale in the first place.

"Half the truth is worse than no truth at all."

🤔🤔🤔 I guess????? Cuz yeah, it would probably be easier if the whole thing was just straight up fiction, where Lestat could toss the whole thing in the trash and say with confidence that 0% of the book is true at all. But it's killing him that there IS truth in the book. Again, Rolin repeatedly said 70-85% of Louis' version is TRUE. Lestat's going crazy over the 30-15% giving him an ulcer because that's where Louis does call him The Devil he sold his soul to, damning himself to Hell for the love of someone who HE THOUGHT didn't love him back. So Lestat's beating at the windows screaming I DID LOVE YOU, WITH ALL OF MYSELF! 😭

TL;DR: YMMV

The official release has more parts in the spoken verse/rant, the first half of which I've already covered:

This part's the same, but then it changes.

Lestat is LITERALLY Vampire Fabio, like bffr. 🤣😂

I already explained that Dreamstat telling Louis about the monogrammed handkerchief is exactly the same as him eating the bad photographs--what Louis WANTED Lestat to do for him, not what was actually true.

Lestat is STILL calling Louis "an insane person" -- well, I'm glad he at least consistently realizes Louis IS mentally ill (Lestat clearly has a type--or rather: HE drives his lovers insane!).

Too bad he never once in his life RESPECTED Louis' struggles--like I BEEN SAID about him. 😒

Once again going on & on about the Train Scene--I don't care what he said or didn't say. The fact that she ran away at all tells me everything I ever needed to know about Lestat. He's busy insulting his soulmate's mental illness, yet acts like he's oh-so-above mocking his daughter's rape--bish, please spare me. 🙄

"You cancerous jackal" -- Huh. Well, if Louis' a cancerous jackal, that makes Lestat a toxic radioactive son-of-a-LITERAL-b*tch; so....? Pot meets kettle. 🤷‍♂️ Go run back to the dog house Louis kicked you to the curb in 80yrs ago, and go kiss your mother with that mouth, Lestat. 👎

i'm addicted to s1 & s2's constant references to books, theatre, and art. i'm so in love with the high level of detail that went into recreating 1910-1940 NOLA and 1940s Paris--from the immaculate set designs to the beautiful costumes, this show is on another level. 😍

and there's something for everybody, because s3 is crammed full of references to modern music, fashion, pop culture, and more.

Jacob: Oh yeah, Louis is struggling. It's hard because the bulk of Louis's story is under wraps. And I think that's good because, what we do with it is surprising. But you know when you find a thing, like you just started yoga, or something that can keep you grounded in some way, and you keep that consistent, and keep it measured and regulated, that's amazing. But I think that, to some extent--because the interview was only 10 or 11 days--he found all these things about himself, and come to these conclusions, he's almost deliriously decided that 'I'm One now, I've found the thing' and almost overdosed on hope. So I always thought of him like, he found a purpose, but some of the scaffolding underneath the purpose isn't like... all there. And he's kind of gone the wrong way about putting a neat bow on his story. And it gets really unhealthy. There's some really uncomfortable stuff this season. [And that's oddly very human. So many of us try to present that way, but in reality something is bubbling under that isn't perfect. But we don't always want to address that or show that] Yeah. I also don't want to put a damper on self improvement, but you do see it in life that, "I've done all these things to better myself, I've come to terms with myself." But they don't do the work to address how the other version of themselves may have affected other people whom they love. Some people I'm like, that person was trash that person was creating a bad energy in your life, but you have to check in on people too... that was something with Louis that like, he really hurt Lestat in the book. Human beings aren't neat, and that means vampires are definitely not neat.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

IWTVL S3 Ep2 Musings - Pimping Daniel & Sam: Loustat's Vampiric Nature of Exploitation

I think I get what's going on with Louis hiring Sam as his DJ.

Which is why Lestat's hypocrisy is making my blood boil, because he's got some nerve.

As an artist, music is Lestat's outlet/distraction/opiate, so he exploits Daniel to keep his rock star career successful--the one thing he has left.

As a capitalist, money is Louis' outlet/distraction/opiate, so he exploits Sam to keep his real estate career successful--the one thing he has left.

Oh, so Lestat can cart Daniel around like a dog on a chain making the documentary specifically designed to rewrite Louis/Daniel's book and make Louis look like an even bigger evil liar; knowing full well that his pet lackey Daniel's working for the exact same Talamsacan agency that sent Sam to sabotage/destroy the coven that killed Claudia and tortured--and lynched & almost killed Louis (burying him alive; "eternity in a box"). The SAME agency about to sic Louis on the Fang Gang like an attack DOG and put him in danger--but they're not talking to LESTAT asking him to risk HIS neck, are they?

But how DARE Louis lock The Vampire Sam in perpetual indentured servitude to him, DJing at all the clubs Louis owns around the world?!

Louis is NOT forgiving Sam, let alone befriending Sam. Last time I checked, Sam wasn't butt naked in Louis' hotel room, flirting with his mother & feeding from his social media manager with impunity!? Who did that I wonder, repeat the name~!? 🤨

So how TF is Lestat gonna sit Louis' face talking about being with Armand (based on a SEISMIC LIE BTW) as if Louis was willingly/knowingly with the perpetrator candoodling with his victim Louis--when DANIEL is busy canoodling with Lestat and his whole entourage?! Isn't Lestat a victim of Daniel's book being published?! Yes or no! Quickly!

Oh! So when LESTAT does monstrous things it's: Teeheehee how fun & camp & c*nt vampires are monsters~! But when LOUIS dishes back as good as he receives and does the exact same thing, IRL journalists call Jacob/Louis a "d*ck" to his face?! 🤔

When Armand said that I was like talk about the pot calling the kettle black!? 🤨 Mr. I Could Not Prevent It, when you LITERALLY could prevent all of it. Mr. "Banishment", Mr. "I care for him more than he cares for himself", Mr. "I protect him from himself, always have," Mr. "I will not harm you. And I never have." 🙄😒

And lord, don't even get me started on what Armand did to Claudia/Larry (AND Alex)! 💀

If Louis' "methodically cruel," then Armand is QUITE LITERALLY the Devil himself.

ROTTEN BOY. 💯

i'm sorry but uh, why do black characters have to be perfect? compared to most of the characters on the show, including the white characters, she's already an angel, but you object to them making her flawed?

Your complaints read as being upset that a character who says offensive things we're meant to find offensive said an offensive thing, and being upset that other black characters have flaws.

Jacob said that he loved that black characters on this show are allowed to have flaws and be monstrous sometimes. Not everything needs to be "good representation"

black characters do not have to be perfect, in fact i love when they're flawed, it gives them depth and makes them even more interesting to watch and discuss—however, you see no issue in the way both of the black women shown thus far have been written? what do we know about dee aside from her being fed on and fucked by lestat/whoever else he decides he wants that night? what do we know about regina aside from her being a sex worker with mountains of debt and a criminal record that clearly needs money? the black women in this show are just being used as tools to further the story for the men (oftentimes the white men), and that ties back to the previous episode with louis reading claudia's diary to her rapist and her only being raped in the first place because the white show runner believed it'd toughen her up.

louis' character has just been one humiliation after another in regards to people that are supposed to be his friends or at least care about him some small amount (but even that is questionable). he is mocked by lestat, disrespected by daniel and received no apology from armand, and i hear that it doesn't get much better. jacob literally said that he felt like he was playing a different character this season and i don't disagree.

beyond that, having flawed black characters is pointless when half of the viewers engaging with them are either racist, know nothing about antiblack writing/misogynoir, or just have a fundamental misunderstanding of the characters to begin with. and obviously don't care to look into why it's fucked up to have a black character referred to as "a bucket of fried chicken" or be nothing more than a financially unstable sex worker so we can understand why they'd pretend to be someone's dead daughter. why couldn't regina just be fucked up and into that? why is financial desperation tied to these black women?