lies: shipwreckedcomedy: Saturday’s Clue. For every day…
lies:
Saturday’s Clue. For every day between now and Monday 4/28, we’ll be reblogging a post that contains a clue related to our upcoming musical parody project and tagging it “shipwrecked puzzles”.
I have to confess: This clue has upended my previous idea, and left me (temporarily) stumped. I’ve got a few ideas, but they’re going to take some research.
I’m confident I’ll be able to figure it out. I just need some time.
Okay; I finally got it. Whew. I apologize for how long it took. I guess I owe you an explanation.
Basically, I set off on a couple of false leads before I figured it out. The first thing I thought was, okay: They reblogged this from @eyrequotes. That’s probably a clue. Jane’s postings to her tumblr often anticipate some development that shows up in her ensuing video, so I figured I’d check for the next video of Jane’s after she posted this item to see if it contained any obvious musical reference. Jane posted this on December 20, 2013, which was a Friday. Her next video, which went up the next day, was Episode 53, “Teenagers”. I immediately thought: oh, of course. It’s a reference to The Who’s ‘Baba O’Riley’, with its iconic “teenage wasteland” lyric.
The more I thought about it, though, the more trouble I had picturing Sinead singing “Baba O’Riley”. We’ve seen the stills from the shoot, and something about the flowers, the lacy dress, and those dangling keys just doesn’t quite work in the context of that song. So I took another look.
Maybe the fact that this was reblogged from Jane was a red herring. Yulin is sneaky that way. So I examined the gif more closely, and noticed something I hadn’t before: The character who speaks these lines is named Victoria. And she’s speaking to another character named Victor. I immediately thought of Victor/Victoria, the classic Blake Edwards comedy from 1982. There’s that beautiful song “Crazy World” that Julie Andrews sings in it. It would be perfect for Sinead to sing in the video. And if you watch it in the movie, it’s actually shot like a slow-motion version of a classic Yulin spinny kiss. I thought for sure I had it that time.
I’ve been wrong a few times already, though, so I gave it one more look, just to be sure, and that’s when the truth hit me. I’d been on the right track, but just went a little astray at the last step. Anyway, now that I know what it is, I’m so looking forward to hearing and seeing Sinead’s interpretation on Monday. It’s such a beautiful song, and I know she’s going to do a great job with it.
I’ll post what it is in a second, just so I don’t spoil anyone who wants to be surprised. I’ll also explain how I figured it out, though it’s pretty obvious in hindsight.
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