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The Life of a Showgirl
Identity, spectacle, and constructed self
A continuation of performance as theme, but refracted through persona and image. The songs engage with identity as something shaped in public — constructed, observed, and continuously rewritten.
Songs
12 tracks
Patterns in this era
Motifs & Symbols
Hands · Jewels · Door / Threshold · War / Battle · Dancing · Road · Flowers · Bed
Themes
Business or Industry · Female experience · Redemption · Revenge · What Might Have Been · Grief · Familial wisdom · Memory
Literary Devices
Figurative Language · Rhetorical Device · Sound Device · Narrative Device · Language & Diction
Literary References in this era
26 references
Macbeth
Allusion
Rapunzel
Thematic echo
Ophelia (painting by John Everett Millais)
Allusion · Thematic echo
Romeo and Juliet
Thematic echo
Pretty Woman
Thematic echo
A Star Is Born
Thematic echo
Goodfellas (1990)
Thematic echo
Faust
Thematic echo
You're So Vain
Allusion
About Time (2013)
Thematic echo
Possession
Thematic echo
Father Figure (George Michael song)
Allusion
The Freshman (1990)
Thematic echo
The Spider and the Fly
Allusion
Ophelia (painting by Friedrich Heyser)
Allusion
The Lady of Shalott
Allusion · Thematic echo
Ulysses and the Sirens
Allusion
Hamlet
Allusion · Structural echo · Thematic echo · Quote
West Side Story
Thematic echo
All About Eve (1950)
Thematic echo · Allusion
The Godfather (1972)
Thematic echo · Allusion
Hamlet
Thematic echo
Father Figure (George Michael song)
Homage
Desolation Row
Thematic echo
Brooklyn (2015)
Thematic echo
Rags to riches (Horatio Alger tradition)
Allusion